What You Should Know: - Rockley Photonics Holdings Limited, a global leader in photonics-based health monitoring and communications solutions, recently announced that it has developed what it believes to be the world’s first micro-transfer-printed (mTP) silicon-photonics-based laser for commercial applications. - This groundbreaking achievement is expected to allow Rockley to further increase the density and reduce the size of its high-density spectrophotometer chips — which are already
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Fitbit & Google Cloud Launches Device Connect for Fitbit
What You Should Know: - Today, Fitbit Health Solutions and Google Cloud are introducing Device Connect for Fitbit, which empowers healthcare and life sciences enterprises with accelerated analytics and insights to help people live healthier lives. - Fitbit data from their consenting users is made available through the Fitbit Web API, providing users with control over what data they choose to share and ensuring secure data storage and protection. Unlocking
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HCA Makes Strategic Investment in Cardiac Monitoring Wearable VitalConnect
What You Should Know: - VitalConnect®, Inc., a leader in remote and in-hospital wearable biosensor technology, has just announced the completion of an investment funded by Health Insight Capital, the investment arm of HCA Healthcare Inc., (NYSE: HCA), one of the nation’s leading healthcare providers. - The investment will go toward further accelerating VitalConnect’s rapidly growing cardiac monitoring business segment while advancing key Remote Patient Monitoring of individuals who
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Medtronic-BioIntelliSense Partnership Expands Access to RPM Wearables
What You Should Know: - Medtronic announces partnership with BioIntelliSense for exclusive U.S. distribution of multi-parameter wearable for continuous remote patient monitoring from in-hospital to home. - The partnership enables Medtronic to offer access to BioIntellSense’s BioButton® multi-parameter wearable device, which provides scalable personalized patient care, greater workflow automation and proactive clinical interventions for hospitals facing increasing costs and growing
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Epicore & Denka Partner to Tackle Dehydration Crisis in Asia via Sweat-Sensing Wearable
What You Should Know: - Epicore Biosystems today announced a partnership with Denka Corporation, a Japan-based multinational technology and materials company. - Under the agreement, Epicore Biosystems and Denka will collaborate on strategic initiatives to pilot and distribute Epicore’s portfolio of advanced wearable hydration solutions in Japan and expand into Asia markets. Tackling Asia’s Dehydration Crisis Through Sweat-Sensing Wearable Technology Founded in 2017, Epicore
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Medable Partners with Withings Health Solutions to Integrate Health Devices in Decentralized Clinical Trials
What You Should Know: - Medable Inc., the leading SaaS platform provider for patient-centered clinical trials, today announced a new partnership with Withings Health Solutions, the business-to-business division of Withings, one of the global leaders in at-home connected health - Withings’ devices will seamlessly connect to Medable’s decentralized clinical trial platform, reducing the burden on sponsors and sites while empowering patients to participate in trials from home.
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StimScience Launches Wearable Sleep Aid That Actually Improves Sleep
What You Should Know: - StimScience, the company using personalized neuroscience to improve sleep, today announces its new consumer sleep product, Somnee. Somnee is the first-ever electronic sleep aid headband to use personalized non-invasive brain stimulation to improve the wearer’s sleep quality. - In a 1,500-night home pilot study, Somnee cut the time it took beta users to fall asleep in half, and it reduced the amount of overnight tossing and turning by more than one-third. As
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Houston Methodist Taps BioIntelliSense to Advance Remote Care and Clinical Intelligence Solutions
What You Should Know: - Houston Methodist and Colorado-based BioIntelliSense, a continuous health monitoring and clinical intelligence company, today announced a new collaboration to advance remote monitoring and analytics technologies across the healthcare continuum, from in-hospital to at-home. - BioIntelliSense’s FDA-cleared BioSticker™ and medical-grade BioButton® wearable devices, along with its algorithmic-based data services, enable effortless remote data capture and continuous
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Cardiologs’ AI Dramatically Reduces Inconclusive Apple Watch ECGs
What You Should Know: - Cardiologs, a provider of artificial intelligence (AI) cardiology diagnostics, today announced the results of a new clinical study that showed Cardiologs’ deep learning AI dramatically reduces inconclusive results returned by the latest Apple Watch ECG companion app (Apple ECG 2.0) while maintaining performance (sensitivity and specificity). - The study included 101 patients in a typical tertiary care hospital who were assessed for atrial arrhythmia (AA). It
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Respira Labs Secures $2.8M to Expand Clinical-Grade Respiratory Health Wearable
What You Should Know: - Respira Labs, a Latina-led medical technology company specializing in respiratory care, today announces it has closed $2.8M to continue to develop and produce its clinical-grade respiratoryhealth wearable that uses acoustic resonance to assess lung function and identify changes in lung air volume, which is especially critical for COPD, COVID-19 and asthma patients. - Respira Labs raised $1 million in pre-seed funding led by Zentynel Frontier Investments with
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