What If Amazon Ran Hospitals?
What if Dr. Alexa offered you the next appointment with your doctor in the Amazon Clinic? What if you could buy your prescription drugs in Amazon’s online pharmacy? What if you could get your personalized plaster cast from the 3D Printing Department? In light of the recent moves of Amazon and other tech giants in the healthcare field, we imagined what it would look like if Amazon operated an entire hospital.
Tech giants move into healthcare
Facebook, Google, and Amazon are aiming for new horizons. The playfield must be too small for them solely on the technology markets. They certainly have the capacity to move into n...
Source: The Medical Futurist - January 30, 2018 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Future of Medicine Healthcare Design 3d printing amazon artificial intelligence digital health digital technology Innovation Personalized medicine wearables Source Type: blogs
5 common problems that can mimic ADHD
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Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD, is very common — according to the most recent statistics, one in 10 children between the ages of 4 and 17 has been diagnosed with this problem. So it’s not surprising that when parents notice that their child has trouble concentrating, is more active or impulsive than other children, and is having trouble in school, they think that their child might have ADHD.
But ADHD isn’t the only problem that can cause a child to have trouble with concentration, behavior, or school performance. There are actually lots of problems that can cause symp...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - January 9, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Claire McCarthy, MD Tags: Behavioral Health Children's Health Mental Health Parenting Source Type: blogs
Health 2.0 Fall Conference: SleepTech Summit Exhibit Hall Companies
A unique track at this year’s Health 2.0 Fall Conference is a SleepTech Summit focusing on innovations that enhance or improve a person’s ability to achieve a quicker, longer, and more refreshing sleep. As part of the main exhibit hall, six sleep-related companies were demoing their devices and technologies, and Medgadget had a chance to hold short interviews with each one.
In addition to these six technology companies, Sleep-Geek was also in attendance. Sleep-Geek is a website and online community founded in 2010 with a mission to serve the mattress industry by connecting members with ideas that serve their profes...
Source: Medgadget - October 5, 2017 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Michael Batista Tags: Exclusive Medicine Neurology OTC Psychiatry Source Type: blogs
15 years of blogging – exercise and weight loss
If anyone out there has followed this blog for the full 15 years, they will know that I have written about exercise and weight loss often. One stimulus involved my own journey to finally have extremely successful weight loss (starting Memorial Day weekend 2013) of 35-40 pounds. The weight loss took a year and I can safely brag that my weight this morning was at the level when I declared victory!
My writings, readings and personal experience have taught me much. Weight loss requires persistence, a great game plan, and perhaps some good genetic fortune. Weight loss maintenance requires the same things.
What follows i...
Source: DB's Medical Rants - July 19, 2017 Category: Internal Medicine Authors: rcentor Tags: Medical Rants Source Type: blogs
6 Ways To Satisfy a Hungry Heart
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“…emptiness can never be eliminated, although the experience of it can be transformed.”
-Mark Epstein
Ever feel out of control?
Ever feel so empty you can’t be satisfied?
A couple of weeks ago, that’s how I felt.
It was the wrong kind of emptiness, when you ARE filled, but you either don’t know it, or worse, don’t accept it.
Snoring Emotionally
I had talked with my long-time, wonderful therapist, someone ...
Source: PickTheBrain | Motivation and Self Improvement - July 16, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: lnielsen Tags: featured happiness psychology self improvement Source Type: blogs
Rating Portable Diagnostic Devices That Make Patients the Point-of-Care
Although the medical tricorder will remain a dream to be chased by digital health innovators for the years to come, I collected the portable, digital health diagnostic devices currently on the market in case anyone is thinking about purchasing an effective gadget making the patient the point of care.
Chasing the dream of the medical tricorder
Dr. McCoy’s medical tricorder from the Star Trek series, which could scan a patient and immediately tell the diagnosis, basic vital signs and health parameters is the dream of many doctors. In 2012, Qualcomm announced the Tricorder XPRIZE competition offering millions of dollars to ...
Source: The Medical Futurist - May 23, 2017 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Future of Medicine Mobile Health Portable Diagnostics blood pressure digital health GC1 Healthcare heart rate Innovation Personalized medicine technology trackers wearables Source Type: blogs
EverSleep, a Sleep Tracker with Oxygenation Monitoring Looking for Funding on Indiegogo
SomnoHealth, a young company out of Golden, Colorado, is looking to introduce its EverSleep sleep tracker via an Indiegogo crowdfunding campaign. The device is worn around the wrist and has a pulse oximeter built-in that provides blood oxygen saturation monitoring, in addition to an accelerometer for noticing motion, and a sound monitor for detecting any snoring. A paired app will allow review of all the data and to receive personalized coaching to improve sleep based on results from prior nights.
The company believes that the EverSleep can help individuals to themselves identify whether to seek professional care for a va...
Source: Medgadget - May 17, 2017 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Editors Tags: Cardiology Medicine OTC Source Type: blogs
A physician ’s ode to someone who changed his life
I think it’s fair to say a small part of all of us died along with Grace McDermott. Grace was a beautiful, talented PhD student studying in Ireland who tragically passed away in a house fire this past week. She was many things — musician, blogger, extrovert, women’s rights activist — but she was also my first girlfriend. I’m still in shock.
