Editor's Note: This article is based a panel discussion taking place onMarch 11, 2016 at SXSW Interactive, titled, “Home, Sweet Home: The Health Hub of the Future.” For more information, click here.   Almost every day, we see announcements about yet another “connected” product that is hailed as creating a “smarter” home environment. These types of products promise an easier, more convenient way of living, but they aren’t always connected to our lives—or all that smart.  But there is an important
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Editor’s Note: Stuart Karten is the principal of Karten Design, a product innovation consultancy creating positive experiences between people and products specializing in health technology.  The number of adults aged 65 and older will double to nearly 90 million people by 2050. The baby boom generation — the largest in history — aren’t babies anymore. They are taking their unique perspective into their senior years, and that perspective will help shape healthcare for the next several decades.
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Editor's Note: Editor’s Note: Stuart Karten is the principal of Karten Design, a product innovation consultancy creating positive experiences between people and products specializing in health technology.  This is an essay adapted from a talk he will give at the 2015 USC Body Computing Conference on October 9, 2015. Our design firm has been studying how the future of medicine is becoming “invisible”—powerful, ubiquitous, and intuitive. In most cases, technology has outpaced design. In its
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