Free Mental Health App for Frontline Workers

Free Mental Health App for Frontline Workers

Experts believe that the Covid-19 pandemic has caused first responders and frontline healthcare workers to experience trauma and distress. Such experiences could increase their risk for mental health conditions, especially post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). The...
Draw Your Own Health Sensor [video]

Draw Your Own Health Sensor [video]

Sometimes, the future arrives as a low-tech innovation that redefines simple technology from the past. It doesn’t get much simpler than a graphite pencil: a device widely used today that has barely deviated from its original design from the 1500s. What goes hand in...
Remote Heart Monitoring Subscription Service

Remote Heart Monitoring Subscription Service

In keeping with the telemedicine and remote patient monitoring trend, AliveCor has announced KardiaCare which is a new service that helps patients monitor their hearts’ health at home. KardiaCare works with AliveCor’s consumer ECG devices: KardiaMobile and...
Wearable for Remote Rehab Monitoring

Wearable for Remote Rehab Monitoring

Health tech offerings of late have frequently focused on remote patient monitoring and its benefits in reducing the risk of COVID-19 for healthcare workers. Obtaining high accuracy biometrics, however, usually requires a stationary device available only in onsite...
New Wearable for Opioid Withdrawal

New Wearable for Opioid Withdrawal

In a recent brief, the American Medical Association expressed concern over “an increasing number of reports from national, state and local media suggesting increases in opioid-related mortality” due to the COVID-19 crisis. Now, Masimo has announced its latest product,...