Elderly Smartwatch for Free

by Alfred Poor | October 8, 2018 | General News, Health

As the smartwatch market matures, it should not be a surprise that the products are starting to differentiate. Different feature sets will appeal to different market segments, and manufacturers hope to establish a niche for their products. One niche market for...

New Smartphone Sensor Could Measure Blood Pressure [video]

by Bruce Brown | October 5, 2018 | General News, Health

The incidence of high blood pressure among U.S. adults would be astounding if the correlations with poor lifestyle choices weren’t so clear. Obesity, poor nutrition, and inadequate exercise are all too common among adults, and they relate directly with unhealthy...

Fitbit Launches Enterprise Health Platform [video]

by Bruce Brown | October 2, 2018 | General News, Health

  First, they counted steps. Then fitness trackers gained additional types of exercise monitoring and record-keeping, followed by biometrics. Today wrist-borne activity wearables are stepping up to address the needs of enterprises that seek packaged solutions to...

VR Proves Helpful for Mental Health Applications

by Alfred Poor | October 1, 2018 | Enabling Tech, General News, Health, Medical

At Health Tech Insider, we typically post articles about individual projects, products, or research reports. We also generate all of our own content; we don’t publish submitted articles. So this article is a bit of a departure from our normal editorial scope. We...

Health Tech Insider Reaches Major Milestone

by Alfred Poor | September 26, 2018 | Enabling Tech, General News, Health, Medical

Just over four years ago, Health Tech Insider was launched. Our mission has evolved and been refined over those years, but in the final analysis we continue to cover wearable and mobile devices for health and medical applications, along with the supporting...

Elvie Wearable Breast Pump [video]

by Bruce Brown | September 25, 2018 | General News, Health

With groups such as the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) and the World Health Organization (WHO) recommending that infants be exclusively breastfed for the first six months or longer, it’s no wonder the rates of breastfed babies have risen dramatically in...