New Tele-Behavioral Health Partnership

by Unber Shafiq | November 22, 2022 | Health, Medical

Digital therapeutics company Twill (formerly known as Happify Health) has announced its collaboration with e-Psychiatry, a telepsychiatry and teletherapy service, to give patients enhanced mental health care through virtual access to psychiatrists, psychologists, and...

Can Electricity Make Meditation Better? 

by William McCleary | November 18, 2022 | Health

Does a little electrical head stimulation make meditation easier? The folks at Bodhi NeuroTech say yes; the South Carolina-based tech startup is planning the launch of a headset that delivers gentle electrical currents designed to activate areas of the brain that are...

Your Phone’s Smarts Now Can Improve Your Hearing

by Bruce Brown | November 17, 2022 | Health

Health Tech Insider often covers new developments in hearable technology, starting well before the 2017 OTC Hearing Aid Act legislation. The law directed the FDA to create a category of over-the-counter (OTC) hearing aids. The act’s intent is to loosen...

New Evidence That Fitness Trackers Can Predict Premature Births [video]

by William McCleary | November 14, 2022 | Health

The percentage of preterm births in the United States has been on the rise for decades, and today around 1 in 10 infants who are delivered in the U.S. have gestation times of 37 weeks or fewer. These preterm infants have significantly higher mortality rates than...

Smart Safety Vest Can Go Beyond the Job Site [video]

by Bruce Brown | November 7, 2022 | Health

Most wearable biosensor technology stories involve wrist-worn or handheld technology, but Swanholm Technology AB’s Connected Safety Vest is much larger. Originally developed to aid truck driver safety, potential applications for Swanholm’s AI-driven vest...

Does Your Tracker Know How Long You Will Live?

by William McCleary | November 7, 2022 | Enabling Tech, Health

Can one’s fitness tracker gauge their risk of death over years? It seems so. That’s the overall finding from a study conducted by researchers at the University of Illinois that employed around 100,000 participants in the UK Biobank, a massive biomedical...