The United States is facing the prospect of a primary care physician shortage in the years ahead, but digital health technologies like electronic health records and medical devices could help ease the burden, the mobile health blog MobiHealthNews reports. If digital health technologies take hold the way many believe they will, the U.S. may no longer have to worry about a pressing shortage of primary care physicians, projected by the Association of American Medical Colleges...

At CEA, we produce a lot of exciting, thought-provoking and timely research and perspectives, which explore everything from the number of people tuning in to March Madness on mobile devices to highlighting the ways the millennial generation shops. We’ve collected six of our best infographics here. In the Sports and Technology Study V, CEA analyzed how the NCAA college basketball tournament and other sporting events drive the adoption of technology. Skilled...

We have already seen the power of 3D printing to disrupt businesses, from creating clothes to building toys. Now, we're also learning that 3D printing has the opportunity to drastically change and improve lives. The Sydney Morning Herald reported this week on Eric Moger of the United Kingdom, who has received a 3D-printed prosthetic face after a cancerous tumor disfigured his face. Doctors scanned Moger's skull and, using computers, recreated what his face would look like. ...

As demand for old cathode ray tube (CRT) glass is phased out in favor of LCD, LED and plasma displays, the consumer electronics and recycling industries are working to find inventive and creative new ways to recycle this material. Over the next 10 years, more than two billion pounds or one million tons, of legacy CRT TVs and monitors are expected to enter the recycling process. This creates a need for an environmentally-sound, economically sustainable solution for recycling and reusing this...

New on i3: The consumer electronics (CE) industry transcends many of the socioeconomic and demographic limitations impacting other industries, but we still need to understand the basics of how consumers shop for technology.