by Alfred Poor | June 15, 2017 | General News, Health
Crowd-funding has helped many Health Tech devices raise development funds and build a market for new products. Some campaigns have extraordinary success. For example, consider the Hello from Sense. This sleep-tracking device ran a Kickstarter campaign three years ago...
by Bruce Brown | June 1, 2017 | General News, Health
Wearable Health Tech for young children typically focuses on monitoring vital signs of sick kids. Another use case is a wearable that tracks health records in remote areas in the world where healthcare is intermittent and parents may not understand or value regular...
by Alfred Poor | May 19, 2017 | General News, Health
One of the recurring themes here on Health Tech Insider is that the path for success for wearable devices is to add features and do more. Take sleep sensors as an example. Most of them track your motion while you sleep, and some will also track heart rate. From this...
by Bruce Brown | May 17, 2017 | General News, Health
The Ava Fertility Tracker wristband and mobile app combination is adding pregnancy monitoring features to the mobile app. We originally wrote about Ava in July 2016. Ava’s accuracy in detecting the 5.3 most fertile days of a woman’s cycle was...
by Alfred Poor | May 17, 2017 | General News, Health
Many couples across the U.S. and around the world want to have children but they struggle with getting pregnant. There are many products that purport to detect peak fertility for prospective mothers, but many — such as basal temperature systems — are...