by Bruce Brown | October 29, 2020 | Health, Medical
Fitness trackers do more than just count your steps. A new study published by the Scripps Research Translational Institute today in Nature shows that activity trackers and personal health sensing devices such as Fitbits and smartwatches can improve COVID-19 detection....
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by Bruce Brown | October 28, 2020 | Medical
Among the many medical and health technologies that we cover on Health Tech Insider, the devices that assist professional or citizen responders at emergency sites may be the most dramatic. In the past, we’ve written about emergency defibrillator locators, smart...
by Bruce Brown | October 27, 2020 | Health
Hearables continue to be the fastest-growing segment in the global wearables market, according to IDC’s most recent quarterly Wearables Tracker report. We’ve written often about hearables that help people with hearing impairments. We’ve also covered...
by Bruce Brown | October 26, 2020 | Fitness, General News, Health
Source: IDC Worldwide Quarterly Wearable Device Tracker, September 2020 It’s not hard to find rosy prospect claims for any market, but we pay special attention to the International Data Corporation (IDC) market forecast reports. Along with Gartner, IDC is known...
by Bruce Brown | October 23, 2020 | Health
Americans are getting older. As each year goes by, U.S. adults 65 and older will represent an increasingly large proportion of the population. In 2016, 49 million U.S. adults represented 15% of the population, according to the CDC. That number is expected to double by...
