Tag: Apple Watch
John Hancock pushes fitness tracking for life insurance policies
North American life insurance provider John Hancock is to link life insurance policies to holders’ fitness trackers, in what it claims is a drive...
Apple’s record results see it booming in wearables, mobile payments
Despite the widely held belief that Apple is losing ground to Google and has been short of big ideas since the passing of Steve...
Amazon building healthcare team in Alexa division
Amazon is reported to be building a health and wellness team inside its Alexa smart assistant division, as part of its ongoing strategy to disrupt the...
Health tech: Does Nokia’s exit mean wearables market is ill?
ANALYSIS Nokia announced this week that it is closing its Digital Health division, in the wake of a February 2018 memo, published by the...
Health IoT: KardiaBand sensor could replace invasive blood tests
Research appears to show that AliveCor's KardiaBand technology is capable of detecting hyperkalemia – excess potassium in the blood – through a simple ECG, a feat...
Fitbit and Apple Watch can help predict diabetes, says report
Smart watches just got smarter, according to a new study of the use of wearables to predict the risk of medical conditions, including diabetes,...
Apple Watch KardiaBand accessory shows it’s time for IoT in healthcare
A new watch band from KardiaBand by AliveCor has received approval from the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to carry out electrocardiography...