by Bruce Brown | October 19, 2018 | General News, Health
We don’t usually cover patents in Health Tech Insider; there’s little likelihood that any given patent ever will result in a commercial product. But digital voice assistants such as Amazon Alexa, Google Assistant, and Apple Siri are training consumers to...
by Bruce Brown | October 18, 2018 | General News, Health
New products with claimed medical applications need to clear FDA hurdles to be marketed and sold in the U.S. Products that purport to measure biomarkers with previously untested technologies face extra scrutiny. Photoplethysmography (PPG) is an optical technique used...
by Bruce Brown | October 17, 2018 | General News, Health
If people with diabetes Type I and Type II don’t monitor their blood glucose levels regularly, meaning multiple times each day, the consequences can include heart attacks, coma, blindness, and even death. Invasive self-testing, usually with finger pricks to draw...
by Bruce Brown | October 16, 2018 | Fitness, General News, Health
As relatively new technologies, virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) have caught on quickly for medical and wellness applications. We’ve written about VR-assisted training for amblyopia in Slovakia and physical therapy gamification in Israel....
by Bruce Brown | October 15, 2018 | General News, Health
Every month we write about new technologies developed to monitor blood pressure. High blood pressure continues to plague Americans in massive proportions, affecting two-thirds of the U.S. adult population if you count both hypertension and prehypertension, says the...
by Bruce Brown | October 12, 2018 | General News, Health
From sensor-equipped wristbands to robotic assistants and comprehensive electronic health records (EHRs), digital health technology’s diverse benefits may come with unexpected safety threats. ECRI Institute produces an annual report on threats to healthcare...
