New Smart Ring Diagnoses Sleep Apnea At Home

by Amantha May | February 15, 2021 | Health

Vivos Therapeutics has announced the launch of VivoScore, a comprehensive home sleep apnea test. VivoScore includes a wearable sensor ring and a mobile app with cloud-based AI that evaluates sleep quality to diagnose obstructive sleep apnea (OSA). Subjects can wear it...

CES 2021: New Over-the-Counter Hearing Aid Can Separate Voices [video]

by Bruce Brown | February 13, 2021 | Health

Market prognosticators Gartner and IDC predict that hearable product sales will continue to lead the growth in the wearable device shipments worldwide at least for the next three to five years. During CES 2021, Taipei-based Relajet announced the company will begin...

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...