by Bruce Brown | September 1, 2022 | Health, Medical
Last month the FDA cleared iRhythm’s Zio Watch wearable with Google healthcare software company Verily’s ZEUS (Zio ECG Utilization Software) for monitoring heart rhythms. We weren’t surprised to learn about the FDA clearance and fully expect other...
by Bruce Brown | August 23, 2022 | Enabling Tech
Researchers at The University of Chicago’s Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering (PME) are working on flexible, stretchy semiconductors for AI applications with human health wearables. Potential benefits of flexible electronic components for wearables include...
by Bruce Brown | July 18, 2022 | Enabling Tech, Health, Medical
Luxembourg-based LiveMetric recently added FDA clearance to the existing CE clearance for the company’s LiveOne wrist-worn cuff-less blood pressure monitor. Cuffless BP monitoring is one of the holiest grails of wearable digital health technology...
by Bruce Brown | July 12, 2022 | Health, Medical
If digital health tech is going to be a fundamental part of healthcare going forward, then we need to be on guard against practices that encourage a digital divide. A team of researchers from the Massachusetts General Hospital, Demoulas Center for Cardiac Arrhythmias...
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...