by Bruce Brown | February 9, 2021 | Health
Predicting a virus such as COVID-19 is far better than waiting for symptoms to appear. With early notice you can take steps to ameliorate or treat a disease before it progresses too far. Early detection can also protect other people from infections by quarantining an...
by Bruce Brown | December 30, 2020 | Health
It wasn’t that long ago when fitness bands and smartwatches were markedly different devices. Successive Apple Watch and Samsung Galaxy smartwatches generations have added exercise tracking and health monitoring features. Newer Fitbit and Garmin models continue...
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by Bruce Brown | April 30, 2020 | Health
Wrist-worn devices including smartwatches and wristbands continue to lead the wearables market. According to the latest IDC Worldwide Quarterly Wearable Device Tracker report for the last quarter of 2019, Huami, the Chinese wearable company that makes the Mi Band for...
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by Bruce Brown | January 17, 2020 | Health
We’ve written about Withings multiple times on Health Tech Insider. We covered Withings’ wearables including smartwatches, smart scales, blood pressure monitors, ECG watches, temperature monitors, sleep aids, and more. We tracked Nokia’s acquisition...
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by Bruce Brown | January 15, 2019 | Health
We first wrote about Omron’s HeartGuide oscillometric blood pressure monitoring watch last year following its initial unveiling at CES 2018. One year later, Omron has a release date and price for the highly anticipated wearable. According to Omron’s...
