by Bruce Brown | March 17, 2021 | Health
International Data Corporation (IDC) recently published its Worldwide Quarterly Wearable Device Tracker for the last quarter of 2020. The report also summarized global wearables shipment data for the full year. Despite COVID-19, and due in part to the pandemic, global...
by Amantha May | March 17, 2021 | Health
“Alexa, do I have atrial fibrillation?” “I’ll listen to your heartbeat now to check for irregular rhythms…” That’s a conversation you might have with your smart speaker soon if you have concerns about any type of irregular heart rhythm. Researchers from...
by Bruce Brown | March 16, 2021 | Health
Nearly every day brings new announcements or reports of studies about remote patient management (RPM). The COVID-19 pandemic boosted the pace of RPM adoption, but the requisite technologies were already in place. According to a recent survey by VivaLNK, RPM will be...
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by Bruce Brown | March 15, 2021 | Medical
Retinal implants hold great promise for people with severe vision impairment including blindness. We’ve covered several retinal implant technology developments. For example, Oxford University’s Department of Chemistry created biological synthetic soft...
by Amantha May | March 15, 2021 | Medical
Who’s a good boy? A medical detection dog with a nose that can identify the presence of disease much earlier than a doctor or laboratory. Medical detection dogs can identify several types of cancer and other diseases with up to 99% accuracy. Some dogs can now...
by Bruce Brown | March 12, 2021 | Enabling Tech
Sweat suffers a bad rap, but Gatorade may change sweat’s status with a new biomarker patch. We’ve written many times about sweat’s potential as a source of medical biomarkers. Most recently we covered UK startup Sweati’s ongoing development of...
