Tom Fowler

Tom Fowler worked as a programmer in the healthcare IT industry before settling back in school to learn how to become a doctor. He likes to dabble with biotech startups, write postcards to his relatives, and play his ukulele. He was a TEDMED '13 scholar, has published research in biomedical informatics, and continues to advocate for international maternal and child health. Currently in the SELECT MD leadership program at USF Health Morsani College of Medicine.

Author's Posts

Rehab

June 30th, 2014 ReWalk has come a long way since it was first developed by Dr. Amit Goffer, the Israeli inventor who became quadriplegic after an ATV accident in 1997. ReWalk Robotics (formerly Argo Medical Technologies) has announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the company’s ReWalk Personal System for home use. As a robotic...
Sports Medicine

June 25th, 2014 Withings, the French connected-health company that's famous for smart blood pressure cuffs and weight scales, just announced the Activité, a new cutting edge fitness tracking watch with a stunning design fit for formal wear. Armed with motions sensors and tracking software, this Swiss-made timepiece adds the element of elegance to...
Art

June 4th, 2014 Jeff Hazelton is the President and Chief Technology Officer of BioLucid, a company at the intersection of digital health and the digital arts. His story starts as a pre-med gone bad, followed by an artistically inspired sailing journey around the world 20 years ago, during which he envisioned how artists could use powerful new digital...
Diagnostics

May 28th, 2014 In the late 1990s, Dr. Ingmar Hoerr, founder and CEO of CureVac GmbH, made an unusual discovery in his doctoral research lab that contradicted the scientific belief at the time that RNA was too unstable for clinical use. Dr. Hoerr found that to the contrary, RNA could be administered directly into tissue as a therapeutic vaccine or agent...
Exclusive

May 8th, 2014 Withings recently released their Wireless Blood Pressure Monitor, a device that works with both Android and iPhone devices. I was given the chance to review the slick blood pressure cuff to see how comfortable it is, how the app works, and whether this is really the niftiest BP meter out there.   Appearance and Design I did not...
Exclusive

May 7th, 2014 CrowdMed is an online medical crowdsourcing platform where people submit medical cases with information about symptoms, medical history, family history, and other pertinent data. Subsequently, the community of “medical detectives” suggests diagnoses and places point bets on the outcomes they think are most likely. CrowdMed’s...
Medicine

May 2nd, 2014 From Advanced Brain Monitoring, a Carlsbad, California company, Night Shift is a new gadget for patients with positional obstructive sleep apnea (POSA) and snoring problems. Worn on the back of the neck, Night Shift vibrates when the user starts to sleep on the back, increasing in intensity until it detects that the sleeper has rolled...
OTC

May 1st, 2014 The fitness tracking market is not quite saturated yet and the wearable tech industry is casting a wider net to capture an untapped market potential: children. Leapfrog, an educational entertainment company based in Emeryville, California, today announced LeapBand, a fitness tracking device for kids. Aimed at the 4 to 7 year old...
Cardiology

April 23rd, 2014 Many mobile health gadgets today started off as modified fitness trackers, or simply already developed medical devices altered to be powered by a mobile phone.  It's a booming industry that is exciting to follow, but sometimes products can seem repetitive. Recently, however, there have been a few companies that are truly changing...
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