by Bruce Brown | February 20, 2020 | Medical
Wearable patch biosensor technology applications for in-hospital and remote patient monitoring are rapidly gaining traction as developers gain expertise. As predicted in 2017’s Connected Wearable Patches report, clinical applications of wearable patches are the...
by Bruce Brown | February 11, 2020 | Medical
We’ve written about Eko’s digital stethoscope technology several times. Most recently in December 2019, we reported that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration granted Eko Breakthrough Device status for the artificial intelligence algorithm designed to...
by Bruce Brown | May 23, 2019 | Health
Personal electrocardiogram (ECG) devices provide a view of the heart to help patients and physicians detect arrhythmia and other conditions. With ECGs, the more information the better, which translates to viewing the heart’s electrical activity from a greater...
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...
by Bruce Brown | December 19, 2018 | Medical
Heart disease and stroke rank among the top five causes of death in the United States, according to the latest figures from the CDC. Heart disease is in the unenviable first position on the list and stroke is number five. We have written about a variety of wearable...