by Bruce Brown | January 31, 2020 | Medical
More than 90% of patients who have knee or hip replacement surgery experience postoperative lower extremity swelling (edema). Last year we wrote about Spryng’s battery-powered pneumatic wraps designed to apply rhythmic pressure to the lower legs to prevent...
by Bruce Brown | January 22, 2020 | Enabling Tech
We are fascinated by energy-harvesting technologies. When we read or hear about new continuous-monitoring biometric sensing wearables and medical implants, one of the first questions that come to mind is, “OK, but what’s the power source?” Frequent...
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by Bruce Brown | January 17, 2020 | Health
We’ve written about Withings multiple times on Health Tech Insider. We covered Withings’ wearables including smartwatches, smart scales, blood pressure monitors, ECG watches, temperature monitors, sleep aids, and more. We tracked Nokia’s acquisition...
by Bruce Brown | January 10, 2020 | Health
Does the world need another fitness band? Fitness bands, smartwatches, and wristband biometric monitoring devices deliver their greatest value when worn regularly. In the real world, unfortunately, when the wearer removes a device every day or so to recharge the...
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...
