by Bruce Brown | March 16, 2021 | Health
Nearly every day brings new announcements or reports of studies about remote patient management (RPM). The COVID-19 pandemic boosted the pace of RPM adoption, but the requisite technologies were already in place. According to a recent survey by VivaLNK, RPM will be...
by Bruce Brown | February 15, 2021 | Health, Medical
We don’t need to reiterate the U.S. and global statistics on obesity, overweight, and diabetes. The numbers are huge, scary, and in a good year, they hold at current levels. We’ve written many times about devices and programs to detect and manage Type 2...
by Bruce Brown | February 10, 2021 | Medical
In the CDC’s 2020 National Diabetes Statistics Report, the national health protection agency states that 34.2 million people in the U.S. have diabetes. That number represents 10.5% of the U.S. population, including 26.9 million diagnosed people and 7.3 million...
by Bruce Brown | November 12, 2020 | Health
Score another win for digital therapeutics. We’ve written about FDA approval for prescribed digital therapeutics, a Consumer Technology Association (CTA) initiative to develop a set of standards for digital therapeutics, and the pandemic’s influence in...
by Bruce Brown | October 8, 2020 | Fitness, Health
Step trackers and other fitness-related wearables launched in the early 21st century preceded most of the wearable health devices we write about on Health Tech Insider. However, a recent Abbott news release has an example of development in the opposite direction:...