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 devices and its central software platform Health Mate. The platform collects data from Nokia devices and helps users … [Read more...]
Earbud Helps Women Track Fertility [video]
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Women who are trying to get pregnant often find it difficult to determine their fertility windows. Tracking basal body temperature (BBT) is a common method of predicting ovulation. The traditional way to track cycles by taking the woman's temperature when she first arises gives a single daily data point that can easily be thrown off by other factors. We have looked in the past … [Read more...]
Nokia Drops Withings Brand with New Wireless Blood Pressure Monitor
In Spring 2016 Finnish communications giant Nokia bought French health tech pioneering company Withings. Nokia's then-President Ramzi Haidamus stated in a press release that Withings would run the digital health business. No brand name decisions or changes were announced the time. As recently as January 2017 when we wrote about the Withings Hair Coach, it seemed likely that the … [Read more...]
Citizen Alert Program Saves Lives
Timeliness in response after a sudden cardiac arrest (SCA) is crucial. According to a Joint Commission report on SCA sponsored by Boston Scientific, Medtronic, and St. Jude Medical corporations, about 295,000 people experience sudden cardiac arrest in the U.S. each year. Only 7 to 8.5% who have an SCA survive. The report also states that bystander care can have a significant … [Read more...]
Squeezable Game Controller Helps Upper Limb Therapy
Upper limb functional difficulties involving just the hand, portions of the arm, or the whole arm can arise from a variety of conditions. Paralysis following a stroke is a common cause of upper limb difficulty but you can also lose strength, flexibility, and movement as a result of accidents, recovery from surgery, and a range of neurological, orthopedic, and pediatric … [Read more...]
