Google releases Lookout app that identifies objects for the visually impaired
/Announced last year, it’s available on Pixel devices in the US this week.
Read MoreIndia Fights Diabetic Blindness With Help From A.I.
/MADURAI, India — The Aravind Eye Hospital will treat anyone who comes through the door, with or without money.
Read MoreGoogle Doodle pays tribute to Japanese inventor Seiichi Miyake
/His invention, the tenji block, changed the way the visually impaired interact with the world.
Read MoreMore Doctors Want to Treat Patients From the Comfort of Their Couch
/Mobile medical apps let physicians practice telemedicine full time.
Read MoreHealth Care’s Huge Cybersecurity Problem
/Cyberattacks aren’t just going after your data
Read MorePatients Ready to Embrace AI, Patient Engagement Technologies
/Forty-two percent of patients said they are comfortable with AI being a part of their docs' patient engagement technologies toolkit.
Beyond Wellness For the Healthy: Digital Health Consumer Adoption 2018
/Results from Rock Health’s fourth national consumer survey (2018 data) on digital health adoption and sentiments. Adoption continues to rise while consumers leverage digital health tools to address concrete health needs.
Read MoreRehabilitation Research at the National Institutes of Health: Moving the Field Forward (Executive Summary)
/Approximately 53 million Americans live with a disability. For decades, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has been conducting and supporting research to discover new ways to minimize disability and enhance the quality of life of people with disabilities. After the passage of the Americans With Disabilities Act, the NIH established the National Center for Medical Rehabilitation Research with the goal of developing and implementing a rehabilitation research agenda. Currently, a total of 17 institutes and centers at NIH invest more than $500 million per year in rehabilitation research. Recently, the director of NIH, Dr Francis Collins, appointed a Blue Ribbon Panel to evaluate the status of rehabilitation research across institutes and centers. As a follow-up to the work of that panel, NIH recently organized a conference under the title “Rehabilitation Research at NIH: Moving the Field Forward.” This report is a summary of the discussions and proposals that will help guide rehabilitation research at NIH in the near future.
Read MoreMicrosoft’s Halo-themed prosthetic arm will make kids feel like Master Chief
/Microsoft’s 343 Industries has partnered with bionics non-profit Limbitless Solutions to create Halo-themed, 3D-printed prosthetic arms for children. The prosthetic arms are fully functional, with hands that are capable of gripping objects through EMG sensors. The best part is, they’re donated free of charge to recipients.
Read MoreHow healthcare organizations can jump-start IoT implementations
/Healthcare organizations face a new challenge as they prepare for the next wave of innovation: they must re-imagine and modernize their digital infrastructure now.
Read MoreNew voices at patients’ bedsides: Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and Apple
/At first it was a novelty: Hospitals began using voice assistants to allow patients to order lunch, check medication regimens, and get on-demand medical advice at home.
IoT Devices Should Deal with Privacy Impacts for People with Disabilities
/The Future of Privacy Forum today released The Internet of Things (IoT) and People with Disabilities: Exploring the Benefits, Challenges, and Privacy Tensions. This paper explores the nuances of privacy considerations for people with disabilities using IoT services and provides recommendations to address privacy considerations, which can include transparency, individual control, respect for context, the need for focused collection and security.
Read MoreGame-Based Stroke Rehab From Home On Par with Clinic
/Arm motor function recovery was noninferior in randomized trial
Read MoreGoogle Live Transcribe could be a big help for people who are deaf or hard of hearing
/It’s also releasing a Sound Amplifier feature — both only on Android
Read MoreLetter of Recommendation: Color Blind Pal
/When I was 12, I became part of the very select group of people who have had a life-changing experience at a fondue restaurant. After repeatedly grabbing my brother’s green fondue fork and eating his steak from the broth pot, I found myself accused of elder-sibling entitlement. But my father, who is colorblind, said I had done nothing wrong; like me, he was unable to see any difference between my brother’s green fork and my orange one. The Ishihara color-vision testhe administered on his computer later that night confirmed that I was among those few women with red-green colorblindness. He was excited that I saw “correctly” — which is to say, like him. Back then, the ability to understand his frame of reference was mostly limited to other people barred from becoming astronauts. Now there’s an app for it.
Read MoreIs Amazon Going to Announce a HIPAA-compliant Echo Device Soon?
/There is a rumor out there that Amazon is about to launch a HIPAA-compliant Echo device, which is expected to drive greater adoption of voice in healthcare. But what does it mean for a smart speaker to become HIPAA compliant and what can voice do today?
Read MoreThis Hacker Showed How a Smart Lightbulb Could Leak Your Wi-Fi Password
/The “moderate to severe” vulnerabilities discovered by the hacker LimitedResults have since been fixed, according to the smart bulb company LIFX.
Fitbit stealth launches new activity, heart rate trackers for corporate partners, health plans
/The Fitbit Inspire and Fitbit Inspire HR aren't too different from the company's existing fitness trackers, but as of now are unavailable for consumer purchase.
NIH Integrates Fitbit Data into “All of Us” Research Program
/Participants in the All of Us research program can now add their Fitbit data to their health data profiles.
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