Germany’s RWTH Aachen University built this Future Care Lab to study smart healthcare technologies – eHealth – and is working with consumers to understand their needs and wants and how they might use technology.
FUTURE OF YOU is a 27-min video by KQED and QuestScience about digital sensors, activity trackers and the Quantified Self movement. From wearable activity trackers to personal genetics, it explores the new digital health revolution that…
Thirteen years after a freak accident left her paralyzed, Rosemarie found a new mission in life: sharing what she has learned about Universal Design. She founded Universal Design Living Laboratory and is building a national demonstration…
With over 10,000 baby boomers turning 65 every day, there may not be enough doctors to care for them as they age. As Seth Doane reports in this CBS News report, over the next ten years…
By Nina Dunn, Spector & Associates, 5/12/2011 In the coming years, Americans will face demographic changes that will fundamentally shift our healthcare system and the way we age. The sheer number of baby boomers approaching retirement…
“I’ve fallen and I can’t get up” — it’s a catch phrase from a popular commercial in the late ’80s for a medical alarm pendant manufactured by LifeCall, an emergency alert service. The device was…
By Brian Holzer MD, MBA, President, Kindred Innovations [Searching for the Healthcare Unicorn is blog post about fixing our healthcare system. It was originally published on LinkedIn, is based on my personal view, and does not in any…