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One of the recurring themes here on Health Tech Insider is that the path for success for wearable devices is to add features and do more. Take sleep sensors as an example. Most of them track your motion while you sleep, and some will also track heart rate. From this data, the supporting app will infer the quality of your sleep and the time you spend in various sleep … [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...]
Sweat Sensors Can Identify Disease
The eyes may be the window to the soul, but a substance as prosaic as sweat could provide a way to measure a wide range of hidden activities going on in your body. We tend to think of sweat as salty water (if we think about it at all), but the fact is that it is a complex soup of chemicals, which presumably can be used as biomarkers to monitor disease and other important health … [Read more...]
Smart Bra Tracks Wellness and Stress [video]
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Stress is a factor leading to 3 out of 4 doctor's visits in the U.S., according to Stress.org. The same organization claims that 44% of Americans reported feeling more stressed in 2015 than five years earlier. One in 5 people experiences extreme stress, the signs of which can include palpitations, shaking, and depression. The American Psychological Association reports the top … [Read more...]
Ontario Backs Digital Health Innovation
At 415,000 square miles, the Canadian province of Ontario is larger than any of the United States except Alaska. Yet it has a population that is only a bit larger than that of Pennsylvania (at just 46,000 square miles). These two numbers alone make it clear that Ontario faces some special healthcare challenges in terms of delivering services to its residents spread across great … [Read more...]
