by Amantha May | July 31, 2020 | General News, Health
According to a recent poll by the Kaiser Family Foundation, 45% of adults in the United States feel that the COVID-19 pandemic has affected their mental health. In response to this growing mental health crisis, Hims, Inc. a disruptive telehealth company, is now...
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by Bruce Brown | July 30, 2020 | Health
Occasionally when we write about wearables on Health Tech Insider, the topic is clothing. Smart shirts are most common. In the past few months, for example, we wrote about Chronolife’s KeeSense smart t-shirt developed for remote patient monitoring. We covered...
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by Bruce Brown | July 29, 2020 | Medical
As if a diagnosis of glaucoma isn’t bad enough, the progressive disease is the second leading cause of blindness worldwide according to the World Health Organization. An undetected and untreated IOP increase can result in permanent blindness due to optic nerve...
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by Amantha May | July 29, 2020 | Enabling Tech, Health
People who rely on a wheelchair have limited access to natural landscapes because wheelchairs don’t have the power or strength to handle off-road conditions. All-terrain wheelchairs can help, but these vehicles have a high price tag; reliable models can cost...
by Bruce Brown | July 28, 2020 | Medical
Sepsis is a killer; the CDC reports that each year at least 1.7 million adults in the U.S. develop sepsis, and one in three patients who die in a hospital have sepsis. Assigning the cause of death to sepsis is tricky because it’s not a disease nor an infectious...
by Bruce Brown | July 27, 2020 | Health
During the past six years, we’ve written about a wide variety of sleep technology devices designed to improve sleep duration and quality. Most devices simply report on the quality of your sleep, measured most often in the amount of time you spend in light sleep,...
