Digital Health
Also: Kaiser Permanente doubles down on the cloud with Accenture and Microsoft; Boehringer Ingelheim arms its reps with BreezoMeter's air quality data.
The startup formerly known as Heart Health Intelligence is undergoing the FDA clearance process for its Heart Seat device.
Alongside new support for hypertension and mental health, the company has also introduced Spanish language support to its app and live services.
The company hopes that its more descriptive reports will distinguish the personal ECG offering from others limited to atrial fibrillation detection alone.
Also: Fern Health gets a new CEO, SonderMind grows executive leadership team by two and Twentyeight Health names new hires.
Flare Capital's Alexandra Mullin and Ian Chiang outline COVID-19's impact on the worsening opioid crisis and how the digital opioid use disorder space is likely to develop over the coming years.
Also: Blood glucose monitoring could be coming to next-gen consumer smartwatches; new incubator looking for disruptive health tech startups.
Lily is Garmin’s smallest watch yet, with a 34mm watch fase and 14mm band meant to “enhance the overall feminine aesthetic.”
Telehealth visits will even out, IPOs will continue and venture eyes will remain on digital health in 2021, predicts athenahealth SVP and Chief Product Officer Paul Brient.
The Samsung Health Monitor app will be updated to enable these features on the Galaxy Watch3 and Galaxy Watch Active2 beginning on February 4 for certain markets.