In late 2018, Apple received FDA Clearance for their ECG app on the Apple Watch Series 4. Now Verily, part of Google's parent company, Alphabet, announced that the Verily Study Watch has received 510(k) clearance from the FDA as a Class II medical device for its on-demand ECG feature....
Atrial Fibrillation (AFib) is the most common sustained arrhythmia, which increases stroke risk five-fold, and accounts for almost one-third of all strokes. In the U.S. alone, AFib is responsible for approximately 130,000 deaths and 750,000 hospitalizations every year....
Medtronic just launched one of the cooler medical device applications in an effort to help patients' pacemakers and mobile devices communicate with one another....
Medtronic plc ($MDT) and its strategic technology partner, IBM ($IBM) Watson Health, announced a new feature for the Sugar.IQ personal diabetes assistant app called IQcast. Using artificial intelligence (AI) technology from IBM Watson Health, the feature aims to predict the likelihood of an individual experiencing a low glucose event within an upcoming 1-4 hour window....
The wearable market just got more interesting. Earlier in the year, Apple made headlines with an FDA cleared EKG monitor built-in to their Apple Watch Series 4. Now, blood pressure monitor brand, Omron Healthcare, announced they have started taking pre-orders for HeartGuide, an oscillometric blood pressure monitor in the design of a wrist watch...
A new report from CNBC’s Christina Farr further confirmed Apple’s commitment to healthcare as they now have dozens of doctors on staff. With the recent FDA de novo clearance of Apple’s Watch apps, physician hiring is the next step in showing how serious the company is about healthcare technology...
FDA Commissioner, Scott Gottlieb, M.D., announced Monday that the FDA is going to overhaul the 510(K) approval process for medical devices. The current process, approved in 1976, allowed medical device manufacturers ...
Verily's Chief Technology Officer, Brian Otis, shared on Verily's blog that the company and Alcon have decided to put the glucose-sensing contact lens project on hold....
Alivecor, maker of ECG software and hardware for the iPhone and other mobile devices, received another impressive victory this week as an international study found that their smartphone app was nearly as accurate as a 12-lead ECG in determining if a patient is having an ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI). ...
FundamentalVR, a Virtual Reality (VR) training and data analysis technology platform, recently announced a three year strategic collaboration and joint development agreement with Mayo Clinic...