Wearable Devices

New Project Eyes an Open Platform for Data From mHealth Wearables

by Eric Wicklund

A Massachusetts-based partnership aims to create a common workplace for healthcare providers and researchers using mHealth sensors in wearables and other devices. The Open Wearables Initiative...

Under Armour Quietly Shelves its Consumer mHealth Wearables Platform

by Eric Wicklund

One of the early participants in the mHealth wearables movement is quietly pulling out. Under Armour, which had competed alongside the likes of Apple, Fitbit, Garmin and Withings with a connected...

Scripps Researchers Use mHealth Wearables to Track Flu Outbreaks

by Eric Wicklund

Researchers have found a way to use mHealth wearables to tackle population health concerns. Led by digital health expert Eric Topol, MD, researchers at the Scripps Research Translational Institute...

Current And Future Doctors Are More Than Ready to Use mHealth Wearables

by Eric Wicklund

Current and future physicians are eager to use self-reported data from patients with mHealth wearables – in fact, they’re using wearables themselves to track health concerns. That’s...

Consumer Tech Association Unveils A Consumer’s Guide to mHealth Wearables

by Eric Wicklund

Consumer-facing mHealth is a thing now, and the organization overseeing the vast consumer technology landscape wants to make sure people know how to use their wearables. The Consumer Technology...

Rhode Island Hospital Tests mHealth Wearable to Track Eating Habits

by Eric Wicklund

A Rhode Island hospital is launching a pilot program to determine whether an mHealth wearable can help users lose weight. Researchers the The Miriam Hospital, part of the Lifespan Health System, will...

Fitbit Deal Gives Georgia’s Medicaid Population Access to mHealth

by Eric Wicklund

Fitbit is partnering with its first Medicaid provider in an effort to improve mHealth adoption in a population sorely in need of connected health resources. Beginning with the new year, some 4,000...

Apple Heart Study Finds Value in Using mHealth Wearables to Detect AFib

by Eric Wicklund

The largest-ever study of a consumer-facing mHealth wearable finds that the Apple Watch can be used by clinicians to detect atrial fibrillation. But the question remains: Will care providers trust...

FDA Approves mHealth Wearable for Tracking Epileptic Seizures

by Eric Wicklund

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved an mHealth wearable that can detect epileptic seizures and immediately alert care team members. The Embrace smart device, developed by Cambridge,...

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