A New Dawn in Patient Empowerment is Upon Us
Wearables don’t just tell us what a patient is doing — they can help us understand the context, the when and why. By linking behavior with context, we gain insights that self-reporting could never reveal.
Oura Will Now Share Its Sleep Scores With CGM Providers
Oura — a company selling a ring that tracks peoples’ biometrics — announced new partnerships with three providers of continuous glucose monitors: January, Supersapiens and Veri. These companies will now be receiving sleep scores and other biometric data from Oura so they can see how these measurements affect users’ glucose levels and overall health.
Solera Health’s Playbook To Beat Rising Employer Expenses
Solera Health is working to streamline employer contracting with health tech.
With Halo Shutdown, Amazon Has Now Closed 3 of Its Healthcare Divisions Since 2021
Amazon recently announced that it is shuttering its Halo division, a line of wearable health and fitness devices. This marks the third time in about two years that the e-commerce giant has closed one its healthcare businesses — Amazon Care failed last year, and Haven failed in 2021.
How wearable devices empower healthcare providers
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.
How UnitedHealthcare members can pay for their Apple Watch by walking
Participants in the insurer's Motion wearables wellness program can use their program rewards to purchase up to a $300 version of the Apple Watch 3.
4 questions every healthcare provider should ask about fitness wearables
While consumers dabble in the cool features and sleek user interface of their wearables, healthcare providers continue to ask one important question: Does this tsunami of patient-generated data ultimately belong in the medical record?
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Enhanced Direct Enrollment: Georgia Access and the Power of Partnership
Across the nation, state-based health insurance exchanges are searching for ways to better serve their communities while making enrollment easier, more personal, and more accessible for everyone.
Jawbone stops making Up fitness trackers, sells inventory
The Up liquidation may represent a pause or a clearing of the deck. Another report Friday said that Jawbone is working on a "Hail Mary" product, a clinical-grade wearable.
Connected Health highlights paradoxes in personal devices
Oprah Winfrey's investment in Weight Watchers might inspire some people to change their habits, but how many have personal chefs like she does?
Hype fizzles for consumer wearable devices
A new report suggests that once-explosive growth for fitness bands has been headed downward.
eClinicalWorks to integrate wearable data into EHR
In an effort to bring more useful data into its EHR, eClinicalWorks today said it will integrate data from wearables and fitness trackers from its wholly owned subsidiary healow. The data from the devices will be directed into a consumer’s personal health record via healow.com and the healow mobile application. It will also be available […]
As Healthcare and Biopharma Companies Embrace AI, Insurance Underwriters See Risks and Opportunities
In an interview, Munich Re Specialty Senior Vice President Jim Craig talked about the risk that accompanies innovation and the important role that insurers play.
Which health tech trends will make big bucks in 2015?
The world of technology is growing at a rapid pace, nothing new, but next year could involve some major cashing in for some health tech industries. With the help of some leading analyst firms, Business Insider put together a list of the trends that are predicted to be really booming next year. As far as health […]