by Alfred Poor | March 18, 2019 | Health
Here are two apparently unrelated facts. About 13% of people in the U.S. aged 12 years or older have hearing loss in both ears. According to some sources, nearly half of fitness band owners have stopped wearing them after just six months. So what’s the...
by Alfred Poor | November 30, 2018 | General News, Health
One of the themes that we repeat here at Health Tech Insider is our market analysis that the wearables market is shifting. Instead of selling single units to individual consumers, companies will sell tens or hundreds (or thousands) of units at a time to large...
by Bruce Brown | September 12, 2018 | General News, Health
After the cool factor wears off with health and wellness wearables, ease of use and unobtrusiveness matter more when people move to the next thing and get on with their lives. In order to convince most people to continue to use wearables and to attract new...
by Bruce Brown | August 16, 2018 | General News, Medical
Subjective reporting about healthy behaviors results in data that are shaky at best and outright wrong and misleading in the worst cases. A metastudy of medical adherence at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health published in 2014 found patient noncompliance...
by Kimberly Houston | October 5, 2017 | Fitness, General News, Health
Smartwatches promise to make our lives easier and more efficient, but there’s a drawback. While traditional watches can run for months or even years, the battery life on most smartwatches is typically one to three days. A watch that harvests energy from outside...