Washington: A new study claimed Wearable devices such as smartwatches could be used to detect a higher risk of developing heart failure and irregular heart rhythms in later life. The peer-reviewed study, published in The European Heart Journal — Digital Health, looked at data from 83,000 people who had undergone a 15-second electrocardiogram (ECG) comparable … Read more
Shahid Akhter, editor, ETHealthworld, spoke to Ramya Subramanian, COO, CEO, Co-Founder, Docty, to know more about the emerging trends in wearable devices and how emerging platforms promise to deliver healthcare so remotely. Healthcare and TechnologyThere are so many problems that you see in healthcare today. Fragmentation, I feel, is one of those core issues that … Read more
Jan. 27, 2022 — It’s no secret that a particular public health epidemic has only gotten worse during the COVID-19 pandemic: drug overdose deaths. From May 2020 to April 2021, more than 100,000 people in the U.S. died from a drug overdose, according to the CDC. About 64% of those deaths were from opioids, mostly … Read more
The Reserve Bank on Wednesday extended the scope of ‘tokenisation’ to several consumer devices, including laptops, desktops, wearables like wristwatches and bands, as well as Internet of Things (IoT) devices. Tokenisation, which aims at improving the safety and security of the payment system, refers to the replacement of actual card details with a unique alternate … Read more
The wearable medical device market is expected to reach more than $27 million by 2023, a spectacular jump from almost $8 million in 2017 expressed, Pradeep Multani, Sr. Vice President, PHDCCI, while speaking at the webinar on Digital Health: The Future, Series III on Mobile Digital Health Devices: The Covid-19 Pandemic Impact and Mobile Digital … Read more