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by Bruce Brown | December 29, 2022 | Medical
The 2022 BioIntellisense acquisition of AlertWatch underscores two of the most common themes in digital healthcare these days. We’ve seen a huge increase in remote patient monitoring (RPM) applications. We’ve also written about consolidation in health tech...
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by Bruce Brown | December 27, 2022 | Health
Sleep disorders are disturbingly common. Approximately one-third of U.S. adults self-report insufficient sleep, according to the CDC. Sleep disorders often accompany heart disease, obesity, depression, Type 2 diabetes, and other chronic diseases and conditions, When a...
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by Bruce Brown | May 17, 2022 | Enabling Tech
Scientists with MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) are developing technology that speeds up soft pneumatic actuator design. Soft actuators perform much of the lifting and moving of physical components in smart robotics,...
by Bruce Brown | May 2, 2022 | Enabling Tech
Wearable sensor developers may soon be thanking University of California Berkeley (UC Berkeley) engineers. A team from the University’s Berkeley Sensor and Actuator Center developed a relatively faster and cheaper way to produce sensor prototypes than the common...
by Bruce Brown | March 21, 2022 | Enabling Tech
The wearables market’s tremendous growth during the past decade continues to drive research and innovation. In its report Wearables Sensors 2021-2031, IDTechEx predicts that the annual market for sensors used in wearables will be greater than $5 billion by 2025....
