An FDA-cleared clinical grade activity tracking system has come to the US for use in workplace injury prevention. The ViSafe system, from Australian company dorsaVi, has previously been deployed in Australia and the UK in fields ranging from retail to mining.
"It’s our goal to reduce movement-related risk during the work task and we want to make workplace environments safer,"dorsaVi US president...
Great Lakes NeuroTechnologies, which makes mobile software and wearable devices for monitoring symptoms of Parkinson's disease, has released a new clinical version of its technology that supports continuous monitoring. Kinesia 360 is still a clinician-facing tool; it doesn't appear to be the direct-to-consumer offering the company promised last April when it received a $1.5 million NIH grant.
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Yet another clinically-focused, activity tracking wearable has now been cleared by the FDA, this one aimed specifically at the monitoring and treatment of Parkinson's disease. The Personal KinetiGraph, from Melbourne, Australia-based Global Kinetics Corporation, "offers comprehensive, automated reporting of a Parkinson’s disease patient’s movements so that neurologists and other physicians can...
