5 Reasons Why Battery-Powered Monitors Are Perfect for Healthcare Settings
August 22, 2024
Healthcare providers always want more out of their tools. There’s always room for improvement, whether it’s more effective medication or more accurate diagnostic tools. Sometimes, however, improvement comes from an unexpected angle. A battery-powered medical monitor may not be the upgrade…
Powered and Non-Powered Medical Carts: The Ultimate Guide
April 3, 2024
Medical carts, or Workstations on Wheels (WoW), allow healthcare providers and other medical staff members to transport healthcare computers, peripheral devices, instruments, and medication to different locations in the hospital. This mobility streamlines many medical professionals’ workflow…
Maximizing Patient Care: The Benefits of Cloud Computing in Healthcare
February 20, 2024
Healthcare providers need a reliable and secure way to record their work with patients. Elements like diagnoses, treatment history, and personal health information are all critical pieces of knowledge that must be documented and stored for future reference. Over the years, the method for storing…
Better and Faster Results: The Power of Edge Computing in Healthcare
January 11, 2024
Data drives modern medical technology. Over 10 billion Internet of Things (IoT) medical devices measure and report information like heartbeat rate, blood pressure, glucose levels, and more. This data must be processed and analyzed so that healthcare providers can make better-informed treatment…
How Software as Medical Devices is Revolutionizing Patient Care
November 16, 2023
Digital health apps have seen an explosion in use in the past few years, as changing circumstances, evolving tastes, and a global pandemic make remote healthcare options more palatable. Mobile health apps offer new opportunities for patient care and monitoring, and help reduce the necessity of…
How EMR, mHealth, and Smart Homes Comfort Hospice Residents
May 17, 2022
In 3 Technologies That Are Advancing Hospice Care, we discussed how telemedicine, predictive analytics, and virtual reality (VR) benefited patients in hospice. This time, we’re covering three additional technologies: electronic medical records (EMR), mHealth (example: wearables), and smart homes.…
3 Unconventional Telehealth Solutions to Meet Rural Healthcare Needs
May 5, 2022
Telehealth played a critical role helping people deal with the COVID-19 pandemic. It allows patients to safely contact their providers to deal with their non-urgent but still important conditions like diabetes, high blood pressure, and pregnancy. The technology proved to have limits, though. Many…
4 Key Uses of Artificial Intelligence in Chronic Care Management
April 7, 2022
Chronic diseases such as asthma, arthritis, diabetes, and heart disease affect about half of all adults in the US. Worldwide, they account for more than 90 percent of the morbidity and mortality rates among First-World nations. Here are even more sobering figures to think about: Chronic diseases…
How Telemedicine Improves Maritime Healthcare
March 15, 2022
Most people in developed nations take medical care for granted. The COVID-19 pandemic, and the following lockdowns to contain it, brought to light the many gaps in healthcare systems to public attention. One such gap was health services for seafarers like merchant ship crews. Roughly 90 percent of…
How Femtech Brings Balance to Healthcare for Women
December 16, 2021
Consider the following: In a fact sheet released by the US Department of Labor, healthcare expenses for women between the ages of 19 – 44 were found to be 80 percent higher than men of similar age. Reproductive services were considered one of the main reasons for the difference. In the UK,…
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