by Bruce Brown | July 15, 2021 | Medical
Continuous vital sign monitoring that produces clinical-grade data while wearers go about their daily lives is a shiny brass ring for the wearable technology industry. We’ve argued in the past that passive devices that track data with no active user involvement...
by Bruce Brown | July 2, 2021 | Medical
Remote patient monitoring (RPM) and telemedicine are major themes in our health tech coverage these days. The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated telemedicine adoption, but we have been writing about telemonitoring and telehealth applications since 2014. Essence SmartCare...
by Bruce Brown | June 30, 2021 | Health
Wearables continue to prove their worth in clinical trials. We originally wrote about Blue Spark Technologies’ TempTraq in June 2015. At the time we took note of the wearable’s thin, lightweight, and convenient wireless continuous temperature monitor...
by Bruce Brown | May 20, 2021 | Medical
Remote patient monitoring (RPM) continues to rack up significant new medical care applications. Paris-based Tilak Healthcare recently announced a pilot program with Novartis to use Tilak’s OdySight remote vision monitoring app. Following an earlier successful...
by Bruce Brown | May 19, 2021 | Medical
We wrote about the Amazon Care launch in 2019 when Amazon began offering telehealth services to company employees in the Seattle area. We also covered the CB Insights 2020 Healthcare Survey results which found that 30% of the respondents named Amazon as the tech giant...