It’s hard to comprehend something like this. The mind shudders and reels, seeking to find meaning but failing. Something went wrong in the universe. I first heard on Tuesday when a member of the youth orchestra we both played in, The Metropolitan Youth Orchestra...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - May 12, 2017 Category: General Medicine Authors: < a href="http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/ben-gold" rel="tag" > Ben Gold, MD < /a > Tags: Physician Primary care Source Type: blogs
MKSAP: 52-year-old man with sudden onset of erectile dysfunction
Test your medicine knowledge with the MKSAP challenge, in partnership with the American College of Physicians.
A 52-year-old man is evaluated for the sudden onset of erectile dysfunction that has persisted for 6 months. He reports having erections that are inadequate for vaginal penetration. He feels guilty about not being able to satisfy his wife’s requests for sexual intercourse, although he still has sexual desires. He has been sleeping poorly and feeling fatigued throughout the day. He reports no snoring or daytime somnolence, and his review of systems is otherwise negative. His wife does not report that the p...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - April 1, 2017 Category: Journals (General) Authors: < a href="http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/mksap" rel="tag" > mksap < /a > Tags: Conditions Primary care Source Type: blogs
I Am Rebelling
Sometimes I need to let my inner rebel out and stop being such a good patient. I usually try to be a good patient (and go to my appointments, take my meds as prescribed, talk to my doctors honestly and generally do what they want me to). But not right now.Last fall I was told I have sleep apnea and my doctors want me to have a CPAP machine for sleeping. I got my CPAP machine and hate it. I can ' t stand having anything on my face while I sleep. I am on my second mask and still cannot deal with it. I wake up and want to rip it off my face. If I sleep with the mask on, I don ' t ever feel rested and have the weirdest dreams....
Source: Caroline's Breast Cancer Blog - March 23, 2017 Category: Cancer & Oncology Tags: apnea CPAP lack of sleep rebelling Source Type: blogs
5 Ways for Sleep Tracking: A Week-Long Experiment With Apps And Sensors
Sleep tracking is not an easy business. There are plenty of options on the market, while choosing and paying for a sensor, an app or both is a serious commitment. I decided to carry out a week-long experiment by testing various sleep apps, sensors and their combinations in order to help you with my own results. Check it out!
How to find the way out of the jungle of sleep trackers?
Tracking sleep is an amazing experience. You learn a lot about your habits and how they affect sleep quality. For example, what happens if you drink or eat anything before going to sleep? What if you exercise? And what about checking your social...
Source: The Medical Futurist - March 16, 2017 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Health Sensors & Trackers gc3 Health 2.0 Personalized medicine sleep sleep as android sleep optimization sleep tracking technology wearable wearables Source Type: blogs
Sleep Tracking 2.0: My Viatom O2 Sleep Monitor Review
One of my duties as The Medical Futurist is testing new healthcare sensors. I tested the Viatom O2 which promises to closely monitor your heart rate and blood oxygen level, while you are dreaming about a holiday in Hawaii. Moreover, it offers to warn you with a smart vibration, if the SpO2 level drops too low. Here is my verdict about the device.
Sleep tracking for improving sleep quality
For me, sleep tracking and going to bed goes as naturally together as a movie-night with popcorn or Belgium with rainy weather. I have been tracking my sleep for years to be able to optimize it. So, I have quite an experience with apps, ...
Source: The Medical Futurist - March 14, 2017 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Health Sensors & Trackers future gc3 healthy lifestyle Innovation Personalized medicine sleep optimization sleep tracking technology viatom wearables Source Type: blogs
My 6-Months Sleep Tracking Experiment – And What I Learnt From It
I have been working for years on how to optimize my sleeping pattern to be able to wake up well-rested in the morning. Through a 6-months sleep tracking experiment carried out with the Pebble Time sensor and the Android Sleep app, I increased my sleep quality significantly. Check out what I learnt from it!
Eliminate luck from sleep quality!
I’m quite an avid health tracker. In some previous articles, I have described how I track stress, how I changed my life with a simple excel spreadsheet or how you could live healthier with the help of technology. Being familiar with the difficulties of lifestyle change, I know that it...
Source: The Medical Futurist - February 23, 2017 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Health Sensors & Trackers future gc3 health trackers Healthcare Innovation pebble personalized Personalized medicine sleep sleep as android sleep tracking wearables Source Type: blogs
Home sleep studies may help identify sleep apnea
What if I need a sleep study? If you are one of the approximately 35% of Americans who snore, perhaps this has crossed your mind. You have read on the internet or watched a newscast about sleep apnea, a condition associated with an increase in heart attack and stroke risk. Loud snoring, daytime sleepiness, fatigue, and observed pauses in breathing at night are the most frequent symptoms. A sleep study is necessary to make the diagnosis.
To many people, the thought of a sleep study raises visions of being restrained in a bed with wires attached everywhere and complete strangers watching you, in other words, “Big Brother o...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - February 23, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Stuart Quan, MD Tags: Health Sleep Source Type: blogs
Every doctor needs a moment like this
My car says it’s 2:10 a.m., 17 degrees. I just left my warm bed — and snoring husband — threw on scrubs and my contact lenses and quickly brushed my teeth and hair. I’m shivering as the car warms up and I hear the crunch of the snow as the car rolls out of the driveway. I’m the first one out on the fresh snow, and it glistens in the light of my headlamps. Trying to shake the sleepy fog in my head, I breathe in this beautiful moment and tell myself I would have missed this if I wasn’t driving into the hospital for a delivery. The car fishtails little as I drive down the hill, turning the corner, the shiny metal ...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - February 22, 2017 Category: Journals (General) Authors: < a href="http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/andrea-eisenberg" rel="tag" > Andrea Eisenberg, MD < /a > Tags: Physician OB/GYN Source Type: blogs
