Amazon ditches Halo and lays off workers
Amazon has decided to stop making and supporting its Halo fitness wearable products by the end of July, and will be trimming its workforce as a result. The company [...]
Samsung open-source project aids wearables research
Samsung has unveiled Health Stack 1.0, an open-source project to help researchers build apps, backend servers and analysis tools for wearable devices based on the Android and Wear OS [...]
How Apple Watch can check mental health
Devices such as the Apple Watch can provide indicators to the wearers’ mental health, according to researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York. [...]
Withings smart scale assesses health
French consumer electronics company Withings has introduced a smart body scale offering health assessments and an eyes-closed mode for those that dare not look. The Body Smart scale provides [...]
Patient monitoring start-up closes $13m funding round
Neteera Technologies, an Israeli patient-monitoring start-up, has closed a $13m series B funding round. Neteera will use the money to accelerate sales, production and deployment of its contactless patient [...]
Ambiq AI model enables real-time heart monitoring
Texas semiconductor company Ambiq has introduced HeartKit, an open-source AI model using multi-head neural networks purpose-built to enable real-time heart-monitoring applications. Part of its NeuralSpot Model Zoo, this optimised [...]
Mobile app uses AI to help people quit smoking
Researchers at the UK’s University of East Anglia have developed a mobile app that uses artificial intelligence (AI) to help people give up smoking. The Quit Sense app senses [...]
Baicells and Jacs provide private 5G for healthcare
Baicells Technologies and Maryland-based IoT firm Jacs have unveiled end-to-end private 5G options for the healthcare industry. The two companies are offering a turnkey platform to enable connected healthcare [...]
Armis identifies riskiest medical IoT devices
Asset visibility and security company Armis has identified the top connected medical and IoT devices that are exposed to malicious activity in clinical environments. Data analysed from the Armis [...]
Vodafone wearables track rugby players’ health
Vodafone is tracking rugby players’ and performance in real time with wearables. The fitness and performance programme is part of Vodafone’s PLAYER.CONNECT platform, which aggregates data from athletes’ wearable [...]
Honeywell real-time remote health monitoring
Honeywell has developed a real-time health monitoring system, which captures and records patients’ vital signs both within the hospital setting and remotely. Honeywell’s solution monitors vital signs via a [...]
FDA clears first non-invasive potassium monitor
Medtech company Alio has achieved FDA clearance for its remote patient monitoring platform, including for remote monitoring of haematocrit, haemoglobin and potassium. The FDA clearance positions Alio as the [...]