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Five tech and aging blog posts from October 2019

Aging in Place Technology Watch

The iPhone had just been released in June of 2007, so this survey did not ask about smartphone use – there was no Digital Health (a " check engine light for your body! "); the Longevity Economy hadn’t been invented; Fitbit was a 2007 new clip-on tracker , and Facebook was still a campus toy. Read more. . .

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With Wristband, Google Entering Consumer Health on Its Own Terms

Chilmark Research

Google’s device, which it hopes to test later this summer, will track pulse, heart rate, skin temperature, and even environmental factors such as exterior noise levels. There’s also Calico Labs and its mission to study age-related diseases. It will be very interesting to see what happens with Google’s wristband.

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A guide to connected health device and remote patient monitoring vendors

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Connected health devices run the gamut from wearable heart monitors, to Bluetooth-enabled scales, to Fitbits. Biofourmis’ primary therapeutic focus areas include heart failure and other cardiometabolic disorders, pain, and oncology. The system can be used to conduct telehealth visits between two or more clinics.