inHEART promises to change cardiac electrophysiology
inHEART, a spin-off company by French tech institutes Inria and LYRIC, received $4.2 million dollars by VC firm Elaia. What they intend to do with...
Category : Mobile Health
The EU isn’t happy about Google’s Fitbit takeover
Way back in November, we warned that Google algorithms being fed with Fitbit’s data could be a nightmare scenario. Someone high up in the EU...
Heartbeat Health teams up with the ACC
Good news for digital cardiology: Heartbeat Health teamed up with The American College of Cardiology (ACC). Their goal is to provide cardiologists with their top-of-the-line...
The patients that need mHealth the most won’t use it
People over 65 stand in front of screens for an average of 10 hours per day. Half of them own smartphones. One would think that...
Heartbeat Health wants to revolutionize cardiology
Heartbeat Health made the news lately for securing 8.2$M from investors. Its aim – provide high-quality cardiology care via telehealth. With a team mainly consisting...
AI algorithm examines 2.3 million ECGs – it’s now better than doctors at it
It’s no secret that it takes big data to properly train an AI. Researchers in Brazil just fed an AI 2.3 million ECGs and the...
Apple Watch helps doctors diagnose myocardial ischemia
A 80-year old woman in Germany may be the first case of smartwatch-diagnosed myocardial ischemia. But how exactly did this come to be? Is it...
COVID-19 versus privacy – let’s make it a fair fight.
Emergency measures tend to persist long after the emergency itself. This is the reason why Yuval Noah Harari believes we should be very skeptical of...
Preventicus Heartbeats detects atrial fibrillation with your smartphone
The COVID-19 pandemic may have ground life to a halt, but management of chronic diseases must somehow go on. The app Heartbeats by German-based firm...
SEMMELWEIS-CRT: Machine learning predicts death in heart failure
Heart failure is a devastating disease. Because of it, patients are too tired to do things they used to enjoy. Their health is always getting...