Wearable Heating and Cooling Device [video]

Wearable Heating and Cooling Device [video]

Occasionally when we write about wearables on Health Tech Insider, the topic is clothing. Smart shirts are most common. In the past few months, for example, we wrote about Chronolife’s KeeSense smart t-shirt developed for remote patient monitoring. We covered...
Ocular Pressure Sensor Heads Off Blindness [video]

Ocular Pressure Sensor Heads Off Blindness [video]

As if a diagnosis of glaucoma isn’t bad enough, the progressive disease is the second leading cause of blindness worldwide according to the World Health Organization. An undetected and untreated IOP increase can result in permanent blindness due to optic nerve...
AI Assists Early Sepsis Identification and Treatment

AI Assists Early Sepsis Identification and Treatment

Sepsis is a killer; the CDC reports that each year at least 1.7 million adults in the U.S. develop sepsis, and one in three patients who die in a hospital have sepsis. Assigning the cause of death to sepsis is tricky because it’s not a disease nor an infectious...
Dual Sensor Wearable Monitors Your Sleep

Dual Sensor Wearable Monitors Your Sleep

During the past six years, we’ve written about a wide variety of sleep technology devices designed to improve sleep duration and quality. Most devices simply report on the quality of your sleep, measured most often in the amount of time you spend in light sleep,...
AI Steps Up for Hospital COVID-19 Screening

AI Steps Up for Hospital COVID-19 Screening

Once again, artificial intelligence shows its potential for sifting through massive amounts of medical test data to deliver actionable results, this time with COVID-19 screening in hospitals and emergency departments. We’ve written numerous posts about AI...