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Jamie Davis, the Podmedic
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 using the Iris system to monitor and manage the health and safety of the customer’s loved ones. This is a trend we are seeing more and more often at CES. Consumers are not just using the electronic technology they see there but also adopting the technologies into new and inventive uses. For example, you are worried your elderly mother lives alone. She won’t get a monitoring service to notify responders and you if she falls or has a health emergency. That’s okay, you have access to the customizable Iris System. You get a couple of motion sensors to place around the home in strategic locations. Then you add a few door/window sensors and place them on the medicine cabinet doors and kitchen cabinet doors to make sure that not only is Mom moving around her home but she’s taking her medicine and making food for herself. All of this is monitored by a mobile app that unobtrusively lets you know when the system is activated at any time you want. Your mother gets her much-cherished independence and you get the peace of mind knowing that she is okay and doing well each day, throughout the day. This is just one example of how the Lowe’s Iris Home System customers are using creative and unique solutions using common home monitoring and safety tools. Check out the whole video below for more about this amazing story and learn how others help their loved ones in interesting and unique ways. —-
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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. That all changes with the Omni Pro Medical Assessment Doctor’s Multitool Kit from HMD HK Ltd. Health Tech Weekly host Jamie Davis, the Podmedic interviews Dr. William Hasbun, the inventor of the Omni Pro. Jamie learns from the doctor about his new all-in-one toolkit at CES 2016 in the Eureka Park startup area of the international consumer electronics conference. The Omni Pro is like a Swiss Army Knife of medical assessment tools. The kit is compact and everything attaches or folds out from the included hight quality stethoscope. The more than 20 assessment tools include:
- Stethoscope
- Reflex Hammer
- Otoscope
- Ophthalmoscope
- Blue & White Color LED flashlight
- ECG Calipers
- Tuning Fork
- Tongue Depressor Holder
The device will be available for purchase later in spring 2016 and you can contact the company HMD-HK Limited for more information. You can contact company director Andy Hasbun by email for updated time frames and supply dates. —-
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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. Sleep time and duration, number of times waking up and/or turning over and leaving the bed as well as breathing and heart rate are analyzed to determine the actual sleep quality. With this data, you can take steps to improve your sleep cycles. The data can be exported using the Sleepace mobile app. You can use that data and information to start a conversation with you health care provider should you be concerned about medical problems like sleep apnea. The accompanying mobile app provides scientific evaluation and smart analysis of individual sleep report and status of each person. The app provides sleep consultation, tips and suggestions for exercise, diets, sleep habits, etc. to help users create their perfect personal sleep plan and improve their sleep quality. The Sleepace App is also connected to a family cloud account in which you can check and compare your family members’ sleep reports and status wherever you are. The Sleepace RestOn is available now at Amazon for $149.00.—-
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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 your food all at once and allows you to track you diet much more simply. It has a dedicated smart app that goes with the Smart Diet Scale so you can track your calories and nutrition intake over time. The Smart Diet Scale is attractively designed with four separate weight sensors shielded by tempered glass and features touchscreen technology. This makes both using and cleaning the scale a simple task. The four separate portion control Smart Diet Plates measure individual portions of food, and are capable of calculating and displaying the entire nutritional value of your meal all at once. Find out more info at the Smart Diet Scale site.
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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. With eye-tracking therapy, they help you achieve what they call Maximum Vision Performance. In just two minutes, the RightEye eye-tracking test records eye movement data on precisely where a person is looking and measures an array of vision characteristics that are automatically compared to a database of the general population. After the test, the software delivers a real-time, customized RightEye report that identifies strengths and weaknesses in vision performance and underlying health conditions, and recommends customized eye-tracking based vision training games that improve vision performance along with any needed medical follow-up. It can also be used to track changes over time for concussion patients to track when they return to normal and can return to work or the playing field.
