Contact tracing tech sparks privacy concerns, but most consumers and IT...
A new survey conducted among consumers and IT professionals by data security company SecureAge Technology suggests that the clear majority of these groups believe COVID-19 contact-tracing technologies...
View ArticleApple plants a flag in the home fitness market with Fitness+ for Apple Watch
While Apple’s big announcement yesterday was around a new blood oxygenation sensor, the company also rolled out a new video fitness class offering which could turn out to be even more impactful for the...
View ArticleApp-based physical activity interventions fuel nonsignificant daily step...
Recent investigations of smartphone app-based activity interventions suggested that these approaches have a positive, but not significant, impact on individuals' daily physical activity, according to a...
View ArticleWhy digital therapeutics are flourishing under COVID-19
The increased adoption of virtual care technologies during the COVID-19 public health emergency is fairly well documented by this point, but a widespread embrace of health technologies is providing a...
View ArticleSwedish digital health firm Joint Academy raises $23M in Series B round
Swedish firm Joint Academy has raised $23 million in Series B funding for its clinical evidence-based digital treatment for chronic joint pain, which connects patients with licensed physical...
View ArticleCOVID-19 tracking tech – weighing personal and public health benefits against...
COVID-19 may not be the first pandemic the world has faced, but the virus' challenge comes amidst widespread skepticism of longstanding public health institutions. Government-led responses to outbreaks...
View ArticleAbbott scores CE Mark for its first glucose sport biosensor
Abbott announced that its Libre Sense Glucose Sport Biosensor has achieved a CE Mark, paving the way for a European roll-out. The Libre Sense biosensor provides continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) to...
View ArticleHealth & Her launch fully integrated menopause supplement range and app
Cardiff-based female health pioneers have announced the launch of the UK’s first fully-integrated supplement range and a digital training programme to help manage the symptoms of menopause. The 'Health...
View ArticleAmazon cuts off Echelon's 'Prime Bike,' Samsung activates smartwatch ECG in...
A one-sided arrangement. Earlier this week, budget-minded connected-exercise-maker Echelon Fitness announced the launch of is "Prime Bike," a $499 device that it described in its reveal as "Amazon's...
View ArticleGoogle Maps will soon display local COVID-19 case rates and trends
Google Maps will be receiving an update this week that shows users the prevalence of COVID-19 cases in an area, the tech company announced yesterday in a blog post.Through an option selected within the...
View ArticleHIMSSCast: Apple's new sensor, digital therapeutics, and digital health...
It's a bit of a pot pourri this week as the MobiHealthNews team shares some of what it's heard at a variety of (virtual, of course) industry events. First, host Jonah Comstock recaps what Apple...
View Article'Smart cities' can improve individual and community-wide health, but pulling...
The smart home of the future is one dominated by sensors, transmitters and intelligent data analyses that work to improve the lives of those dwelling within. Increase the scale by a degree of magnitude...
View ArticleApple Watch's abnormal pulse feature driving many unnecessary healthcare...
A new review of Apple Watch-related presentations suggests that the device's abnormal pulse detection feature may be fueling unnecessary healthcare utilization."The observation that new clinically...
View ArticleRaccoon.World closes €900k seed funding for digital physiotherapy platform
EU-based startup, Raccoon.World, has recently raised an additional €625k from private investment fund Quarter Partners in the second phase of its seed funding round, bringing the round’s total to...
View ArticleMobiHealthNews and Healthcare IT News expand into Europe, Middle East &...
The year 2020 will go down in history as one of the most challenging of our lifetime. Thinking back to January, none of us would have predicted the emergence of a pandemic-causing virus, let alone its...
View ArticleAbu Dhabi’s Rizek is first non-healthcare app to introduce COVID-19 testing
A non-healthtech startup has become the first of its kind to offer on-demand polymerase chain reaction (PCR) testing for COVID-19 in the United Arab Emirates (UAE).Abu Dhabi-based, Rizek, which...
View ArticleApple Health Records goes international with rollouts at five UK, Canadian...
U.S. iPhone owners are no longer the only ones with access to Apple's Health Records. This morning the tech giant announced its personal health record (PHR) feature is now available in the U.K. and...
View ArticleDigital Health Formulary adds new programs to its lineup, Butterfly announces...
More digital health tools join the PBM party. Evernorth, a newly-established Cigna subsidiary that now acts as the parent of Express Scripts, announced today several new additions to the pharmacy...
View ArticleRoundup: New app partnership gives NHS workers flexible access to pay,...
NHSX DRIVES FORWARD DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION OF HEALTH CARE With the aim of creating an environment for innovation to flourish, NHSX has created the Digital Technology Assessment Criteria for health and...
View ArticleWorld Mental Health Day: ‘The illusion that all therapy must be delivered in...
Most of us have grappled with some form of mental health issue during this unprecedented global pandemic. Snapshot studies released in September, which was Suicide Prevention Awareness month,...
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