Wearable Helps Workers Keep Their Distance [video]

by Bruce Brown | August 3, 2020 | Health

Effective social distancing or controlled proximity is a keystone to a successful return to education and employment as most of us know it. If we can stay far enough away from each other long enough, health experts tell us, we’ll have our best chance to stem the...

Video Game Improves “Chemobrain” [video]

by Amantha May | August 3, 2020 | General News, Health

Three out of four breast cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy experience a decline in cognition. Thirty-five percent of those patients continue to experience cognitive dysfunction after chemotherapy ends. A recently published research paper demonstrates that...

Smart Home Disrupter Launches $25 Fitness Tracker [video]

by Bruce Brown | July 31, 2020 | Health

We don’t generally write about fitness trackers and wearables, but we’re making an exception for the Wyze Band. Wyze disrupted the smart home device camera market in 2017 when the company released the first Wyze Camera, an indoor smart home security camera...

Free Online Group Therapy

by Amantha May | July 31, 2020 | General News, Health

According to a recent poll by the Kaiser Family Foundation, 45% of adults in the United States feel that the COVID-19 pandemic has affected their mental health. In response to this growing mental health crisis, Hims, Inc. a disruptive telehealth company, is now...

Wearable Heating and Cooling Device [video]

by Bruce Brown | July 30, 2020 | Health

Occasionally when we write about wearables on Health Tech Insider, the topic is clothing. Smart shirts are most common. In the past few months, for example, we wrote about Chronolife’s KeeSense smart t-shirt developed for remote patient monitoring. We covered...

Ocular Pressure Sensor Heads Off Blindness [video]

by Bruce Brown | July 29, 2020 | Medical

As if a diagnosis of glaucoma isn’t bad enough, the progressive disease is the second leading cause of blindness worldwide according to the World Health Organization. An undetected and untreated IOP increase can result in permanent blindness due to optic nerve...