by Amantha May | August 17, 2020 | General News, Medical
A wearable monitoring system that helps reduce the risk of spreading COVID-19 in hospitals and care facilities is now available in the United States. The system, designed specifically for the COVID-19 crisis by VivaLNK, has been used successfully in 15 hospitals in...
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by Bruce Brown | August 14, 2020 | Health
Pre-pandemic, it would have been hard to imagine that 2020 would see a raft of new products to protect people’s health by keeping them apart. Today, however, social distancing is a new term to describe a key prophylactic measure to prevent — or at least...
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by Amantha May | August 14, 2020 | General News, Health
Early this year, as the COVID-19 pandemic began to spread across Asia, one company made a fast pivot to provide a solution that could help to flatten the curve. Drawing on monitoring technology initially used in maternity wards and nursing homes, TraceSafe developed a...
by Bruce Brown | August 13, 2020 | Health
Take a seat. That’s what’s required to use a new health tech form factor. We often write about wearable wristbands, pins, headbands, and hearables, as well as implants and carryables with embedded biometric sensors. HeartHealth Intelligence is developing...
by Bruce Brown | August 13, 2020 | Enabling Tech
Flexible electronics developed for health tech wearables have several advantages over rigid devices. Great comfort and stealthiness may also boost patient compliance for continuous monitoring when necessary. Powering flexible wearable tech is challenge, however....
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by Amantha May | August 12, 2020 | General News, Health
The Canadian-based company eSight Corp introduced its first-generation, high-tech vision enhancement glasses in 2013. The original eSight, which improved both close-up and distance vision for the visually impaired, was followed by eSight 2 in 2015 and eSight 3 in...
