by Bruce Brown | February 16, 2021 | Health
The widening scope of telehealth, telemedicine, and remote patient monitoring (RPM) now extends to eating disorder treatment. San Diego’s Equip recently announced funding that will enable expansion of its evidence-based eating disorder treatment. Equip’s...
by Bruce Brown | February 15, 2021 | Health, Medical
We don’t need to reiterate the U.S. and global statistics on obesity, overweight, and diabetes. The numbers are huge, scary, and in a good year, they hold at current levels. We’ve written many times about devices and programs to detect and manage Type 2...
by Amantha May | February 15, 2021 | Health
Vivos Therapeutics has announced the launch of VivoScore, a comprehensive home sleep apnea test. VivoScore includes a wearable sensor ring and a mobile app with cloud-based AI that evaluates sleep quality to diagnose obstructive sleep apnea (OSA). Subjects can wear it...
by Bruce Brown | February 13, 2021 | Health
Market prognosticators Gartner and IDC predict that hearable product sales will continue to lead the growth in the wearable device shipments worldwide at least for the next three to five years. During CES 2021, Taipei-based Relajet announced the company will begin...
by Amantha May | February 10, 2021 | Health, Medical
Signifier Medical Technologies recently received FDA clearance for a new device that treats primary snoring and mild obstructive sleep apnea (OSA). Unlike most OSA treatment devices, this is used during the day while the patient is awake. The eXciteOSA is a small...
by Bruce Brown | February 9, 2021 | Health
Predicting a virus such as COVID-19 is far better than waiting for symptoms to appear. With early notice you can take steps to ameliorate or treat a disease before it progresses too far. Early detection can also protect other people from infections by quarantining an...