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by Bruce Brown | July 18, 2022 | Enabling Tech, Health, Medical
Luxembourg-based LiveMetric recently added FDA clearance to the existing CE clearance for the company’s LiveOne wrist-worn cuff-less blood pressure monitor. Cuffless BP monitoring is one of the holiest grails of wearable digital health technology...
by Bruce Brown | August 10, 2021 | Health
Contact-free vital signs sensors have advantages over devices that require cuffs, patches, or other means of body contact. Not only are contact-free devices less cumbersome and burdensome for patients, the devices don’t depend on patient compliance in order to...
by Bruce Brown | November 9, 2020 | Health
A group of soldiers in far upstate New York are performing a vital role in wearables development. U.S. Army soldiers with the 4th Battalion, 31st Infantry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division are engaged in a yearlong study with a combination of...
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by Bruce Brown | March 21, 2019 | Health
Smart garments for general population everyday wear may catch on in another decade or two, but today there’s no compelling use case: the wearable equivalent of what computer journalists used to refer to as a “killer app.” We have seen digitally...
by Bruce Brown | December 3, 2018 | General News, Medical
Every month we write about wearables that monitor heart rate and heart rate variability, blood pressure, respiration, blood oxygen level, and more. In many cases, biosensor wearables connect via Bluetooth with smartphone apps that store the data for user...
