Wearables

Archive
5 December 2016

Discount Apple Watch offered for health data

A private insurer is offering UK customers super cheap Apple Watches with its policies but there's a catch (or two).
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16 November 2016

Gareth Baxendale: can wearables count for medicine?

The head of technology for the NIHR Clinical Research Network says fitness apps are already being used to recruit people
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22 September 2016

Standard weight loss methods better than wearables – study

Fitness devices may not offer an advantage over traditional diet and exercise plans for losing weight, according to a long
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Fitbit in discussions with NHS
11 August 2016

Wearable and app in trial to prevent diabetes

Wearables and “motivational” mobile app will be piloted in London as a fix for the swelling health burden of Type
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26 July 2016

Sheffield test bed aims to create perfect patient pathway

A project is underway in Sheffield to use technologies to support patients with multiple long-term health conditions to care for
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17 June 2016

Healthcare IT industry news in brief

This week’s industry round up covers a new acquisition and some software changes that leverage wearable health data. It includes
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19 October 2015

Joe’s view: of wearables

Thanks to his Apple Watch, Joe McDonald can sit on a yacht in Turkey and receive text messages from his
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app round up
18 September 2015

App Round-up

Digital Health reporter Thomas Meek rounds-up what's been happening in the world of apps, wearables and other mobile health technology.
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24 June 2015

Wearables info to feed records – Kelsey

Members of the public will be able to add data from wearable devices to their electronic patient record by 2018,
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12 March 2015

A sector to Watch

As Apple launched its Watch this week, Thomas Meek attended the Wearable Technology conference in London, where many other developers
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