by Amantha May | February 19, 2021 | Medical
Social distancing has fueled much innovation in the past year, especially when it comes to telehealth services. However, social isolation resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic has interrupted recovery for patients with opioid addiction. Some states have reported higher...
by Bruce Brown | February 18, 2021 | Medical
For several years experts have warned about security threats to personal health data. In 2018, ECRI Institute singled out cybersecurity as the most significant in its 2019 Top 10 Health Technology Hazards report. Also in 2018, a group of studies and reports found that...
by Bruce Brown | February 17, 2021 | Medical
We write about wearables of all sorts. We’ve covered wearables to track steps, check heart rates, monitor breathing rates, measure blood glucose levels, and even record ECGs. Depending on how far you push the definition of a wearable, the field of devices and...
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by Amantha May | February 17, 2021 | Health
Renovia, a digital women’s health company, recently completed enrollment for a large clinical trial intended to validate the company’s signature product, the leva Digital Therapeutic System. The system is designed to help treat women with bladder control....
by Bruce Brown | February 16, 2021 | Health
The widening scope of telehealth, telemedicine, and remote patient monitoring (RPM) now extends to eating disorder treatment. San Diego’s Equip recently announced funding that will enable expansion of its evidence-based eating disorder treatment. Equip’s...
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by Bruce Brown | February 15, 2021 | Health, Medical
We don’t need to reiterate the U.S. and global statistics on obesity, overweight, and diabetes. The numbers are huge, scary, and in a good year, they hold at current levels. We’ve written many times about devices and programs to detect and manage Type 2...
