by Bruce Brown | November 12, 2020 | Health
Score another win for digital therapeutics. We’ve written about FDA approval for prescribed digital therapeutics, a Consumer Technology Association (CTA) initiative to develop a set of standards for digital therapeutics, and the pandemic’s influence in...
by Bruce Brown | November 12, 2020 | Health
An interesting report from GlobalData states that hearable shipment and revenues will continue to grow and outstrip all other wearable categories including smartwatches and smart glasses. COVID-19-related production shutdowns in China and other core manufacturing...
by Bruce Brown | November 10, 2020 | Medical
Colorectal cancer (CRC) is a killer. In 2017 in the U.S. alone, 52,547 people died and 141,425 new cases were reported, according to the CDC. In 2018, fewer than 70% of U.S. adults aged 50 to 75 years were up to date with colorectal cancer screening. Colorectal...
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...
by Bruce Brown | November 6, 2020 | Enabling Tech
Who knew sweat could be such a big deal? Looking back through our coverage here on Health Tech Insider, in 2020 alone we wrote about five technologies that monitor sweat to measure drug levels at UCLA and the Stanford School of Medicine, pH at National Univerity of...