by Bruce Brown | January 12, 2021 | Medical
AI enhancements have made hearing aids more powerful than ever. They can make dynamic adjustments in response to changes in ambient sound, or enhance select frequencies to make conversation more intelligible, such as NuHeara’s IQ Buds Max. Phonak’s Audeo...
by Amantha May | January 6, 2021 | Medical
Like telemedicine, home hospitalization programs existed well before 2020, but these services were hardly front and center when it came to standard health care practices. The coronavirus pandemic spotlighted telehealth out of necessity while bringing remote patient...
by Amantha May | January 4, 2021 | Health, Medical
A preliminary study conducted by the University of California (UC) San Francisco and UC San Diego suggests that a health tracker could detect early signs of COVID-19. An analysis of health data recorded by the Oura Ring showed that the device accurately identified...
by Bruce Brown | January 1, 2021 | Medical
Sudden cardiac arrest is a killer. According to the CDC, approximately 209,000 people in the U.S. are treated for in-hospital cardia arrest (IHCA) annually. Those were the lucky ones, because they were already in the hospital. In 2015, for example, about 357,000...
by Bruce Brown | December 31, 2020 | Medical
According to a study published by the U.S. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), more than 2.5 million people in the U.S. develop pressure ulcers each year. Pressure ulcers — also called bedsores — occur often with patients in hospitals but...
by Bruce Brown | December 29, 2020 | Medical
A panel of expert judges named the Widex Moment machine-learning hearable technology a CES 2021 Innovation Awards Honoree in two categories: Health & Wellness and Wearable Technologies. We wrote about Widex Moment in November. The Consumer Trade Association (CTA)...