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...

New Home Healthcare Partnership Reaches 80 Million in U.S.

by Bruce Brown | October 13, 2020 | Medical

For home telehealthcare to advance in scale requires clinically-accurate connected biomedical devices, telehealth platforms, medical professionals, and patient populations. Tyto Care first got our attention in early 2019 with its partnership with Best Buy. Best Buy...

Get Glasses Prescription Online [video]

by Bruce Brown | October 6, 2020 | Medical

We’ve written extensively about advances in and adoption of telehealth and telemedicine, often in combination with remote monitoring, AI, and mobile apps. In-home testing applications for COVID-19 and other diseases are invaluable during the current...

Lab-on-Chip Tests for COVID-19 in 10 Seconds [video]

by Bruce Brown | October 5, 2020 | Medical

Recently developed technologies continue to play significant roles in the war against the COVID-19 pandemic. In the last few months, we’ve written about AI applications that predict COVID-19 in hospital admissions, HoloLens2 augmented reality headsets assisting...