by Bruce Brown | September 28, 2021 | Medical
We write about telehealth and remote care just about every week. We’re elated to see advances in remote care development and the growing acceptance of digital health models. It sure would be a happier and healthier world without COVID-19, but there’s no...
by Bruce Brown | September 27, 2021 | Medical
As we’ve written many times, the optimal wearable is one you’re not aware of. If you can forget you’re wearing an assistive device, it’s less likely to end up in the back of some drawer. That’s why, when I describe the Widex Moment...
by Bruce Brown | September 23, 2021 | Health
Therapy dogs can bring light into otherwise dark lives. Therapy dogs aren’t necessarily as highly trained as service dogs for visually impaired people, for example, but therapy dogs must have specific characteristics. Therapy dogs need to be...
by Bruce Brown | September 21, 2021 | Health, Medical
We’ve been covering wearable ECG devices since 2014 when Alfred Poor wrote about the Zio XT Service ECG patch monitor. Among other developments in ECG, in 2019 we noted VivaQuant‘s RX-1 Rhythm Express wearable arrhythmia device. More recently I had hands on...
by Bruce Brown | September 20, 2021 | Health
We usually cover wristband wearables that measure biometrics such as pulse rate, respiration rate, or oxygen saturation. Reliefband’s nausea-prevention wearables are an exception. We first covered the eponymous Reliefband during CES 2016. The original...
