New Study Shows Fitness Band Data Helps Detect COVID-19

by Bruce Brown | October 29, 2020 | Health, Medical

Fitness trackers do more than just count your steps. A new study published by the Scripps Research Translational Institute today in Nature shows that activity trackers and personal health sensing devices such as Fitbits and smartwatches can improve COVID-19 detection....

Smart First-Aid Kit Provides Virtual Hospital Environment [video]

by Bruce Brown | October 28, 2020 | Medical

Among the many medical and health technologies that we cover on Health Tech Insider, the devices that assist professional or citizen responders at emergency sites may be the most dramatic. In the past, we’ve written about emergency defibrillator locators, smart...

New Study to Use Patch to Monitor Heart Surgery Patients [video]

by Bruce Brown | October 21, 2020 | Medical

Remote patient monitoring is a broad term that covers a range of more specific telemedicine applications. We’ve written about remote monitoring to support physical rehab for discharged patients, postpartum checkups, and for working with patients with specific...

Small Blood Pressure Patch Wins Innovation Award [video]

by Amantha May | October 19, 2020 | General News, Health, Medical

During the Virtual MedTech 2020 Conference, online voters selected Vena Vitals as the winner of the 2020 MedTech Innovator Execution Award and the Virginia Shimer Rybski Memorial Award. The awards recognize Vena Vitals, a seed-stage medical technology startup...

New Low-Cost Telehealth Service for Sam’s Club Members

by Amantha May | October 16, 2020 | Health, Medical

Sam’s Club, a subscription-based discounted retail club owned by Walmart Inc., now offers its members an option for virtual primary health care service. Through a partnership with the virtual telehealth platform 98point6, Sam’s Club members who purchase a...

Rolling Clinic Now Combats Opioid Epidemic

by Bruce Brown | October 15, 2020 | Medical

The opioid addiction epidemic hasn’t paused while the COVID-19 pandemic runs rampant. We’ve written about a variety of tech developments that target addiction. Among the many weapons in the growing treatment arsenal, we wrote about a clinical trial run by...