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by Bruce Brown | January 23, 2023 | Health
Fossil was one of the earliest early smart watch brands to bring style to the device platform. The smart apps in Fossil’s earliest lineups focused on activity tracking, not wellness. Fossil announced Gen 6 smart watches with new blood oxygen and heart rate...
by Bruce Brown | December 5, 2022 | Medical
The FDA recently granted 510(k) clearance to market H20 therapeutics’ prescription-only Parky App for the Apple Watch smart watch. In a longitudinal study published in Science Translational Medicine, the app has promise as technology to support patient-client...
by Bruce Brown | March 14, 2022 | Health, Medical
Just because wearable digital health devices can track biometric data and send alerts, that doesn’t mean the alerts make a difference in health outcomes. In 2015, we wrote about an Apple Watch user who contacted his cardiologist after noticing extreme heart rate...
by Bruce Brown | March 7, 2022 | Health
Smartwatches have been in the mainstream for several years. The announcement of a new smartwatch generally doesn’t warrant coverage on Health Tech Insider unless the maker claims to have something special that’s relevant to health and wellness technology....
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by Bruce Brown | January 14, 2021 | Health
We’ve written about smart fall detection systems for elderly people numerous times. In 2015, we covered Simple Wearables’ SimpleWave, a passive wearable to detect falls and send alerts including both the incident and the strength of impact to care...
