Smart Fabric Reduces Injury and Speeds Recovery

by Bruce Brown | April 17, 2019 | Enabling Tech

As a working concept, smart fabric solves many challenges for wearable health tech. If your preferred or prescribed biometric sensors are woven into your garments, you won’t have to remember to put them on, unlike with wristbands, pins, and pendants....

Consumers Gain Access to Hearing Health [video]

by Bruce Brown | April 16, 2019 | Health

Nuheara continues its role as a leading force among hearables companies. We’ve seen several companies start and then back out of the hearables device space, including Doppler Labs and Bragi (although Bragi has shifted focus to software and hearables platform...

Diabetes Management System Now Free [video]

by Alfred Poor | April 16, 2019 | Medical

The 30 million people with diabetes in the U.S. have more information than ever to support the treatment of their illness, both collectively and individually. Some people have even successfully reversed the effects of Type 2 diabetes. But the task of tracking all...

Smartphones Guide Patients to Healthcare[video]

by Bruce Brown | April 15, 2019 | Medical

Mobile wayfinding apps play an important role in healthcare. Google Maps and vehicle navigation systems may help you drive to a hospital, but increasingly large medical complexes remain a challenge to guide you from the parking lot to your specialist’s office...

Most Docs Favor Remote Patient Monitoring

by Bruce Brown | April 12, 2019 | Medical

Physicians remain the primary influence on consumer medical decisions. As digital health tech wearables continue to progress from athletic fitness aids to personal biometric trackers and, most recently, to clinical-grade patient monitoring devices, doctors’...

Soft Hands for Elderly Caregiver Robots [video]

by Bruce Brown | April 11, 2019 | Health

The world’s population is graying rapidly. According to the United Nations 2017 World Population Ageing report, in 2017 there were 962 million seniors 60 years or older, 137 million of whom were 80 or older. By 2050, the U.N. projects there will be almost 2.1...