It is no secret that Canada’s population is aging at a rapid pace, as are the populations of most developed countries. It is estimated that by 2035, Canada will be what is referred to as a ‘super-aged’ country, that is a country where more than 25% of the population is over the age 65. If […]
We’ve written extensively about the explosion in digital health solutions driving a once in a lifetime revolution across the healthcare ecosystem. Many of these solutions are being developed in the field of remote patient monitoring (RPM) and integrate the latest in wearable medical device technology, artificial intelligence machine learning algorithms and human intervention. Today we […]
The healthcare field is experiencing a once in a lifetime revolution due to the emergence of digital health technology and everything that it makes possible across all of its processes. The benefits of emerging technology have allowed a wide array of unmet clinical needs to be addressed in new ways, and the medical field has […]
Amazon Care, Amazon’s telehealth service, launched in September 2019 with the goal of making healthcare easy and convenient for families and individuals by making patient-centric healthcare services available when and where they are needed on a 24/7/365 basis. Originally the service was available to Amazon employees and to companies in the Seattle area on a […]
There are myriad exciting new wearable technology firms tackling health challenges to help people lead better and healthier lives. They are all facing significant challenges in all aspects of the business – technical development, clinical validation, regulatory affairs, productization and user adoption. Only a select few are getting enough of these right to have a […]
The trends towards continuously increasing levels of technology integration and innovation across all areas of society have also led to a revolution in the expanded use of technology in healthcare and medicine. Presently we are experiencing what can best be described as a boom period in digital health and medical technology, due not only to the […]
Last week, Friday, June 10th at 9am EST, as part of the Digital Health Institute for Transformation (DHIT)’s Covid-19 Unites Us All webinar series, BML Managing Director Marc Saab appeared on a webinar panel to discuss Remote Cardiac Monitoring. The event was co-hosted by DHIT’s Michael Levy and Adam Curry of the ASSIST Center, and […]
This Friday, June 10th at 9am EST, as part of the Digital Health Institute for Transformation (DHIT)’s Covid-19 Unites Us All webinar series, BML Managing Director Marc Saab will be speaking about Remote Cardiac Monitoring. The event will be co-hosted by Michael Levy and Adam Curry, and will feature Dr Bryon Boulton, Surgical Director of […]
Why the wearables movement desperately needs to take 10,000 steps. There are numbers that mean something to us viscerally. They elicit an image or a feeling without engaging our rational minds. 20 cms of snow. 714 home runs. 92 goals. 12 parsecs. And 10,000 steps. Mahatma Gandhi did a lot of walking in his lifetime. He […]
