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Wearable technology may reduce heart attack risk

11/18/201411/15/2014 L. Green

This technology is being examined in its potential for soldiers as well as the general public. Although wearable technology is becoming relatively well known in terms of its potential benefits in counting steps and in calculating the number of calories that are burned in a day, but now researchers are wondering whether or not there could be a potential to help soldiers who are on the field, or to assist in the prevention of greater health problems. These researchers are from Sentient Science as well as from the University of…

Apple Watch has yet to impress the health care industry

09/16/201409/13/2014 John Montgallo

Medical care providers had been hoping for more from the device maker’s first smartwatch. Although the Apple Watch has been making quite a stir in terms of the fact that it represents the company’s first step into wearable technology, when it comes to the first impressions that it has been making, many of them have not been quite as strong as it had likely hoped. For example, its health and fitness tracker features are not up to what the health care industry had expected. Before the majority of health care…

Wearable technology race is starting to define some clear leaders

05/26/201405/24/2014 Julie Campbell

Fitbit wearable technology fitness tracker

Pebble and Fitbit are beginning to show that they are at the top of the wearables market. According to the research firm, Canalys, and some of its most recently released data, among all of the consumers who own wearable technology bands around the world during the first quarter of this year, nearly half were owners of the Fitbit fitness band. That said, when it comes to smartwatches, Pebble has been ripping ahead of the competition. Despite that the comparatively small Pebble is up against some powerful tech giants such as…

Wearable technology shirt offers awesome fitness tracking

05/13/201405/10/2014 Julie Campbell

This special clothing is designed to make accurate and useful biofeedback more practical to wearers. A new form of wearable technology in the form of a t-shirt from OMsignal, which features knitted electrodes to work as sensors for respiration and heart rates has now been developed to help to overcome the limitations of today’s fitness trackers and to make this tech much more practical to those who want to wear it. The idea is that when the tech has been worked right into clothing, it becomes far more palatable. The…

mHealth adoption is expanding in an odd way

04/29/201404/26/2014 Julie Campbell

sparkpeople fitness tracker mhealth wearable technology

While mobile health is becoming popular among patients for tracking, they are not sharing their data. According to the results of a new mhealth survey that has been released by Mobiquity that has shown that while many patents are embracing mobile health technology as a way to be able to better track and monitor their diets, activity levels, vital signs, and other helpful data, at the same time they are not all that likely to actually volunteer to share that information with their doctors unless those physicians specifically ask for…