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Garmin expands offline music service support with Spotify integration
Garmin launched offline music on some of its devices this year and today rolled out support for another subscription service. Spotify is one of the world's most popular services that can now be used on your GPS sports watch.
Can blockchain transform healthcare IT?
How the technology-enabled mechanism of trust might affect the way medical information is handled.
How technology can save the NHS
The NHS could massively benefit from new technologies - just not the new technologies you think.
Jaybird Tarah announced: $100 wireless waterproof earbuds for training and fitness
Today's smartwatches and GPS sports watches support offline music playback so a Bluetooth headset is required to workout without a phone. Most phones also no longer have a headset jack so wireless is the way to go.
Small, flexible plaster uses ultrasound waves to monitor blood pressure inside your body
The readings might be more accurate, too, considering how our blood pressure tends to rise in the doctor's office.
Fitbit launches Fitbit Care platform for health care plans, expands Humana partnership
The effort is a big move into recurring revenue and using Fitbit's data to become more of a software provider in the health care ecosystem.
Apple Watch 4 vs Samsung Galaxy Watch vs Polar Vantage: Comparing their heart monitoring capabilities
Today's newest watches employ advanced heart rate monitoring and analysis to help us better understand our hearts and obtain early warnings of possible serious health issues.
We compare Samsung Galaxy Watch vs Apple Watch Series 4: Best doesn't always win
Apple just announced its latest Apple Watch about a month after Samsung revealed the Galaxy Watch. Both are excellent smartwatches with a focus on health and fitness, and while one is a better value, the other is likely to sell millions more.
Apple Watch 4: Why digital health's future depends on Apple finding a cloud partner
The new capabilities of Apple's flagship wearable device will be further enhanced by allowing healthcare providers to directly interact with patients using telemedicine and to review and analyze their data in the cloud.
Polar announces Vantage V and Vantage M: Multisport watches with advanced heart rate monitors
It's been a couple of years since we have seen a high end GPS sports watch from Polar and the Vantage V looks exciting. Polar also revealed a new mid-level device for the casual athlete.
Apple Watch Series 4 doubles down on digital health: Features, specs, prices
Apple has upgraded the Apple Watch throughout and it's clear that the company has bet the farm on digital health and wellness. It's likely to have multiple enterprise use cases.
How Apple Watch saved my life
I have always been a tolerant and loyal opposition user of Cupertino's products. Now I am committed to using them, forever.
Garmin expands wearable onboard music support with Deezer app launch
Three recent Garmin wearable series launched with onboard music support, but only one subscription service supported offline syncing. Deezer is now available for these wearables.
Misfortune Cookie vulnerability returns to impact medical devices
The four-year-old security flaw has reared its head once again but this time medical equipment, and not routers, are at risk.
Health tech: AI, APIs, and data interoperability
A prominent leader in medical innovation discusses how technology can change the healthcare system. He offers a unique enterprise view of the complexity and challenges of fixing our health system.
Last-minute back-to-school tech supplies for under $200
Add these useful, cool tech items to your back-to-school list for 2018.
These wearable tech brands are a huge disappointment
Have ever quit using a fitness tracker, and if so, why? Here is what respondents to a survey hated about their trackers -- and which came out on top.
Turning digital disruption into a healthcare advantage
Is improving tech the key to to making healthcare more efficient?
Smart bandage promises cleaner wounds and better healthcare
Researchers are using flexible bioelectronics to help wounds heal better.
Smart contact lenses could provide a boost to healthcare monitoring
Health tech: Researchers are working on combining sensors with off-the-shelf contact lenses for a range of medical applications.
Healthcare innovation: MIT researchers develop swallowable pill to spot hidden illnesses
MIT researchers have created swallowable chips that can help identify blood in the gastrointestinal tract.
Ultra-low power chips provide a boost to nerve-conditions research
Researchers at Purdue University are developing chips that could help scientists understand nerve conditions, and potentially help lay the foundations for neuroprosthetics.
Why biomedical data sets are more secure on the cloud
Marc Fiume, CEO of DNAstack, explains why housing biomedical data on premise can be a burden for research institutions.
IBM Watson Health extends cancer treatment partnership with Department of Veteran Affairs
After providing precision oncology care fore more than 2,700 veterans, the Department of Veterans Affairs and IBM are extending their partnership through at least June 2019.
A cheap solution to a costly medical issue: Smart bandages to treat chronic wounds
The new, sensor-based bandages have been designed by engineers at Tufts University.
WHO says gaming addiction is a mental health condition
With gaming disorder making its way into the International Classification of Diseases it's just a matter of time before other digital issues--think smartphone and social--are flagged.
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