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 with the modest goal of raising $100,000. Instead, they raised $2.4 million from nearly 20,000 backers. And … [Read more...]
Internet Trends Point to Healthcare Shifts
Mary Meeker is a venture capitalist with the firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (KPCB), and is known for her intensive and extensive annual presentations on Internet Trends. In her report this year, she spent a portion of her presentation on the impact of the Internet on healthcare, both in the U.S. and worldwide. The key premise of her presentation was that … [Read more...]
Stanford Study Reveals Tracker Band Flaws
The task of measuring events, such as heartbeats, is relatively straightforward. When you try to infer information from a combination of measurements, however, it gets a bit trickier. It is possible that you end up missing key factors that are required in order to give an accurate result. And as we've mentioned before, we are well along in the process of transitioning from … [Read more...]
Study Proves Value of ECG Patch
Patients who have experience a stroke or transient ischemic attack (TIA) often experience an irregular heartbeat due to paroxysmal atrial fibrillation (PAF). This condition places the patient at higher risk of another stroke or TIA, but it can be difficult to detect the condition reliably as it can occur at random intervals spread over a long period of time. The typical … [Read more...]
Deep Learning Uses Apple Watch to Detect Arrhythmia
Sensors are an essential part of a wearable Health Tech device, creating the data that is used to provide meaningful results for the wearer. The real work, however, is done by sophisticated algorithms that can extract meaning from noisy data sets, singling out the important trends and ignoring the random static. As we have repeatedly written here, the future of the wearable … [Read more...]
