Blood Pressure Watch to Start Sales [video]

by Bruce Brown | January 15, 2019 | Health

We first wrote about Omron’s HeartGuide oscillometric blood pressure monitoring watch last year following its initial unveiling at CES 2018. One year later, Omron has a release date and price for the highly anticipated wearable. According to Omron’s...

Analog Smartwatch Adds ECG [video]

by Bruce Brown | January 14, 2019 | Health

We have followed Withings’ wearable tech since Health Tech Insider’s launch in June 2014. In the ensuing years, the firm was bought by Nokia in 2016 and then bought back by Withings’ co-founder and former chairman Éric Carreel in 2018. This year at CES...

Adult Diabetes Management System Adapted for Children [video]

by Bruce Brown | January 11, 2019 | Health

Advances in diabetes management are among the most exciting in medical care, particularly with wearable continuous glucose monitors (CGM), insulin pumps, and algorithm-driven closed-loop artificial pancreas systems. We’ve written about Medtronic’s...

Smart Baby Monitor Tracks Diaper Status [video]

by Bruce Brown | January 10, 2019 | Health

Wearable tech companies build most devices for adults: for athletes and fitness buffs, for people who want to track one or more biomarkers, or for patients to whom doctors issue wearables to monitor vital signs and care plan compliance. Wearables built for babies and...

AI-Powered Network Searches for Medical Solutions

by Bruce Brown | January 9, 2019 | Enabling Tech

Artificial intelligence and machine learning algorithms feature in much of our coverage on Health Tech Insider. AI has clearly gone past tipping points of acceptance and application in medical science. Teams from institutions worldwide now routinely build and refine...

AI Predicts Patient Reaction to Chemotherapy

by Bruce Brown | January 8, 2019 | Medical

Cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy commonly suffer from sleep disturbances, anxiety, and depression among other side effects. We’ve written about technology that helps restore hair growth after chemotherapy. We also covered AFLAC’s smart pediatric...