by William McCleary | October 14, 2022 | Enabling Tech
Might breath be the way diabetes sufferers say goodbye to finger pricks for measuring blood glucose levels? Don’t hold yours just yet, but researchers at Canada’s University of Waterloo have created a diabetes-monitoring device that uses gas sensors to...
by Bruce Brown | October 13, 2022 | Health
This year the American Heart Association (AHA) added sleep to its list of behaviors and factors that can lessen a person’s risk of cardiovascular disease. We’ve covered a range of digital health technologies that track sleep and help improve sleep such as...
by Unber Shafiq | October 12, 2022 | Medical
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has announced final guidelines for Clinical Decision Support Software. The “Clinical Decision Support Software (CDS) Guidance” supplements the Agency’s proposed guidance of the same name issued in September 2019...
by William McCleary | October 12, 2022 | Health, Medical
The FDA and the VA have a new MOU — and it spells good things for emerging health tech. This new Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is a joint effort between the two...
by Bruce Brown | October 11, 2022 | Medical
Looking back through the pages of Health Tech Insider, the first reference to remote patient monitoring (RPM) was in a post by Alfred Poor in April, 2015. Alfred wrote about a new sensor for Vital Connect’s HealthPatch wearable sensor. Since 2015, we’ve...
by Bruce Brown | October 10, 2022 | Health
Instacart, the largest U.S. grocery shopping and delivery service, recently announced Instacart Health: an online platform with multiple services, tools, and partnerships to improve people’s health through nutritional eating. Citing 2022 USDA statistics,...