Fitbit announced that it has appointed Adam Pellegrini Vice President of Digital Health starting September 6th to lead Fitbit's vision and strategy of driving its integration into healthcare systems worldwide. In his new role, Pellegrini is responsible for helping Fitbit connect its products, information, data and insights in new and innovative ways into clinical settings. He will also focus on developing new partnerships with healthcare systems, insurers and other payers, pharma companies and
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Fitbit, Fitabase Reaches Over 200 Clinical Studies to Date MIlestone
Fitabase, a research platform that collects data from internet-connected devices and wearable fitness maker Fitbit announced that it has completed over 200+ clinical studies to incorporate activity, sleep, and heart rate data. Some of the leading research institutions include Johns Hopkins University, Northwestern University, the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, and the University of California San Diego. Over the last four years, Fitbit and Fitabase have helped researchers
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Target Adds MonBaby’s Wearable Baby Monitor to ‘Connected Living’ Line
Target will soon expand its ‘connected living’ offerings with the addition of wearable breathing and rollover monitor MonBaby. Manufactured by MonDevices, Inc., MonBaby is a baby monitor that snaps onto any article of a child's clothing in the form of a smart button that sends a baby’s stats to parents via a complementary smartphone app.MonBaby brings peace of mind to new parents by sending smartphone alerts about body position, breathing (on the back or stomach), sleep position and proximity
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Study: Wearables Increased Referral Rate for Advanced Therapy in Parkinson’s Disease
Great Lakes NeuroTech has completed and published a clinical study validating that remote monitoring with wearable, objective sensors can lead to an increased referral rate for advanced therapies in Parkinson’s disease.Published in The Journal of Parkinson’s Disease, the protocol followed 40 patients with Parkinson’s disease randomized into two groups for one year. The control group received standard care for assessing Parkinson’s disease, while the other used wearable, objective sensors
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Is Wearable Technology the Future of Medicine?
Look down at your wrist. Are you wearing a FitBit, an Apple Watch, or some other type of fitness monitoring device, like a Jawbone or Garmin? If you do, you aren’t alone. More than 1 in 5 Americans own a wearable fitness tracker, and at least 1 in 10 wears the monitor every day. In fact, wearable fitness trackers are so popular that 2016 has been declared the “Year of the Wearable.” It’s not just fancy pedometers that are grabbing attention, though. Other devices, such as monitors for diabetics
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Fitbit Rolls Out New, Personalized Sleep Schedule Feature
Wearable fitness leader, Fitbit, today unveiled a new, personalized sleep schedule feature to help millions of Fitbit users around the world improve their sleep consistency and overall health. Available now, Sleep Schedule features on the Fitbit app will help you meet your sleep goals and maintain a more consistent pattern of sleep through these tools:- Sleep Goal: Based on your sleep data from your Fitbit tracker, you can follow the app’s personalized recommendations or set your target number
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Fitbit Launches New Corporate Wellness Service, Fitbit Group Health
Wearable fitness leader, Fitbit, today announced the launch of a new corporate wellness service, Fitbit Group Health, which brings together offerings to corporate partners, weight management leaders, insurers, researchers. Additionally, the company introduced Wellness Insighter, a new service for its customers that helps corporate wellness leaders validate corporate wellness investments with data that can be compared against that of industry peers. These offerings were introduced as part of
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Polar Wearables Integrates with Validic To Enhance Corporate Wellness Programs
Wearable sports technology provider Polar, today announced its partnership with digital integration platform Validic. Through the integration of its wearables with Validic's platform, Polar will bring its trusted heart rate technology and activity tracking devices to a variety of corporate wellness and remote monitoring programs.Polar products make it easy for organizations to implement corporate and preventative wellness programs that reward employees for their efforts in leading a physically
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Sensifree Lands $5M for Contactless Biometric Monitoring Sensors
Sensifree, an Israeli digital health startup provider of low power, contact free, electromagnetic sensors that accurately collect a range of continuous biometric data without the need to touch the human body, today announced it has raised $5 million in Series A funding. The round was led by TransLink Capital with participation from existing and new investors, including UMC Capital, a subsidiary of United Microelectronics Corp. and an undisclosed strategic investor.The latest round adds to seed
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Practice Fusion Founder Launches Heart Monitoring Smartwatch – iBeat Life Monitor
After stepping down as the CEO of cloud-based EHR platform Practice Fusion in mid-2015, founder Ryan Howard is back with a new digital health startup focused on a life-saving Wearable-as-a-Service. The startup is currently developing its first product, iBeat Life Monitor, a heart monitoring smartwatch wearable that perpetually monitors and detects cardiac arrest, heart attack, and atrial fibrillation. Similar to your average medical alert system for seniors, in the case of a life-threatening
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