Withings U-Scan: Measuring Waste for Health Benefits at Home
Public health agencies have come to understand the immense value of monitoring waste water, as demonstrated by a recent report calling for its expansion. But Withings allows you to measure your own waste products in the home through a new product called U-Scan.
At CES 2023, Julius Dewavrin, Product Manager for U-Scan, explained how U-Scan works and the kinds of health benefits it can provide. More than 3000 components are packed into a disk you can hold in your hand. Just install the device inside the toilet bowl and choose the tests you want it to perform. These include logging your menstrual cycle by detecting hormones i...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - February 1, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andy Oram Tags: Clinical Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System LTPAC Telemedicine and Remote Monitoring CES CES 2023 CES2023 Healthcare IT Video Interviews Julius Dewavrin Remote Patient Monitoring RPM U-Scan Withings Wome Source Type: blogs
Data Privacy Day 2023: Where Data Privacy Policy Stands at the Start of 2023?
Jennifer HuddlestonSaturday, January 28 is Data Privacy Day.These days, Data Privacy Day can feel more like (the classic film) Groundhog Day with each passing year seeing more of the same doubling down on problematic policy trends. The state patchwork of data privacy laws continues to grow, a more regulatory European approach impacts companies and consumers well beyond its borders, and Congress tries but fails to advance a federal framework despite bipartisan support. The policy debate over data privacy may be less prominent in headlines than other tech policy topics, but it remains critically important to both innovators ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - January 27, 2023 Category: American Health Authors: Jennifer Huddleston Source Type: blogs
Data Privacy Day 2023: Where Data Privacy Policy Stands at the Start of 2023
Jennifer HuddlestonSaturday, January 28 is Data Privacy Day.These days, Data Privacy Day can feel more like (the classic film) Groundhog Day with each passing year seeing more of the same doubling down on problematic policy trends. The state patchwork of data privacy laws continues to grow, a more regulatory European approach impacts companies and consumers well beyond its borders, and Congress tries but fails to advance a federal framework despite bipartisan support. The policy debate over data privacy may be less prominent in headlines than other tech policy topics, but it remains critically important to both innovators ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - January 27, 2023 Category: American Health Authors: Jennifer Huddleston Source Type: blogs
Kami Vision: Detecting and Reporting Elderly Falls
Because of numerous medical conditions affecting the elderly and disabled, falls are among the biggest hazards of aging. They lead to such traumas as hip fractures, which can launch an irreversible decline in functioning, head injuries, and even death.
Kami Vision provides technology called KamiCare that helps caregivers in an eldercare community or a person’s home detect and respond quickly to a fall. AI, running right in Kami Vision’s camera, detects falls and reports them to caregivers selected by an app.
The system allows sophisticated choices of how to send messages, and when to notify additional persons i...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - January 26, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andy Oram Tags: AI/Machine Learning Clinical Health IT Company Healthcare IT IT Infrastructure and Dev Ops LTPAC Telemedicine and Remote Monitoring Ajay Gulati CES CES 2023 Fall Risk Healthcare Fall Detection Healthcare IT Video Interviews Healt Source Type: blogs
Lucia Savage Discusses Highlights of the Upcoming Health Datapalooza
The Health Datapalooza conference is a unique annual event. As the playful name suggests, it’s a somewhat countercultural happening, a place for freewheeling and respectfully critical discussion among health data experts. The conference was launched in 2010 by Todd Park, a ground-breaking technologist who was CTO of HHS at the time and was later promoted to be CTO of the United States.
Lucia Savage, Chair of the AcademyHealth Committee on Advocacy and Public Policy and Chief Privacy and Regulatory Officer at Omada Health, explains how, in contrast to most health care conferences, the Datapalooza is “not glitzy&...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - January 24, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andy Oram Tags: Analytics/Big Data Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Interoperability Regulations Academy Health Healthcare Data Healthcare IT Video Interviews Healthdatapalooza Lucia Savage Omada Health Todd Park Source Type: blogs
