by Alfred Poor | October 1, 2018 | Enabling Tech, General News, Health, Medical
At Health Tech Insider, we typically post articles about individual projects, products, or research reports. We also generate all of our own content; we don’t publish submitted articles. So this article is a bit of a departure from our normal editorial scope. We...
![PinCh Wearable Challenge Winners Aid Vets [video]](https://i1.wp.com/healthtechinsider.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/9/2017/11/Pitt-Innovation-Challenge-group-2017.jpg?resize=599%2C275)
by Jim Ware | November 8, 2017 | General News, Health, Medical
One of the $125,000 winners in the 2017 Pitt Innovation Challenge uses good vibrations from a wearable device to help veterans control PTSD. Another wearable gives real-time visual feedback from prosthetic limbs to help lower-limb amputees learn to walk. In all, 13...
by Bruce Brown | November 1, 2017 | General News, Health
Telehealth technologies answer a growing need for care of patients with mental health disorders. Time savings, cost reduction, and the ability to provide service to people who are housebound or live in remote or distant locations mean that more people can have access...
![Device Stimulates the Brain for Mental Health Treatments [video]](https://i2.wp.com/healthtechinsider.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/9/2017/07/Fisher-Wallace-Stimulator-with-video-600x280.png?resize=600%2C280)
by Bruce Brown | July 6, 2017 | General News, Medical
Brain stimulation with wearable consumer or medical devices offers a wide range of possible helpful effects. We’ve looked at Thync Relax to alter moods, research at the University of Washington using direct brain stimulation to help people with spinal cord...
![Helmet Uses Magnetism to Treat Depression [video]](https://i2.wp.com/healthtechinsider.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/9/2016/07/Brainsway-Deep-TMS.png?resize=600%2C275)
by Alfred Poor | July 8, 2016 | General News, Medical
We’ve covered devices that are designed to send electrical currents through your head (such as “Coffee, Tea, or Thync?”) but this is about a product that uses magnetic fields instead. Brainsway has created a padded helmet that a patient wears for...
