Geisinger is launching a pilot program in partnership with virtual heart failure monitoring startup Bodyport. About 200 of the health system's heart failure patients will be using Bodyport’s cardiac scale at home — the scale uses sensors to measure a person’s metrics of heart function and body fluid status after they stand on it for about 20 seconds.
Cala Health recently launched its kIQ system — which it calls the first noninvasive wearable device cleared by the FDA to temporarily relieve tremors in people with essential tremor and Parkinson’s disease.
Munck Wilson Mandala Partner Greg Howison shared his perspective on some of the legal ramifications around AI, IP, connected devices and the data they generate, in response to emailed questions.
with the right technology, healthcare organizations in the year ahead can become more efficient, make quality care accessible to more people, reduce their recruiting and hiring costs, prevent mistakes, and deliver better outcomes for themselves, their workers and their patients.
One technology that has tremendous potential to both broaden and improve access to preventive healthcare is wearable biosensing — more specifically, the continuous, non-invasive monitoring of multiple biomarkers from a smartwatch or wristband.
Consumer-led healthcare will change patient care pathways, driving the industry to grow and collaborate in new ways, both with patients around their own health and with partners and innovators.
As consumers better understand their right to medical privacy, they will have higher expectations for wellness wearables that aren’t bound to data privacy regulations.
At the Abarca Forward conference earlier this year, George Van Antwerp, managing director at Deloitte, discussed how social determinants of health and a personalized member experience can improve medication adherence and health outcomes.
For a long time, doctors’ offices, large or small, operated under a seeming contradiction; even as modern medicine pushed the frontiers of innovation, providing new treatments and sometimes cures for devastating diseases, so much of our healthcare system remained stuck in the pre-digital past. The most obvious example is one that many of us have […]
Medical technology startup Sibel Health recently closed a $33 million Series B funding round. It will use the funds to grow the company and scale commercialization of its Anne One platform, which captures users’ vital signs using wearable sensors.
Early indications show that remote patient monitoring holds promise in advancing value-based care. But healthcare providers and practice managers need to consider several factors before they begin to integrate RPM and wearables into their practices and decision-making processes.
With rising challenges facing the medical community in the coming years, and as the U.S. population grows more unhealthy, digital devices will be a critical solution for patient care and remote patient monitoring.
We will highlight Build My Health's revenue practice management tools, which could help physician practices add up to $250,000 to their practices.
Fitbit users can now link their accounts to All of Us precision medicine research project to help researchers better understand the relationship between fitness and wellness metrics and larger health outcomes.
The device failure was traced to a fault that prevents the LifeVest from charging its high-energy capacitors, according to the alert.
Clinical wearables have the potential to streamline healthcare industry costs and operations worldwide cannot and should not be ignored.