Samsung expands health program to enable more preventative care

Samsung has expanded its Privileged Health Software Development Kit (SDK) program to give users more preventative health tools through partnerships with various healthcare platforms.

By combining sensor data from the Galaxy Watch with specialised platforms, Samsung believes users can better understand and manage their health.

"Under our openness philosophy, Samsung aims to build an integrated digital healthcare ecosystem with industry partners," said Hon Pak, VP of...

Berg Insight: The number of remotely-monitored patients hit 45.6M in 2020

Research from Berg Insight suggests the number of remotely-monitored patients hit 45.6 million in 2020.

The IoT market research giant analysed the growing number of patients enrolled in mHealth care programs where connected devices were used as part of the regimen.

Adoption is currently being driven by sleep therapy, diabetes monitoring, and implantable cardiac rhythm management (CRM) devices.

ResMed and Philips are the two brands dominating the sleep therapy...