Health Tech Weekly

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The Health Tech Weekly show is a program designed to bring you brief updates on ways technology (both high tech and low tech) impact your everyday lives. Specifically, each episode will focus on technology and health or fitness applications in the real world. This program will bring you the latest in gadgets and mobile apps for health and fitness as well as an occasional look at technology on the horizon, available soon. Your Health Tech Weekly host is Jamie Davis, the Podmedic, an RN and paramedic who also hosts the popular programs MedicCast and the Nursing Show.

Iris by Lowe’s Companies Inc. is a do-it-yourself home automation and security system that ties hundreds of sensors and products together in one easy to control and monitor system. Health Tech Weekly host Jamie Davis, the Podmedic chats with Kris Bowring from Iris Home Systems at Lowe’s at CES 2016 about the unusual and inventive ways their customers are … Continue reading Iris by Lowes Used to Monitor Family Wellness → The post Iris by Lowes Used to Monitor Family Wellness appeared first on Health Tech Weekly.

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For many doctors, nurses and even paramedics, having the patient assessment tools you need on hand at the time you must use them is a challenge. The tools are expensive and have historically been bulky and not very portable.
Sleepace RestOn sleep monitoring device helps you sleep more effectively, improving rest and overall health. Besides monitoring real-time heart rate and respiratory rate, RestOn can also keep a comprehensive score of your sleep.
At CES 2016 this year, HT Weekly host Jamie Davis, the Podmedic stopped by the Smart Diet Scale booth to talk to Nick Batsikouras, creator of the new scale. The patented concept is simple. It weighs the four quadrants of your plate so you can portion y...
RightEye takes standard eye-tracking technology and adapts it for concussion testing and tracking for athletes and trauma victims. RightEye offers a revolutionary eye-tracking solution that measures your visual skills and health in just 2 minutes.
Hearing loss is a big problem worldwide. The World Health Organization (WHO) says that 10% of the world’s population has significant hearing loss or deafness. Experts estimate another 10 to 20% suffer from lesser levels of hearing loss.
Jose Bohorquez, founder and CEO of Skulpt chats with Health Tech Weekly host Jamie Davis, the Podmedic at CES Unveiled at the CES 2016 conference in Las Vegas. Skulpt is a muscle and fat quality monitoring system that is used by top athletes to keep tr...
HealBe provides a way for consumers to track their calorie intake constantly using a device they wear on their wrist. Health Tech Weekly host Jamie Davis, the Podmedic interviews HealBe co-founder George Mikeberydze about how the device was developed a...
Maintaining adequate hydration is important. So is keeping your electrolyte levels up during exercise. The new dispenser water bottle from LifeFuels offers a unique way to keep track of these parameters, especially for active people.
Health Tech Weekly host Jamie Davis, the Podmedic checked out the Seal Shield booth at CES 2016 in Las Vegas earlier this month. While there he chatted with CEO Brad Whitchurch about their new infection control products to reduce healthcare acquired in...
This week we feature MOCAHeart, the first of our segments from CES 2016 in Las Vegas. I stopped by the MOCACare booth to talk with founder and Chief Operating Officer Naama Stauber about the new health monitoring device.
This week on the Health Tech Weekly Podcast we have a special segment from EMS World Expo in our special Physio-Control Podcast Studio there. We picked our EMS product innovators and this episode features a new system for organizing the gear in the bac...
This week on the Health Tech Weekly Podcast we look at new technology coming from researchers at Cornell University’s Baker Institute for Animal Health that developed a way to detect strokes in patients using just a single drop of blood in less than te...
This week on the Health Tech Weekly Podcast is a look at what ride transportation innovator UBER is doing to forward the push to get flu vaccines around the U.S. In 36 cities around the country recently, the ride share program app UBER got together wit...
This week on Health Tech Weekly we have a novel approach to a baby monitor that the baby wears on their ankle to monitor their health and activity levels for parents via a Bluetooth connection and a wireless smartphone app.
This week on Health Tech Weekly we look at a new device designed especially for people with a gluten allergy or sensitivity. NIMA is a sensor device that is portable and can detect the presence of gluten in foods in just two minutes.
This week on the Health Tech Weekly Podcast I have a novel tool for you to try out in Australia that uses the processor of your smartphone while you sleep to help cure cancer. That’s right, you smartphone could help cure cancer.
This week on the Health Tech Weekly Podcast we have a new take on the medicine bottle and the pill reminder system all rolled into one. I have a special interview with Zoy Shuh. He is Overseas Marketing Manager for VV-Box,
This week on the Health Tech Weekly Podcast we are going to look at the latest in a technology to help responders safely take you up and down stairs in a wheeled stretcher. Back injuries for our health care workers and first responders are a huge probl...
This week on the Health Tech Weekly Podcast I bring you a look at a new technology that will likely become the standard by which all your ambulances and other small healthcare rooms are sterilized and cleaned in the future.