by Alfred Poor | March 7, 2017 | Fitness, General News, Health
As we’ve been saying, the trajectory for wearable Health Tech devices is going to be away from the products limited to fitness tracking, and toward more health and medical measurements that will be helpful in diagnosing illness in the early stages when treatment...
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by Alfred Poor | February 16, 2017 | General News, Health
One of the key health indicators is blood pressure. It used to be that you had to go to a doctor’s office or clinic to get it measured, but now you can choose from a host of home blood pressure devices, some of which are even “connected” so that they...
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by Bruce Brown | January 31, 2017 | General News, Health
Parenting and wearable technology for babies are a growing market, answering the desire of parents to be sure everything is fine with their babies, especially newborns. Moving beyond traditional baby monitors, newer technology tracks and reports biometrics to parents....
by Alfred Poor | January 31, 2017 | Enabling Tech, General News
Two of the big themes for wearable Health Tech these days are accuracy and lower power. Companies are raising the bar higher and higher on what is acceptable accuracy for wearable devices. And users want devices that last longer between charges, but at the same time...
by Alfred Poor | January 25, 2017 | General News, Health, Medical
Wearable devices now routinely track heart beats (though some do so with more accuracy than others), but one biometric measure remains elusive: blood pressure (BP). There are plenty of automated blood pressure cuffs on the market, including models that will...
