by Bruce Brown | October 29, 2020 | Health, Medical
Fitness trackers do more than just count your steps. A new study published by the Scripps Research Translational Institute today in Nature shows that activity trackers and personal health sensing devices such as Fitbits and smartwatches can improve COVID-19 detection....
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by Bruce Brown | October 5, 2020 | Medical
Recently developed technologies continue to play significant roles in the war against the COVID-19 pandemic. In the last few months, we’ve written about AI applications that predict COVID-19 in hospital admissions, HoloLens2 augmented reality headsets assisting...
by Bruce Brown | September 14, 2020 | Health
Health officials recommend that people wear masks to help reduce the spread of the COVID-19 virus. However, this prudent practice can make it harder to understand what others are saying. People with normal hearing often attend to facial expressions and lip movement to...
by Bruce Brown | September 4, 2020 | Health
After two months of study with more than 100,000 Fitbit users in the trial and 1000+ positive COVID-19 virus reports, Fitbit has released preliminary results from its early disease detection work. The wearables company experts are employing machine learning and...
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by Bruce Brown | August 31, 2020 | Health
Lobby and entryway body temperature checks are commonplace in our pandemic-altered world. I’ve had my forehead scanned so often in the last few months, I’ve come up with a series of one-liners about “being cool.” COVID-19 is no joke, however,...
