New Telehealth Certificate for Primary Care Teams

by Bruce Brown | August 30, 2021 | Medical

As telemedicine adoption spreads in the U.S., so does the need for guidance and standards. Physicians and other medical professionals and healthcare institutions need models to maintain standards of care while maximizing the opportunities deliver telemedicine...

Use Thoughts to Control Devices with New Wireless Brain-Machine Interface

by Amantha May | August 30, 2021 | Enabling Tech

Under the direction of Woon-Hong Yeo at the Georgia Institute of Technology, a multi-institutional research team has developed a wireless wearable brain-machine interface (BMI) system using soft scalp electronics. The new system could make BMI technology more...

Test Your Stress Level with Free Online Voice Analysis

by Amantha May | August 27, 2021 | Health

Cigna has launched a free online stress evaluation tool that uses voice analysis to determine user stress levels. The Cigna StressWaves Test was developed in partnership with Ellipsis Health, a digital health platform that identifies vocal biomarkers to detect anxiety...

Spit, Wait, and Scan to Test for COVID-19 At Home [video]

by Bruce Brown | August 27, 2021 | Health

We often write about digital home health devices. Since we launched Health Tech Insider, however, no other single force has advanced remote care and telemedicine as much as the COVID-19 pandemic. It’s fitting, then, that we finally have an at-home device that...

Diabetes Patients to Benefit from New Collaboration: Lifescan and Fitbit

by Amantha May | August 25, 2021 | Medical

The original, clip-on Fitbit tracker, released in 2009, brought the idea of consumer wearables that track personal wellness to the mass market. Fitbit cemented its status as a visionary leader in this new industry when the company introduced an integrated user website...

Wearable Tech Assists At-Home Myoclonic Jerk Assessment

by Bruce Brown | August 24, 2021 | Medical

Researchers from the University of Eastern Finland (UEF) and Kuopio University Hospital published a study that found a wearable device used at home can help monitor symptoms of a progressive form of epilepsy. The study published in Clinical Neurophysiology found that...