by Bruce Brown | September 2, 2016 | Medical
Earlier this year we wrote about Medtronics’ closed loop systems for controlling blood sugar levels for diabetics. These systems include continuous glucose monitors (GCMs) and insulin pumps. At the time, while approved for use in Europe, the FDA did not allow...
![Samsung WELT Tells You When You’re Getting Fat [video]](https://i0.wp.com/healthtechinsider.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/9/2016/09/WELT-Smart-Belt-with-video-600x271.jpg?resize=600%2C271)
by Bruce Brown | September 1, 2016 | Health
If you’re out to dinner and decide to just let go and overeat, you can always just loosen your belt a notch and no one will be the wiser, right? Well, you won’t get away with it with a Welt Corporation WELT. The WELT belt tracks your waist size, steps,...
![Medical Grade Heart Rate Monitoring off the Top of Your Head [video]](https://i0.wp.com/healthtechinsider.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/9/2016/09/Spree-with-video-600x278.jpg?resize=600%2C279)
by Bruce Brown | August 31, 2016 | General News, Health
Whether you’re tracking your heart rate for general fitness or for a more specific wellness concern, there are many choices. You can wear wristbands, armbands, or even chest straps which many have considered the most accurate, if not the most comfortable. Now...
by Bruce Brown | August 30, 2016 | General News, Medical
As many parents of small children can tell you, hand a tablet or smartphone to a cranky kid and let them watch a video or play with an app to calm them down. As it turns out, there may be a medical application for this same solution. Pediatric surgery typically...
![Sleep Optimization and Doziness Alert on Your Wrist [video]](https://i0.wp.com/healthtechinsider.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/9/2016/09/Sleepman-with-video-600x278.jpg?resize=600%2C276)
by Bruce Brown | August 29, 2016 | General News, Health
Sleep insufficiency hasn’t gone away, no matter how much we write about it. We’ve covered Health Tech that purports to help with sleep by controlling brainwaves, with smart earplugs, by cutting down on social media use, by reducing blue light exposure,...
