Monitoring COVID Patients at Home Eases Strain on Hospitals [video]

by Bruce Brown | February 12, 2021 | Medical

We’ve noted COVID-19’s effect on the support for and growth of telemedicine before. Last month we wrote about HD Medical Group’s HealthyU, a remote patient monitoring (RPM) handheld device with multiple sensors to measure vital signs. Last...

Wearable Cuff Senses Gestures To Control Prosthetics [video]

by Amantha May | February 12, 2021 | Enabling Tech

Engineers at the University of California, Berkeley, have created a wearable biosensor device that recognizes hand gestures. Still in development, the UC team believes the device could eventually give patients control over prosthetic hands and other artificial body...

Telehealth with Your Own TV [video]

by Bruce Brown | February 11, 2021 | Medical

Telehealth, telemedicine, and remote patient monitoring (RPM) made great strides in the past few years. We’ve covered about a wide range of telemedicine applications including Philips and Toothpic’s telehealth dental selfies, Current Health’s...

New Disposable Insulin Pump Requires No Batteries

by Bruce Brown | February 10, 2021 | Medical

In the CDC’s 2020 National Diabetes Statistics Report, the national health protection agency states that 34.2 million people in the U.S. have diabetes. That number represents 10.5% of the U.S. population, including 26.9 million diagnosed people and 7.3 million...

Device to Combat Sleep Apnea During The Day [video]

by Amantha May | February 10, 2021 | Health, Medical

Signifier Medical Technologies recently received FDA clearance for a new device that treats primary snoring and mild obstructive sleep apnea (OSA). Unlike most OSA treatment devices, this is used during the day while the patient is awake. The eXciteOSA is a small...

Wearables Can Give Early Warning of COVID Infection

by Bruce Brown | February 9, 2021 | Health

Predicting a virus such as COVID-19 is far better than waiting for symptoms to appear. With early notice you can take steps to ameliorate or treat a disease before it progresses too far. Early detection can also protect other people from infections by quarantining an...