by Bruce Brown | January 8, 2020 | Health
Omron Healthcare has long been a standard for clinical and consumer blood pressure monitors. At CES 2018, Omron introduced the HeartGuide smartwatch built around an oscillometric blood pressure monitor (the type that squeezes your arm) with a companion smartphone app...
by Bruce Brown | January 7, 2020 | Enabling Tech
Health insurance giant Humana underscored the significance of the role of digital health technology when it launched Humana Studio H in Boston’s Seaport District in 2018. At its conception, Studio H set out to foster tech development in provider workflow...
by Bruce Brown | January 6, 2020 | General News
Each year in January and July, the Consumer Technology Association (CTA) publishes its U.S. Consumer Technology Sales and Forecasts report. The CTA released its latest report on January 5, 2020 at the CES 2020 show in Las Vegas. For the first time, the CTA’s...
by Bruce Brown | January 3, 2020 | Health
Quality sleep is elusive for many of us. According to a report on short sleep duration by the CDC in 2014, 35.2% of U.S. adults have short sleep duration, which is defined as less than seven hours of sleep within each 24-hour period. In recent years, we have covered a...
by Bruce Brown | January 2, 2020 | Health
As if older people didn’t already have enough to monitor with their health and wellness, bladder and bowel incontinence are also associated with age-related physiological factors and interactions with other chronic conditions such as diabetes, stroke, and...
by Bruce Brown | January 1, 2020 | Health
Biometric sensors integrated into clothing enable unobtrusive, continuous monitoring for a variety of applications. We’ve written about Hexoskin, a shirt developed at Radboud University Medical School in the Netherlands that measures breathing in patients with...
