Browsing: Health Tech & Wearables

– Technology – The $50 Billion Health Tech Gold Rush: Pharma, AI and Wearables Are Turning Medicine Into a Data Economy By

For a growing number of people, the first decision of the day isn’t made over coffee. It’s made by a wearable device that has spent the night monitoring heart rate, sleep patterns and other health metrics

Wearable devices have transformed how people track exercise, sleep, heart rate and other vital signs. Researchers at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) are now exploring whether similar technologies could one day help monitor medicines inside the body. 

For years, smartwatch makers have promised to make our wrists the next frontier in health monitoring. Heart rate, ECGs, blood oxygen, sleep tracking, and body temperature have all found their way into modern wearables. Blood sugar is widely expected to be next

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The National University Hospital uses smartwatches for vital signs monitoring, with data fed into the hospital’s electronic medical records system

If you’ve ever been hooked up to a wearable machine at a doctor’s office, then you’re familiar with the electrodes that are attached to your body to monitor its electrical signals. The problem with these prefabricated metal-based or hydrogel electrodes is that they don’t always stay in place during movement, for long periods or on…

The use of sleep tracking devices is exploding, with nearly half of U.S. adults saying they’ve used a smartwatch, app or other device to monitor their sleep — up from 35% in 2023, according to the American Academy of Sleep Medicine. 

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