by Bruce Brown | March 11, 2022 | Medical
The FDA recently granted Breakthrough Device Designation for the use of Dexcom’s continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) with diabetic patients in hospitals. Chalk up yet another potential digital health tech win with direct ties to the COVID-19 pandemic. The FDA...
by Amantha May | March 11, 2022 | Health
Food Marble, an Irish company providing digital digestive health solutions, has launched the Aire 2, a second-generation personal breath testing device. An at-home test solution that assists in diagnosing and managing digestive issues, the original Aire offers an...
by Alfred Poor | March 10, 2022 | Enabling Tech
One of our basic beliefs here at Health Tech Insider is that wearables and other devices won’t succeed at scale until they “disappear” into our lives. Too many devices require that users fuss with them: keep them charged, update the software, pair...
by Alfred Poor | March 9, 2022 | Enabling Tech, Medical
One of the elusive holy grails of health tech is a non-invasive measurement of blood glucose levels. We’ve been writing about developments in this field since at least 2015, but we still do not have an FDA-cleared solution. Unfortunately, the general media is...
by Bruce Brown | March 8, 2022 | Medical
Alexa made it to the big leagues. When we first wrote about Amazon’s smart voice assistant Alexa’s role in digital health the topics included applications such as on-demand news and weather reports for visually impaired people, explaining medications, and...
by Bruce Brown | March 7, 2022 | Health
Smartwatches have been in the mainstream for several years. The announcement of a new smartwatch generally doesn’t warrant coverage on Health Tech Insider unless the maker claims to have something special that’s relevant to health and wellness technology....
