Empatica

The company made collaboration agreements with Empatica and etectRx, and a licensing deal with KeyWise. 

The new investigation also found substantial differences between the performance of specific devices, with consumer products generally outperforming research wearables.

The clearance is a first for the relatively underserved epilepsy wearable space.

With discussions on consumer data privacy again reaching a head amongst the lay press and lawmakers, it isn’t too far a stretch to wonder whether the data collected continuously through health and fitness wearables is receiving appropriate scrutiny.

Empatica's Embrace, the consumer-facing wearable for epileptic seizure detection, received 510(k) clearance from the FDA last month.

At Boston Children's Hospital's second annual Innovator's Showcase this week, researchers and clinicians presented a number of new technology-focused offerings that are currently in use or being tested at the hospital.

Cambridge, Massachusetts and Milan, Italy-based Empatica is crowdfunding a new wristworn tracker device, Embrace, which brings clinically validated tracking methods to the consumer market.