connected-medical-devices

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One Drop made diabetes care easier. Then it closed the app.
Health · Consumer · Ai

One Drop made diabetes care easier. Then it closed the app.

A chrome meter, a strip subscription and a coach in your pocket made One Drop a compelling experiment in everyday care. Its next chapter moved the ambition from the smartphone to the sensor.

diabetes-management · digital-healthRead →
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Neopenda Went to an Equipment Graveyard and Built the Baby Monitor Hospitals Would Actually Use
Health · Hardware · Enterprise

Neopenda Went to an Equipment Graveyard and Built the Baby Monitor Hospitals Would Actually Use

A student project became neoGuard only after Sona Shah and Teresa Cauvel saw why donated hospital equipment was collecting dust in Uganda. Their harder lesson was that a device clinicians want is not automatically a device health systems will buy.

medical-devices · patient-monitoringRead →
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The 116-Year-Old Appliance Company That Quietly Runs Your Kitchen Counter
Consumer · Hardware · Ecommerce

The 116-Year-Old Appliance Company That Quietly Runs Your Kitchen Counter

It designs the blender, licenses the Clorox name, lets a factory in China build it, and sells it to Walmart. A look at how a 116-year-old brand keeps winning the countertop.

hamilton-beach · small-appliancesRead →
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The Home Spirometer a Father Couldn't Buy Became RemetricHealth's Remote-Care Business
Health · Enterprise · Hardware

The Home Spirometer a Father Couldn't Buy Became RemetricHealth's Remote-Care Business

Wayne Meng went looking for a way to measure his daughter's lung function at home and found a blank shelf. The device he built became the wedge for a broader bet: remote care works better when someone handles the hardware, the data and the human follow-up.

remote-patient-monitoring · chronic-care-managementRead →