by Alfred Poor | November 30, 2018 | General News, Health
One of the themes that we repeat here at Health Tech Insider is our market analysis that the wearables market is shifting. Instead of selling single units to individual consumers, companies will sell tens or hundreds (or thousands) of units at a time to large...
by Alfred Poor | November 29, 2018 | General News, Health
Conventional wisdom says that people quickly tire of their fitness bands, and shove them into the back of a drawer somewhere. New research from Valencell paints a very different picture. An online survey provides an update for the study that the company conducted two...
by Alfred Poor | November 28, 2018 | General News, Health
Some say that we are now living in the Information Age, as we transition from industrialized business models to one where digital data processing takes over the controls. Key to this concept is the fact that data has value in itself, as it guides actions to make...
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by Bruce Brown | November 23, 2018 | General News, Health
Industrial safety wearables exist in a unique space due to industry’s controlled environments where employees are more likely to comply with technology requirements. Casual athletes, discharged hospital patients, students, and even adults concerned about their...
by Bruce Brown | November 19, 2018 | General News, Health
Diabetes cuts a wide swath across the U.S. population and is an inviting opportunity for health tech development. Unlike many cancers and neurological diseases, the biological mechanisms involved in both Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes are relatively well-understood, which...
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by Bruce Brown | November 9, 2018 | General News, Health
Many seniors live in dread of falls. If you fall and break your hip, as my Mother did as we were leaving a restaurant in early February a few years back, you might not get home for months. My Mom didn’t go home until the end of May. As we wrote in June this...
