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by Bruce Brown | March 3, 2020 | Health
Fitness trackers have evolved far beyond just counting steps. Last fall, market leader Fitbit announced CE approval to use the FibriCheck heart rhythm tracking app to monitor and share the measurements with physicians. Readings from the FibriCheck application with the...
by Bruce Brown | February 20, 2020 | Medical
Wearable patch biosensor technology applications for in-hospital and remote patient monitoring are rapidly gaining traction as developers gain expertise. As predicted in 2017’s Connected Wearable Patches report, clinical applications of wearable patches are the...
by Bruce Brown | February 11, 2020 | Medical
We’ve written about Eko’s digital stethoscope technology several times. Most recently in December 2019, we reported that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration granted Eko Breakthrough Device status for the artificial intelligence algorithm designed to...
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by Bruce Brown | October 11, 2019 | Health
Fitbit smartwatch users who live in select EU countries will soon be able to monitor their heart rhythm with the FibriCheck Fitbit app, previously available only with smartphones. The CE-marked FibriCheck employs Fitbit’s PPG (photoplethysmography) sensors to...
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by Bruce Brown | January 14, 2019 | Health
We have followed Withings’ wearable tech since Health Tech Insider’s launch in June 2014. In the ensuing years, the firm was bought by Nokia in 2016 and then bought back by Withings’ co-founder and former chairman Éric Carreel in 2018. This year at CES...
