infant health

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By  Jessica Hagen 05:53 pm April 25, 2024
Baby tech company Owlet and telehealth staffing and services company Wheel announced they are partnering to allow Wheel's clinicians to prescribe caregivers Owlet's medical pulse oximetry wire-free sock for infants. Owlet's BabySat, which received FDA clearance last year, uses pulse oximetry technology to monitor a baby's heart rate and oxygen saturation level, and alerts caregivers when a...
By  MobiHealthNews 03:58 pm January 6, 2020
CES is back again with scores of new consumer tech products in tow, and digital health is no exception. Players big and small to Las Vegas each year to unveil and promote devices, whether they be focused on health monitoring, restful sleeping, fitness, infant care, hygiene or otherwise. Read on below for a roundup of digital health product announcements from this year's trade show. Medirom, a...
By  Jonah Comstock 01:35 pm May 1, 2017
Boston Children's Hospital is the latest to tackle the problem of continuity of care between a patient's doctor and any emergency room or urgent care center they might find themselves in. And they're testing the technology, from startup Position Health, in some of their smallest and most high risk patients. "At Boston Children’s we have a population of very high risk infants with severe...
By  Jonah Comstock 07:57 am November 6, 2014
A new app from Baylor University takes advantage of a smartphone's camera -- and of the smartphone owner's tendency to take a lot of pictures -- to potentially detect rare eye cancers in babies. Baylor chemist Bryan Shaw and Baylor computer scientist Greg Hamerly have launched the White Eye Detection app, in which parents can upload pictures of their babies and digitally scan them for signs of...