Bio Farma, Indonesia's pharmaceutical state-owned enterprise holding, has partnered with Google Cloud, ConnectedLife and Fitbit through a new digital health initiative to support the Indonesian government's Healthy Indonesia blueprint and vision.
Under the Preventive Care Medwell initiative, the parties have developed a personalised virtual platform called ConnectedLife with Fitbit, touted to be...
This morning Fitbit landed FDA clearance for its long-awaited photoplethysmography atrial fibrillation (AFib) detection algorithm. The algorithm will be part of Fitbit's new Irregular Heart Rhythm Notification feature, which was designed to alert users of potential AFib.
The technology is able to run passively on Fitbit wearables and assess heart rhythm when a person is sleeping or not moving....
A digital health program using a Fitbit wearable and text-based health coaching improved physical activity in teens, according to a study published in JMIR.
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Researchers found that adolescents enrolled in the program met their activity goals for an average of 7 out of eleven possible weeks. The teens also wore their Fitbits for about 91% of days on average, and the study found there...
Google announced a number of health product updates Thursday, including new search functionality for finding provider appointments, ongoing work on using Fitbit to detect atrial fibrillation, and research using smartphones and artificial intelligence to conduct obstetric ultrasounds.
"The pandemic has really strengthened our resolve as a company that we could and should apply our technologies to...
Fitbit is voluntarily recalling its Ionic smartwatches due to a burn hazard in the device's lithium-ion battery. This comes after at least 115 reports of the watches overheating and 78 reports of burn injuries in the U.S., according to the Consumer Product Safety Commission.
Additionally, the agency reports two incidents of third-degree burns and four incidents of second-degree burns in the U.S...
Google’s healthcare business looks a lot different at the end of 2021 compared with the beginning of the year.
The tech giant overhauled its strategy this year, eventually dismantling its health division. However, it still released a variety of tools for both consumers and clinicians, with a particular focus on healthcare accessibility and managing COVID-19 as the pandemic moved into its second...
Onduo, a digital health tool from Alphabet’s life science subsidiary Verily, announced it will be offering Fitbit devices and Fitbit Premium with its chronic disease management platform.
Employees who use the Onduo program through their employer will be able to receive a Fitbit Inspire 2 as well as access to Fitbit Premium, which offers more health insight data, guided workouts and health and...
Last week, a database that was not password protected exposed more than 61 million records containing data from fitness trackers and wearables, including Apple HealthKit and Fitbit. On today's HIMSSCast a team of HIMSS Media editors – host Jonah Comstock, MobiHealthNews Managing Editor Laura Lovett, MobiHealthNews Senior Editor Emily Olsen, and Healthcare IT News Executive Editor Mike Miliard –...
Video-game therapy. Digital therapeutic maker Akili announced that its video-game-like therapy for children with ADHD, dubbed EndeavorRx, will now be available on Android devices. The prescription digital therapeutic is geared towards kids 8 to 12 who are diagnosed with ADHD.
The company scored an FDA De Novo for the product in 2020, making it the first game-based therapeutic with clearance. In...
A database that was not password protected exposed more than 61 million records containing data from fitness trackers and wearables, according to a breach report by WebsitePlanet and security researcher Jeremiah Fowler.
Fowler and WebsitePlanet’s research team found many of the exposed records contained information like first and last name, display name, birthdate, weight, height, gender and...
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