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Ozzie Paez
Aug 9, 20222 min read
Validating AI in medicine - Biobeat
Biobeat’s announcement that its cuffless blood pressure measuring devices proved accurate across sex, BMI, and skin colors is a...
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Ozzie Paez
Jun 28, 20222 min read
Biobeat RPM and ABPM evaluations
Our evaluation of Biobeat’s ABPM technologies involves two tracks: clinical and decision-making. The first focuses on diagnosis,...
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Ozzie Paez
Jun 21, 20222 min read
Biobeat ABPM clinical profiling kit
We are occasionally approached by organizations to evaluate new innovative products and technologies. Some prove interesting, a few are...
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Ozzie Paez
Jun 16, 20222 min read
Improving patient engagement with Biobeat's 24BP
This week I will discuss how the Covid pandemic and innovative new technologies are affecting hypertension control programs and patient...
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Ozzie Paez
May 24, 20222 min read
Biobeat's BP24 blood pressure profiling
I discussed in previous posts the impacts of hypertension and the challenges doctors and patients face in overcoming this silent killer....
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Ozzie Paez
Feb 8, 20222 min read
Hospitals struggling with COVID spikes
The daily drumroll of hospitals, health systems, cities, and states struggling to cope with COVID spikes continues. We don’t yet know how...
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Ozzie Paez
Jan 29, 20222 min read
Quantifying health and healthcare
The heart of digital transformation is quantification or more specifically the capacity to continuously measure (sample) processes,...
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Ozzie Paez
Jan 18, 20222 min read
Patients and innovators in healthcare
My last post demonstrated through an actual case how wearable health monitors and continuous patient monitoring are empowering patients...
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Ozzie Paez
Jan 6, 20222 min read
The patient's side of health monitoring
This post is the second in a series. It describes a health event experienced by an OPR researcher. He was using two wearable monitoring...
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Ozzie Paez
Dec 28, 20212 min read
The risks of dying after leaving hospital
Reducing the risks of patients unexpectedly deteriorating and dying after being released from hospital is a growing concern. Thankfully,...
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Ozzie Paez
Dec 10, 20212 min read
Barriers to healthcare innovation
Replacing legacy medical equipment with innovative new technologies is challenging because in healthcare there is little room for error....
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Ozzie Paez
Dec 9, 20211 min read
Harvard Digital Health Wrap-Up
Harvard’s last Digital Health cohort of 2021 wrapped December 4th. There were 191 participants from across the world. This was one of the...
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Ozzie Paez
Nov 17, 20212 min read
Havard's Future of healthcare is digital
Technological #innovations remain the primary engines of economic growth. Harvard’s Clayton Christensen broadly classified innovations as...
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Ozzie Paez
Nov 11, 20212 min read
Remote Patient Monitoring: challenges and opportunities
All technologies introduce controversies and disruptive technologies can kick up a storm. My colleagues and I have experienced these...
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Ozzie Paez
Nov 4, 20211 min read
Healthcare, telemedicine, remote patient monitoring
I've been researching, evaluating, and writing about physiological monitors and patient monitoring for years. Remote patient monitoring...
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Ozzie Paez
Oct 29, 20212 min read
Nursing shortage at NoCo's Healthcare Summit
Northern Colorado’s Healthcare Summit brought home the looming catastrophe of nursing shortages across the country. Reports suggest that...
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Ozzie Paez
Oct 28, 20212 min read
How hospitals can cope with peak demands
Hospitals operating at capacity during peak demands for services adjust admission and discharge benchmarks to focus on the most severely...
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Ozzie Paez
Sep 21, 20212 min read
Hospitals at full capacity
An aggravated injury led me to the ER this weekend – a rare event. It was also an opportunity to observe and ask about conditions at...
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