Philips will soon launch a couple of iPhone- and iPad-controlled devices, but they're not the company's usual phone docks or Hue smartlight models -- they're gadgets designed to help suppress persistent pain.

Although Windows Phone owners are no strangers to health and fitness apps, the latest in the works is a new ballgame altogether among fitness trackers. The

As the potential for smart wearable devices continues to draw new entrants into the market, it is the sports and healthcare functionality that currently dominates shipments and is expected to drive...

More tips for healthcare innovation: Inspiration from other industries Healthcare IT News (blog) One of the commenters to Wagner's piece in HBR was surprised that Whirlpool had allowed Memorial Hospital to conduct “Innovisits.” An Innovisit is an...

I like to think I’m a relatively health-conscious kind of guy. I go to the gym a few times a week, walk across the Brooklyn Bridge almost daily, sleep upwards of seven hours a night and eat boatloads of kale.

Skin biopsies can be painful, long, and expensive. Caliber I.D. has developed a skin biopsy technology that uses lasers to perform skin biopsies.

The VivaScope system is a high-resolution medical imaging system that allows doctors to perform skin biopsies, to test for cancerous cells in moles, for example, without cutting into a patient’s skin.

For a traditional skin biopsy, a dermatologist will numb the specified area, excise a piece of skin, and send it off to a pathology lab. The pathologists in the lab then freeze, section, and stain the skin sample and look at it under a microscope. Results could take up to a week. VivaScope eliminates most of this procedure, allowing real time diagnoses.

There are lots of diseases and health issues for humans to worry about in general, and yet we tend to create more of them as time goes on. Lead poisoning, cancer from tanning beds, lots of stuff from smoking.

On October 22, as part of the Mobile Economy Project, the Center for Technology Innovation at Brookings hosted an event on how specific mobile applications and inventions are transforming health care and the ways regulators and governments are...

Whether they're sneaking between cells or turning cockroaches into living 8-bit computers , nanobots are insanely fascinating.

This week we got a deep look at the rumored new health and fitness tracking application for Apple’s next iPhone, called Healthbook. Supposedly, Healthbook will not only track things like how much exercise and sleep you’re getting, but also your ...

Both the San Francisco Chronicle and Business Insider are reporting that the highly anticipated Apple iWatch will include functionality that actively monitors the cardiovascular system and alerts wearers just prior to the onset of a heart attack.

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Much like enterprises are using more consumer technology (or consumer-like) technology, hospitals are also trying to figure out how shifts in user interfaces, voice recognition and other developments should make their way into their treatments.

FTE explores the new paper from Artefact Group’s Rob Girling, which explores the future role of wearable technology and biometrics in the travel sector.

Kinsa wants to change how we glean information about our health starting with the world's most common medical device.

Professor Rosalind Picard tells HARDtalk that robots will never completely replace doctors and nurses but they will have a role in healthcare.