Wearables
The Defence and Security Accelerator (DASA) is seeking examples of how data gathered from wearable technology can enhance health and wellbeing in soldiers. The defence community is looking at wearable devices as a way of gathering data that can be applied in tools that support and protect the capabilities of soldiers. By utilising the power [...]
An eating disorder charity is urging the government to consider the impact its new health app will have on people with eating disorders. A pilot scheme that will require users to don wrist-worn devices that can generate personalised health recommendations, such as increasing their step count, eating more fruit and vegetables and decreasing portions, will [...]
Wearables have been big news over the past few years, no more so than in the field of healthcare. And as the pandemic has changed the way we live, work and access healthcare, innovation in health wearables has continued apace, meaning everyone can take ownership of their physical and mental wellbeing better than ever before. [...]
It was way back in 2015 that AirPop co-founder Chris Hosmer first began to think about the air that he breathed. “My daughter was having breathing problems and I became very curious about the air quality in China. It’s obviously bad. You can see it and you can taste it,” Hosmer tells Health Tech World. [...]
Multiple measures of sleep patterns and sleep efficiency are associated with lifetime diagnoses of mental illness, according to a new study that used wrist accelerometer data to track sleep. Sleep problems are known to be both symptoms of and modifiable risk factors for many psychiatric disorders. In a new study, researchers collected data on 89,205 [...]
A new study of injectable implants for tracking body temperature concludes that digital implants in humans display similar performance as standard medical devices. Health Tech World spoke to the managing director of DSruptive Subdermals, the microelectronics company that commissioned the study, about the potential of the technology. Swedish startup DSruptive Subdermals, which specialises in implantable [...]
Digital care and health products firm Tunstall Healthcare has launched a new wearable which enables two-way speech, fall detection and locatability. Tunstall Go, developed in partnership with Chiptech, is designed to complement telecare packages by providing users with the means to access help when away from home. It is worn as a pendant or attached [...]
A new device developed by engineers at the University of California can recognise hand gestures based on electrical signals detected in the forearm, with the technology having the potential to be used in prosthetics. As well as being used to control prosthetics, the device, which couples wearable biosensors with artificial intelligence (AI), could interact with [...]
The CEO behind a wearable device designed to reduce the risk of blood clots has said that the technology could provide “huge” financial savings to healthcare institutions. Sky Medical Technology’s geko device, which is the size of a wristwatch and straps to a patient’s knee, uses electrical impulses to stimulate blood flow at 60% the rate [...]
Medical fabrics that deliver drugs, monitor the condition of a wound and perform other tasks, may one day be manufactured more efficiently thanks to a key advance by researchers. The breakthrough, made at US university Oregon State, involves inkjet printing and materials with a crystal structure discovered nearly two centuries ago. The upshot is the ability [...]
