by Bruce Brown | October 8, 2020 | Fitness, Health
Step trackers and other fitness-related wearables launched in the early 21st century preceded most of the wearable health devices we write about on Health Tech Insider. However, a recent Abbott news release has an example of development in the opposite direction:...
by Bruce Brown | October 7, 2020 | Health
Fitbit recently announced that the Fitbit ECG App now has both FDA 510(k) clearance and CE marking to analyze user heart rhythm for atrial fibrillation (AFib). The new Fitbit Sense smartwatch — available now — is the first Fitbit wearable with the ECG App....
by Bruce Brown | October 6, 2020 | Medical
We’ve written extensively about advances in and adoption of telehealth and telemedicine, often in combination with remote monitoring, AI, and mobile apps. In-home testing applications for COVID-19 and other diseases are invaluable during the current...
by Bruce Brown | October 5, 2020 | Medical
Recently developed technologies continue to play significant roles in the war against the COVID-19 pandemic. In the last few months, we’ve written about AI applications that predict COVID-19 in hospital admissions, HoloLens2 augmented reality headsets assisting...
by Bruce Brown | October 2, 2020 | Health
Difficulty sticking to the task, susceptibility to distractions, ineffective time management, and an overall lack of productivity plague most of us at least some of the time. For some people (raising my hand here), these issues are more of a challenge than for others....