Who Are You? Your Heart Knows.

by Alfred Poor | March 14, 2019 | Enabling Tech, Health, Medical

Most articles about wearable tech focus on the health-related uses of biometric data. Measurements of body functions such as heart rate, temperature, and breathing rate can help identify disease and other conditions. But there’s another big problem facing...

Pressure-Filtering Earplugs Diminish Weather Headaches

by Bruce Brown | March 13, 2019 | Health

Not all wearable health tech devices rely on complex — and costly — electronics. And yet the technology can address real problems that people have. For example, changes in barometric pressure can trigger headaches: from minor discomfort to full-blown...

Video Game for Healthcare Competition [video]

by Alfred Poor | March 13, 2019 | Health, Medical

One of the hot new terms in digital health tech is “gamification.” Facebook tugs on some primal psychological strings to keep users coming back over and over. Those same levers can be used to increase patient engagement and alter behavior patterns....

Wireless Monitor Detects Falls [video]

by Alfred Poor | March 12, 2019 | Health

The vast majority of seniors want to live independently as long as they can do so safely. One of the biggest risks for the elderly is falling; according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, falls are the leading cause for fatal injury for older adults....

Livio Hearing Aid Uses AI to Detect Falls [video]

by Bruce Brown | March 8, 2019 | Health, Medical

Hearing loss affects about 15% of U.S. adults 18 and older, about 37.5 million people, according to the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD). The incidence of hearing loss increases with age, topping out at 50% of people 75 and...

LTE-M Certified Medical and Health Data Wearable [video]

by Bruce Brown | March 6, 2019 | Enabling Tech, Health, Medical

Smartwatches are poised to take off during 2019 as standalone health tech wearables and for their data aggregation and transmission roles for other devices. We’ve written recently about Withings Move ECG smartwatch. Omron’s HeartGuide oscillometric blood...