Gone are the days when healthcare information was only available to us at the doctor’s office or through the office's online portals, and that’s in part due to the rapidly growing popularity of wearable technology devices. It’s estimated that 1 in 5 adults in the U.S. use a fitness or health tracker to monitor things such as heart rate, blood pressure, sleep cycle, and stress. But this information is being used beyond just monitoring specific conditions. Take me, for example; I personally use my
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FemTech: Samsung Adds Menstrual Cycle Tracking Capabilities to Galaxy Watch5
What You Should Know:
- Samsung Galaxy Watch5 users will soon be able to access temperature-based menstrual cycle tracking through the Cycle Tracking feature. This new capability was developed in partnership with Natural Cycles, a women’s health company and app maker, and marks the first time Natural Cycles’ algorithm has been adapted for a smartwatch.
- The partnership combines Natural Cycles’ fertility technology with Samsung’s BioActive Sensor to give users more detailed
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The Evolution from Hearing Aids to Wellness Devices
Here’s what we know from decades of research: Hearing loss affects health and well-being, but people with hearing loss are often reluctant to wear hearing aids. Of course, they’re doing themselves no favors. But when they do finally opt for hearing assistance (on average, about seven years after they learn they need it), we also now know that the longer people wear hearing aids — throughout the day, for instance, rather than just in certain situations — the healthier they tend to be. Better
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Vivalink Integrates with Garmin, Other Wearables to Address RPM Interoperability
What You Should Know:
- Vivalink is addressing these RPM interoperability challenges by announcing today that leading wearables and medical-grade devices are integrating with the company’s Biometrics Data Platform.
- Now, leading pulse oximeters, blood glucose monitors and sleep monitors by companies like Garmin and Roche are available alongside the Platform to accelerate development and deployment of novel healthcare applications and research.
Why It Matters
Integration and
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BioIntelliSense and Medically Home Partner to Enhance High Acuity Hospital Care at Home
What You Should Know:
- BioIntelliSense, Inc., a continuous health monitoring and clinical intelligence company, today announced it has entered into a strategic partnership with Medically Home Group, Inc., a technology-enabled services company that is at the forefront of the movement to decentralize care for serious or complex illnesses.
- The collaboration further expands the availability of continuous biometric data and insights to physicians and nurses caring for patients in the
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Fitbit Enters Substance Abuse Recovery with Pretaa Partnership
What You Should Know:
- Fitbit announced that they are partnering with behavioral analytics company Pretaa to improve outcomes for the millions of Americans affected by substance abuse. Pretaa analyzes information from wearable devices worn by those recovering from substance abuse and (with patient consent) notifies their care providers, friends and family members when they might need additional support.
- Research indicates that the onset of the pandemic was associated with an
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3M, Epicore Biosystems, Innovize Partner to Scale Sweat-Sensing Wearable Tech
What You Should Know:
- Epicore Biosystems, a digital health company developing advanced sweat-sensing wearables to provide real-time personalized hydration insights for performance and safety, today announced a new collaboration with 3M’s Health Care Business, a manufacturer and distributor of medical products and solutions, and Innovize Inc. (Innovize), a custom medical device manufacturer.
- Leveraging 3M’s leading skin-interfacing materials and Innovize’s manufacturing capabilities,
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Rockley Photonics Develops Smaller, Powerful Chip for Health Wearables
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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