by Bruce Brown | July 7, 2017 | General News, Health
Nokia has joined the biometric monitoring platform club. The Finish technology and communications giant recently dropped the Withings brand name from its line of wearable health tech devices. Now Nokia is moving forward to develop and market biometric monitoring...
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by Alfred Poor | June 20, 2017 | General News, Medical
Atrial fibrillation (AFib) is one of the most common forms of irregular heart rhythms, and it can lead to stroke and even death. It generally can be managed or even corrected, but as many as one third of the people with the condition are not aware that they have it,...
by Alfred Poor | June 16, 2017 | Enabling Tech, General News
So you have a great idea for a new wearable Health Tech device that is going to save lives around the world; what next? Your idea won’t help anyone if you don’t bring it to market, and the longer you wait, the more investor cash you burn before the...
by Alfred Poor | June 15, 2017 | General News, Health
Crowd-funding has helped many Health Tech devices raise development funds and build a market for new products. Some campaigns have extraordinary success. For example, consider the Hello from Sense. This sleep-tracking device ran a Kickstarter campaign three years ago...
by Alfred Poor | June 13, 2017 | General News, Medical
Frequent readers of Health Tech Insider will know that I often bang the drum calling for more scientific evidence that wearables and other mobile health technology can actually produce the improved health outcomes and reduced costs that many of us (reasonably) expect...
