Describing the rise of medical “wearables” in the U.S. and global marketplace as meteoric seems fitting given the rapid growth of the industry over the past decade. Wearable technology has been around for decades (check out an amusing history of some medical and...
Wearables, such as the Apple Watch, are becoming more commonly used in clinical research, as mentioned in a previous blog post. Most recently, as stated by Stacy Lawrence of Fierce Medical Devices, researchers at the MD Anderson Cancer Center at Cooper are using the...
Wearable technology has been taking over the consumer world for health and fitness, and speculation has grown around the topic of utilizing the devices in clinical trials. First Post Business addressed the idea, along with input from Michael Shanler, research director...
The use of wearable medical technology has become less of a hypothetical concept and more of a reality as industry representatives begin to experiment with the idea. Intel and the Michael J. Fox Foundation have joined forces to conduct a study using smartwatches to...
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