by Bruce Brown | July 15, 2020 | Health
Despite pandemic-related supply chain issues, wearables shipments worldwide grew 29.7% year over year during the first quarter of 2020 according to IDC’s Worldwide Quarterly Wearable Device Tracker. Smartwatch and regular watch numbers declined, but wristband...
by Amantha May | July 15, 2020 | Health
In keeping with the telemedicine and remote patient monitoring trend, AliveCor has announced KardiaCare which is a new service that helps patients monitor their hearts’ health at home. KardiaCare works with AliveCor’s consumer ECG devices: KardiaMobile and...
by Bruce Brown | July 14, 2020 | Enabling Tech
Smart clothing, smart fabrics, and smart yarns have great potential for a wide range of wearable applications. If your shirt can track vital signs data and your pants can monitor your workouts, you don’t need separate wearable devices. We’ve written in the...
by Bruce Brown | July 13, 2020 | Enabling Tech
Scientists at the Stuttgart-based Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems (MPI-IS) have developed a microrobot that theoretically can deliver drugs to specific locations in the human body via the circulatory system. To date, the engineers have tested the...
by Amantha May | July 13, 2020 | Medical
Health tech offerings of late have frequently focused on remote patient monitoring and its benefits in reducing the risk of COVID-19 for healthcare workers. Obtaining high accuracy biometrics, however, usually requires a stationary device available only in onsite...
by Amantha May | July 10, 2020 | Health, Medical
In a recent brief, the American Medical Association expressed concern over “an increasing number of reports from national, state and local media suggesting increases in opioid-related mortality” due to the COVID-19 crisis. Now, Masimo has announced its latest product,...
