Baby Boomers and Exercise
A recent survey of 1,443 consumers by CareCloud Corp., a developer of cloud-based healthcare technology for doctors, found 62% of Baby Boomers use the web to access and update their electronic health records. The percentage was significantly higher than older users and younger users. An article on InternetHealthManagement.com said, “Boomers are the group most likely to take advantage of digital […]
World’s Smallest Pacemaker
Medical technology marches on, it seems faster than ever. The Medtronic Micra® Transcatheter Pacing System (TPS) – the world’s smallest pacemaker – was approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in April 2016. Two electrophysiologists Jersey Shore University Medical Center implanted the device in a patient with bradycardia, a condition of slow heart rate which can […]
3-D Printing with Stem Cells
The ultimate potential for 3-D printing is printing large tissues and organs. People die waiting for an organ transplant, and 3-D printing could ultimately prevent lost lives. The potential may be sooner than expected. An Israeli 3-D printer firm, Nano Dimension, has successfully lab-tested a 3-D bio-printer using human stem cells as the ink. 3-D printers are […]
How Millennials Are Changing Health Care
The Advisory Board reported millennials (those born between 1981 and 1997) are now the largest living generation in the United States. The Pew Research Center said the U.S. now includes 75.4 million millennials , compared to 74.9 million baby boomers. Young immigrants will cause the number to grow larger. Healthcare providers have focused on the older, less-healthy generations which tend […]
‘Facebooking’ your doctor’s appointment
Agostina Giorgio of the Polytechnic University of Bari in Italy has published a very interesting paper about telehealth. The paper is “Social networks, apps and smartphones for telemedicine”. Giorgio sees telehealth as a nearly all inclusive solution for a large number of people. He has created an app called Care-App which allows private and secure communication between […]
