Digital health technology company NeuroRPM has received FDA 510(k) clearance for its AI-enabled remote monitoring app that utilizes an Apple Watch to track common Parkinson’s symptoms such as bradykinesia, tremor and dyskinesia. Bradykinesia is slowness of movement, and dyskinesia is involuntary or erratic movements. The Washington D.C.-based company’s algorithms are embedded in the Apple Watch […]
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) is urging the Federal Trade Commission to scrutinize CVS Health’s planned acquisition of Medicare-focused primary care provider Oak Street Health. In a letter to FTC Chair Lina Khan and Commissioners Alvaro Bedoya and Rebecca Slaughter, the progressive senator wrote the deal could lower quality of care and hike costs. She also […]
Tesla is launching today its Safety Score 2.0, a new version of its driver scoring system to attempt to make it fairer as it influences insurance costs. When launching its own car insurance product, Tesla utilized its capacity to collect real-time driving data from its vehicles to create what it calls a “Safety Score,” which […]
Last month, two large retail and pharmacy companies made big moves in healthcare delivery: Amazon completed its purchase of One Medical, and CVS Health announced plans to buy Oak Street Health. The deals aren’t unexpected, said Christopher Lis, managing director of global healthcare intelligence at J.D. Power. More than 31 million people are now enrolled […]
Sustainable Whoppers? Burger King is going electric after revealing plans to transition its North American field team fleet to 100% EVs by 2030. Founded in 1954, Burger King has grown to become the second-largest fast-food hamburger chain globally, behind only McDonald’s. As one of the largest quick-serve restaurant companies worldwide, with nearly 19,000 locations across […]
A new cybersecurity strategy for England has been published by the Government. The cyber security strategy for health and adult social care lays out a plan to promote cyber resilience across the sector by 2030, protecting services and the patients they support. The plan aims to ensure that services are better protected from cyber threats, further […]
This week on Electrek’s Wheel-E podcast, we discuss the most popular news stories from the world of electric bikes and other nontraditional electric vehicles. This time that includes an ultra-high speed electric kick scooter, the federal e-bike tax credit has been resuscitated, Acer has a new e-bike, Amish folks are going head over leather heels for e-bikes, […]
If you thought most Europeans had it bad with lower e-bike speed limits of just 25 km/h (15 mph), then prepare yourself for even tighter restrictions in one European capital. That’s because Amsterdam’s city officials are proposing to reduce the electric bike speed limit on cycle paths to just 20 km/h (12 mph). According to […]
Tesla has released a new software update activating its vision-based park assist feature, and videos are starting to roll in showing it in action. In October of last year, Tesla abruptly decided to stop including ultrasonic sensors on Model 3 and Model Y vehicles. These ultrasonic sensors were used for short-range objects detection, particularly during […]
Scientists from Swansea University and Japan have been awarded £1.3 million to develop a new point of care testing kit that can detect biomarkers for Alzheimer’s Disease. The project follows Dr Sanjiv Sharma’s ground-breaking work in this area and in the development of the world’s first COVID-19 ‘smart patch’. The smart patch consists of a […]
