Digital Health
Alongside new support for hypertension and mental health, the company has also introduced Spanish language support to its app and live services.
The company hopes that its more descriptive reports will distinguish the personal ECG offering from others limited to atrial fibrillation detection alone.
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Flare Capital's Alexandra Mullin and Ian Chiang outline COVID-19's impact on the worsening opioid crisis and how the digital opioid use disorder space is likely to develop over the coming years.
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Lily is Garmin’s smallest watch yet, with a 34mm watch fase and 14mm band meant to “enhance the overall feminine aesthetic.”
Telehealth visits will even out, IPOs will continue and venture eyes will remain on digital health in 2021, predicts athenahealth SVP and Chief Product Officer Paul Brient.
The Samsung Health Monitor app will be updated to enable these features on the Galaxy Watch3 and Galaxy Watch Active2 beginning on February 4 for certain markets.
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The platform provides patients and their physicians insights into blood pressure patterns that better inform the diagnosis and management of hypertension.