Tag Archives: health apps

Why aren’t you wearing your Fitbit?

By | June 9, 2016

Nobody can deny that the market for consumer wearable devices (such as Fitbit and Jawbone) is booming.  In 2015, a research firm estimated the number of activity trackers sold in the US to be over 13 million. Personally, I followed the fitness tracker trend and bought a Fitbit for both my husband and father as… Read More »

Lost in translation: Medical translators can help overcome language barriers only if…

By | November 29, 2016

As our country’s diverse populations grow, the variety in the numbers of spoken languages and dialects is also on the rise. In 2013, approximately 25.1 million individuals were considered Limited English Proficiency (LEP), which is a term that refers to individuals ages 5 and older who report speaking English less than very well as per… Read More »