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by Bruce Brown | January 29, 2020 | Health
https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0261/0865/7724/files/ST1_wristcomputer_16_9_Moments.mp4?3157 Wristbands take the prize as the most common new tech medical and health wearable form factor. We’ve written about scads of single-purpose and multifunction wristbands...
by Alfred Poor | January 27, 2020 | Conferences, Health, Medical
[Editor’s note: We are going to try posting announcements about conferences and other events that are of interest to the digital health tech community at large. I welcome your feedback and suggestions. Are these posts helpful? Would you rather have a separate...
by Bruce Brown | January 24, 2020 | Health
As of 2016, 93.3 million U.S. adults were obese, according to the CDC. That number equals 39.8% of Americans who are more prone than non-obese adults to heart disease, stroke, Type 2 diabetes, and some forms of cancer. Those conditions and diseases, taken as a group,...
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by Bruce Brown | January 17, 2020 | Health
We’ve written about Withings multiple times on Health Tech Insider. We covered Withings’ wearables including smartwatches, smart scales, blood pressure monitors, ECG watches, temperature monitors, sleep aids, and more. We tracked Nokia’s acquisition...
by Bruce Brown | January 16, 2020 | Health
Most health and medical wearables use one or more sensors to monitor biometrics with hard numbers. We recently learned of a “softer” wristband wearable technology that relies on wearer inputs about their current mood. The Moodbeam One has just two buttons....
by Bruce Brown | January 10, 2020 | Health
Does the world need another fitness band? Fitness bands, smartwatches, and wristband biometric monitoring devices deliver their greatest value when worn regularly. In the real world, unfortunately, when the wearer removes a device every day or so to recharge the...
