Health Tech Weekly
Summary: 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.
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Podcasts:
On the show his week in Health Tech I look at what many consider the holy grail for diabetes glucose monitoring, a non-invasive way to check blood sugar. By non-invasive, I mean a way to check blood sugar without pricking their finger or otherwise drawing blood.
This week in Health Tech I wanted to feature a story that underlines the purpose of this program as well as what is, I believe, the underlying purpose of the health technology industry: To improve the health and lives of individuals in fundamental ways.
In this episode of Health Tech Weekly, I thought we'd talk about something very simple. How active are you? How do you know if you're even meeting your fitness goals?
In this episode of Health Tech Weekly, let's look at a useful tool for parents with sick children. Parents with young children don't always know when their child's temperature spikes and their fever goes up.
Coming up in January I’ll be joining the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2013 coverage team from the Tech Podcast network for the second year, focusing on medical technology and digital health products. Together with the other tech podcast network hosts, we’ll be covering the consumer electronics show so you’ll feel as if you were there yourself!
In this episode of Health Tech Weekly, I wanted to look at a new USB Bladder Scanner that recently received FDA approval. Ewwwww, really a bladder scanner? Yeah, a bladder scanner.
In this episode of Health Tech Weekly, we look at some of the incredible advances on the horizon with prosthetics and communication with paralyzed individuals. The holy grail for this type of research is to find a way to interface directly with the brain.
