Browsing: Health Tech & Wearables

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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For doctors, this raises a difficult question: how can they record something that is not happening during an examination? A standard electrocardiogram (ECG) shows the heart’s activity only at a specific moment, while even longer-term monitoring does not always coincide with less frequent episodes of heart rhythm disorders. As a result, some arrhythmias, particularly short…

Flexible organic eutectogel transistors arranged in a complete thread-based circuit. The free-form circuits can easily conform to body contours to monitor health and movement. Photo: Wenxin Zeng

What new methods can be used for plants to monitor their health? This is what a recent study published in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces hopes to address as a team of researchers investigated using “wearable” technology for plants to monitor their health. This study has the potential to develop new technologies to monitor plant…

We’re all wearing Apple Watches, Oura Rings, and FitBits now. Are they doing us any good?

Wearable healthcare devices have never been more popular, but integrating their data into clinical workflows remains a challenge worldwide

“The leaf sensor is more of an early warning system showing how the plant is responding in the moment, before visible signs appear,” said Nafize Hossain. Photo: Courtesy of Nafize Hossain

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A 2026 survey of more than 2,200 physicians in the U.S. and five other developed nations by the AMA and Medscape shows that doctors are generally interested in wearables and how the data they collect can be used to help manage patient care.