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Wearables
This channel includes news and new technology innovations for wearable cardiac diagnostic systems. These include technologies related to smart phone apps, wearable monitors, consumer-grade wearables and medical grade FDA cleared wearables. A good overview on the future of these technologies can be found in this article.
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![Tufts Medical Center created a heart failure team approach to care for its patients. The program includes an interventional heart failure fellowship program, where interventional cardiologists learn more advanced care, as show here with an ECMO procedure being performed in a cath lab at Tufts. The interventional cardiologists learn how to better care for heart failure patients and interface with surgeons, intensivists and others on the HF care team. The operator is Nevin Kapur. Photo by Dave Fornell.](/sites/default/files/styles/content_feed_large/public/field/image/ECMO%20procedure%20Tufts%201.jpg?itok=ede4I-Sg)
There is no, single magic bullet in heart failure (HF) to easily reduce readmission rates or easily reverse this complex ...
![Several wearable, less-obtrusive ECG monitors fhave been cleared by the FDA for longer wear. This example is Cardiac Insight’s Cardea SOLO device.](/sites/default/files/styles/content_feed_large/public/field/image/Woman3_withpatch_website.jpg?itok=cJFfyRN9)
When the patients of Michael Boler, M.D. need cardiac monitoring, the Holter monitor is no longer his first choice. “The ...
Technology-enabled “Insourcing” approach to cardiac arrhythmia diagnosis provides patient and provider benefits The ...
![Here is an example of Fitbit data showing comparisons of data from Fitbit users by state. Residents in some states that take more steps in a day typically have lower incidences of diabetes, as showing in this population health big data heat map from consumer-grade wearable health tracking devices..](/sites/default/files/styles/content_feed_large/public/field/image/Fitbit%20Population%20health%20Data%20steps%20vs%20diabetes%20copy.jpg?itok=2OSgONVs)
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) highlights physical activity as one of four key behaviors people ...
The key question I am always asked at cardiology conferences is what are the trends and interesting new technologies I ...
January 22, 2020 — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) cleared VivaLNK's Continuous ECG Platform. It consisting ...
When the patients of Michael Boler, M.D. need cardiac monitoring, the Holter monitor is no longer his first choice. “The ...
January 22, 2020 – Bittium is exhibiting solutions for cardiology at Arab Health 2019, Jan. 27-30 in Dubai, United Arab ...
The Consumer Electronic Show (CES) is the world's gathering place for consumer technologies, with more than 175,000 ...
October 31, 2019 — AliveCor, a provider of smartphone based ECG technology and Huami Corp., a provider of biometric ...
COVID-19 has posed challenges for physicians whose cardiac patients are at-risk and reluctant to schedule an office ...
October 17, 2019 — The Bristol-Myers Squibb-Pfizer Alliance and Fitbit announced at the TIME 100 Health Summit in New ...
September 12, 2019 — Corvia Medical has sponsored and is actively enrolling patients in a heart failure (HF) device ...
![InfoBionic’s MoMe Kardia remote ECG monitor is an example of the newer generation devices that are replacing traditional Holter monitors. It has a single button for patients to create an alert when they are experiencing arrhythmia symptoms.](/sites/default/files/styles/content_feed_large/public/field/image/InfoBionic_MoMe_Kardia_Remote_ECG_monitor.jpg?itok=pjJc-mcy)
COVID-19 has posed challenges for physicians whose cardiac patients are at-risk and reluctant to schedule an office ...
Atrial fibrillation, or Afib, kills about 130,000 people worldwide every year. It also affects 3 to 6 million ...
August 15, 2019 — Bardy Diagnostics Inc. announced that HealthTech Arkansas, a healthcare accelerator and investment ...
July 5, 2019 — The rapid evolution of digital technology and its impact on the prevention and treatment of heart disease ...