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By Jonah Comstock | 05:27 pm | October 10, 2018
Recently granted patents show a shopping cart that monitors your heart rate, Alexa listening for coughs.
By Laura Lovett | 04:58 pm | October 10, 2018
The ingesitble sensors will let providers look at adherence habits, activity levels and resting heart rate within a younger patient population. 
By Jonah Comstock | 04:37 pm | October 10, 2018
The Barcelona-based company recently posted 91.3 percent accuracy in a 1,000-patient study.
By Jonah Comstock | 04:02 pm | October 10, 2018
The FDA’s Pre-Cert program has fallen under new scrutiny as the agency received an open letter today from three senators: Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.
By HIMSS TV | 03:52 pm | October 10, 2018
Bettina Experton, MD, and CEO of Humetrix, talks about the history of CMS’s Blue Button project and how 53 million Americans covered by Medicare will now have access to their data through an API to ensure patient safety and interoperability.
By Leontina Postelnicu | 02:45 pm | October 10, 2018
Fondation Botnar and the Gates Foundation are backing Berlin-headquartered Ada's expansion after launching a new Global Health Initiative to improve access to healthcare.
By Laura Lovett | 02:27 pm | October 10, 2018
NASA will now be piloting the clinical decision support tool UpToDate, which gives users access to thousands of clinical resourcers, on the International Space Station. 
By Dave Muoio | 12:42 pm | October 10, 2018
The app monitors heart rhythms via the smartphone's camera and uses AI to identify irregularities. 
By Leontina Postelnicu | 09:19 am | October 10, 2018
NHS Digital introduces new mental health data hub, Babylon creates new Healthcheck feature, institute launches £3m competition paving the way for a UK-wide infrastructure for health data research and EY releases preliminary findings from survey on digital health attitudes.
By Dave Muoio and Laura Lovett | 05:11 pm | October 09, 2018
Also: Biodegradable implant accelerates nerve damage repair; algorithm uses wearables to predict behavior, blood pressure changes.