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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. All of these people with partial hearing loss can benefit from the Jacoti Hearing Suite of apps available for free in the app iOS app store. Jacoti Hearing Suite is a set of cloud-enabled mobile applications that grants anyone - from people with normal hearing to those with profound hearing losses - ubiquitous hearing support with reliability and capabilities far beyond existing and expensive hearing aids and assistive listening devices. Jacoti Hearing Center Jacoti Listen App Jacoti Music App These apps harness the power of the pocket computer that is your smartphone to bring the sounds around you and on your device to life. You can now listen to your own music, enhanced for your personal hearing loss challenges, hear the voices of those around you, and even share you testing information with an audiologist or other medical professional. Jacoti believes that hearing loss compensation and personalization of audio should be a fundamental part of all audio- enabled computing devices. Hearing loss is both a medical condition and a consumer challenge. Therefore, it needs consumer-driven and consumer-oriented solutions.
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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 track of their training regimen and the effectiveness of their practice. The technology behind the Skulpt Aim® is called electrical impedance myography or EIM. ‘Myography’ literally means “The description of muscles.” When applied to the skin, a very weak current passes between the outer two electrodes. This current is high-frequency and alternating in nature. As the current moves through the skin, the subcutaneous fat, and the muscle, it loses a little bit of energy due to the resistance of the tissue and this change is then measured by the two inner electrodes. By combining these multiple electrode configurations with multi-frequency electrical measurements, and by using a variety of algorithms, the Skulpt Aim can separate out the condition of the muscle from the amount of fat in a region in just a matter of seconds. The system gives you a percentage body fat reading and a muscle quality reading for the muscle group being examined. By comparing left and right muscle groups, an athlete can track their symmetrical muscle development. This is important for high-performance athletes to ensure optimal performance and avoid injury. You can find more information at Skulpt.me and get the Skulpt Aim system for yourself and help you meet your fitness goals starting at just $99.
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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 and the technology that uses electrical impedance to track the glucose and other nutrients entering the cells. Far more than a simple activity tracker, the Healbe GoBe provides the most comprehensive information from your body, delivered effortlessly to your smartphone. GoBe calculates your calorie intake through your skin. Know exactly how many calories you're consuming with no manual logging, no estimates and no error-prone guesswork. It also delivers a complete picture of your heart rate and daily exertion level with GoBe’s continuous piezo pressure sensor heart rate monitoring. Coupling this with an activity tracker and you have the nearly perfect fitness and wellness wearable device. Find more info at HealBe.com and get the HealBe GoBe at Amazon.com now for just $249.00.
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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 interviewed LifeFuels Chief Operating Officer Ethan Gill about the electronic dispensing water bottle. They met up at the International CES conference in Las Vegas, Nevada last month where many health technology companies were gathered to show off their products for consumers.
LifeFuels says they have the nutrition you need, when you need it, on the go. The water bottle provides dispenser inserts that have different nutritional liquid supplements to be dispensed into the water bottle as you need them. It ties in with a mobile application on your smartphone or tablet and allows you to track your hydration levels and the nutritional content of the various supplements you have consumed that day.
The LifeFuels water bottle is coming soon so check in at their site LifeFuels.co.
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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 infections. Jamie was impressed most by the new SKY UV toaster-like device that sterilizes mobile devices in a portable easy to use format.
Nurses and physicians, as well as other healthcare professionals, use their mobile smartphones and tablets like iPads more and more often in the healthcare arena. The challenge comes when trying to clean these devices adequately. The SKY UV from Seal Shield takes care of this problem once and for all.
Hospital acquired infections are a major issue for patients and healthcare workers. The federal government and the Joint Commission have both made it a primary issue for hospitals and healthcare organizations to reduce the incidence of these infections. Cleaning devices used by the healthcare team is part of the push. This can reduce the transmission of diseases from one patient to another by stopping the carrying of infected devices from one room to the next. Support Our New Sponsor! This episode sponsored in part by StudentLoanGroup.us/podcast. Find out about new Federal student loan consolidation and forgiveness programs that you may be eligible for. Visit StudentLoanGroup.us/podcast and talk with the loan specialists right now!
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