Vote in the Wearables Elite 8: Seizure tracking system vs. wearable defibrillator
Which company has more potential to make healthcare safer, cheaper or better? Vote Artefact’s Dialog or Zoll Medical’s Life Vest.
Elite 8: Wearable startups tracking cancer, seizures, heart trouble, babies
We just talked about how to move digital health beyond the healthiest people in the room. Many of the wearable companies who have survived to this round of the Wearables Sweet 16 are doing just that. Instead of tracking steps taken or floors climbed, these companies are aiming to diagnose breast cancer sooner, increase access […]
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In wearables Sweet Sixteen, mobile defibrillator vs wearable ECG device for monitoring cardiac patients
Considering that one of the big trends in healthcare is keeping people out of the hospital by making greater use of remote monitoring cardiac patients and other patient populations. There’s also been a decent amount of attention around the issue of improving access to defibrillators in public places. So we’ve got iHealth’s wearable ECG monitor, […]
Wearables Sweet Sixteen: A device to evaluate gait vs. seizure alert and tracker
This wearables matchup includes a design company and a medical device producer that approach their patient populations in two different ways. Biosensics’ LegSys device is made for evaluating the way patients walk to give a better sense of where they are in the development of their condition or recovery to deliver more targeted care. Artefact’s […]
In wearable device matchup Ollo Mobile faces Pebble smartwatch
A way to connect seniors with families over great distances — Ollo Mobile — and a smartwatch that syncs with Bluetooth devices are the unique wearable devices pitted against each other in our Sweet Sixteen bracket for wearables. The OlloMobile is a cloud-based phone that’s designed to help users communicate in emergencies even when there […]
Mimo baby monitor faces Lark sleep coach in this wearables matchup
Infants and sleep fit well together as subjects of wearable tracking technology. There’s the desire for another level of safety for parents. But for adults, studies that point to sleep as a key indicator of health, the increase in sleep apnea as well as the quantified self movement have helped drive the market for sleep […]
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This wearables matchup is an arm wrestle of gesture control by Playtabase and Thalmic Labs
It’s really interesting to see how many of the wearables market companies in this Sweet Sixteen competition are developing technology that fills a medical need. Playtabase’s gesture control band is tackling this market head on based on the co-founder’s experience with a family member’s stroke. Thalmic Labs is more about pushing the boundaries of gaming […]
Glasses as a color blind treatment vs. glasses to help nurses find veins
Continuing the glasses theme in the Wearables Tourney, a company with a potential color blind treatment EnChroma faces a cure for creating human pin cushion and improving patient safety that is Evena Medical’s Eyes-On-Glasses technology, which seeks to help medical professionals identify good veins. EnChroma is really solving a quality of life problem. Developed by […]
Google Glass as a telemedicine camera vs. tool for the visually impaired
As part of the Wearables Sweet Sixteen tourney, two wearables companies are pushing the boundaries of a 730 year-old piece of medtech: glasses. In addition to glasses, another thing Pristine and OrCam have in common is that their products involve more than just glasses: they’re cameras. Pristine uses Google Glass as a camera for another […]
In our Sweet 16 of wearable devices, which companies will have the biggest impact on healthcare?
It’s really interesting to see the transformation in the wearables market. On one level there has been a shift of tracking technology from uber athletes to the mass market where someone running a 5k can get the same meaningful information from their pulse and stride as an Olympic hopeful. Even cooler, wearable devices are being […]
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