There are myriad exciting new wearable technology firms tackling health challenges to help people lead better and healthier lives. They are all facing significant challenges in all aspects of the business – technical development, clinical validation, regulatory affairs, productization and user adoption. Only a select few are getting enough of these right to have a […]
Developments in the digital health technology industry continued in Q1 of 2021 at the same torrid pace established in 2020 across all areas, including development and launch of new medical technologies, private investments and mergers and acquisitions activity. The persistent COVID-19 pandemic continues to be a catalyst for the rapid adoption of telemedicine initiatives and […]
Continuing with the strong growth and record pace we’ve observed in investments across all sectors of health care and digital health in particular, CB Insights has come out with their ‘State of Health Care Report’ for 2020, which states that this trend is global in nature and quite strong, with global healthcare funding hitting an […]
The year 2020 saw an explosion in all activities related to digital health. Presently we are in what can only be described as a boom period for the health technology industry in terms of the quantity and scale of research efforts. The same can be said of products, tools and digital health technologies launched into […]
CES is the premiere event where new consumer technology and innovation are revealed to the world. It is a proving ground for breakthrough technologies and global innovators and showcases companies in consumer technology hardware, content, technology delivery and more. One of the sectors demonstrating the greatest innovation and growth in tools and technologies empowering consumers […]
We’ve been talking a lot over the past few months about symptoms tracking as a way to reduce the lag that plagues contact tracing. If it works, it would be a critical tool in social distancing and social isolation strategies used by different levels of government. The important thing is to understand how it can […]
Certainly exciting news from the point of view of investment in wearables and health tracking, as now three of the four biggest tech companies in the world, the FAANG companies, are significantly vested in this crossover space. We expect to have a lot more to say about Halo once we understand it better, as the […]
Why the wearables movement desperately needs to take 10,000 steps. There are numbers that mean something to us viscerally. They elicit an image or a feeling without engaging our rational minds. 20 cms of snow. 714 home runs. 92 goals. 12 parsecs. And 10,000 steps. Mahatma Gandhi did a lot of walking in his lifetime. He […]