Digital Health Companies Now Partner to Take on Chronic Conditions

by William McCleary | September 9, 2022 | Medical

Onduo is joining forces with Sword Health in a partnership designed to expand virtual care for people with diabetes and other chronic conditions. An Alphabet sister company of Google, Onduo by Verily focuses on digital therapeutics (DTx) for conditions including...

Donate Meals for Free With Your Exercise

by Bruce Brown | September 8, 2022 | Health

Are you looking for a new way to stay motivated for healthy daily exercise? Use San Diego-based Vizer’s eponymous mobile app and you can convert your daily workouts into meal donations at U.S. food banks. You can also win rewards with the same good habits. The...

Monitoring Patients in Their Homes Reduces COVID-19 Hospital Stays

by William McCleary | September 7, 2022 | Medical

Patients are seeing lower hospitalization rates with shorter stays and less time in intensive care units — all thanks to remote patient monitoring (RPM). This is according to an RPM study that was recently published in the American Medical Association’s JAMA...

Most Women Willing to Wear Heart Tracker During Pregnancy

by Unber Shafiq | September 7, 2022 | Medical

Wearable technology along with telehealth has extended clinical monitoring to patients’ homes. More and more patients are accepting remote medical care. A University of Washington Medicine-led study published in the Archives of Gynecology and Obstetrics explored...

Fitbit’s New Fall Lineup Expands Health Features [video]

by William McCleary | September 6, 2022 | Health, Medical

Would you call these devices smartwatches or health-tracking wearables? Fitbit continues to blur the line between the two categories with its new fall lineup, featuring updates of the Inspire 3, Versa 4, and Sense 2 devices that combine traditional smartwatch features...

Researchers Can Use Breathing Patterns to Detect Parkinson’s Disease

by Unber Shafiq | September 6, 2022 | Enabling Tech, Medical

Parkinson’s disease is difficult to diagnose primarily due to the late onset of typical symptoms such as tremors and slowness. Researchers from the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) at MIT and MIT Jameel Clinic have developed an AI model...