by Bruce Brown | February 21, 2019 | Health
Advances in diabetes management is always big news due to the prevalence of the disease. The CDC’s latest (2017) report states that 30.2 million U.S. adults had diabetes, including 7.2 million, who were unaware of having the disease or not getting treatment. The...
by Bruce Brown | February 14, 2019 | Health
Wearable with ECGs take home health monitoring further than most consumers would have deemed likely so soon after the heath tech began to emerge from fitness trackers. We’ve written about Cambridge Heartwear’s Heartsense 3-lead ECG device. We also covered...
by Alfred Poor | February 12, 2019 | Health, Medical
CES has become the leading show for health tech. The number of exhibitors with health and medical products has grown rapidly in recent years. Nowhere else can you find so many companies in one place, from huge multinational corporations to tiny startups and university...
by Bruce Brown | February 11, 2019 | Health
Robotics continue to find meaningful applications in health care. A.I.-empowered robots in a pilot program in Canada help reduce hospital emergency department wait times and VGo’s telepresence robot augments clinical staff access in a variety of healthcare...
by Bruce Brown | February 7, 2019 | Health
We’ve followed Withings before, during, and after its purchase and sell back by Nokia. Not long after Withings regained its independence, the company launched the Steel HR Sport hybrid digital and analog smartwatch, a variation of the Steel HR introduced when...
by Alfred Poor | February 7, 2019 | Health
At CES 2019, there were more companies showing sleep technology products than ever before, from smartphone apps to high tech sleeping pods. I often say that sleep technology is like weather reports; they tell you what happened but don’t give you any way to make...