Digital Health

With these devices playing a larger role in critical SGT sessions, health club owners are voicing concerns about data reliability. Here’s what you need to know.

Members of Forbes Technology Council reveal their favorite new products and developments unveiled at CES 2019.

Club Industry has released its report on the trends that are affecting the health club industry in 2019, focusing on business, technology, wellness, studios, marketing, nutrition and more.

The problem, according to researchers, is not fitness trackers themselves, but privacy regulations woefully unprepared to deal with the new types of data being produced, collected and analyzed.

In the first half of this year, startups working on behavioral health collectively raised $273 million — more than in any prior six-month period on record.

Wearable devices like Fitbit and Apple Watch have become almost ubiquitous in recent years as users look for easier and better ways to monitor their health — now life insurance companies want that data too.

Digital wellness company Provata Health voluntarily recalled approximately 30,000 fitness trackers following 13 reports that the device was overheating while charging or in use. Users suffered burns to their wrists in three instances, according to the CPSC.

Whether it’s the invention of the treadmill or the arrival of wearables, fitness has never stood still. To see what the future holds, we studied the most unusual patents filed for new fitness-related products by some of our favorite brands. From data-tracking shoes that use your steps to charge themselves, to gym gear that releases therapeutic chemicals into your skin and even an underwater punchbag – this is the future of fitness.

The connection between heart rate and diabetes is poorly understood. But that’s not stopping a deep learning tool from finding one in your wearables data.

HR and benefits executives, in making the right platform choices, can play a profound role in creating healthier people, cultures and organizations. Eric Zimmerman, CMO at RedBrick health discusses why understanding your employee base, and offering high-tech and high-touch options in your company’s well-being initiatives is key to making the right benefits platform choice.

The United States is in the midst of the worst drug crisis in the nation’s history, a toll measured in fatalities on a scale never seen before. With a record-setting 42,000+ drug overdose deaths involving an opioid in 2016.

At the Fast Company Grill in Austin, Merck and other industry leaders offered a glimpse of what’s to come—tech that could “change almost everything.”

Fitness trackers don't reduce blood pressure, cholesterol or weight, study finds. They're more effective when combined with feedback from a doctor or trainer.

Members of Forbes Technology Council share their predictions about augmented reality’s future impact on business and society.

To truly tackle the mental well-being of your people start by acknowledging that this is predominantly a culture issue.

Patrick Kramer sticks a needle into a customer’s hand and injects a microchip the size of a grain of rice under the skin. “You’re now a cyborg,” he says after plastering a Band-Aid on the small wound between Guilherme Geronimo’s thumb and index finger.

Poke fun at goat yoga all you want, but don’t underestimate the booming wellness industry.

The health care industry is often seen as a safe harbor during economic downturns. Las Vegas recalibrated its economy toward health care after being particularly hard hit during the Great Recession, for example. But what about the burgeoning world of digital health that was in its infancy in 2008? Is it capable of weathering the next economic storm like more traditional parts of its industry?

Osman Akhtar, former COO of Fairview Health Services in Minnesota, will take a top job related to AC Wellness, healthcare clinics for Apple's employees.

Lauren Mechling on Shock Therapy, a boutique-fitness studio on the Upper East Side that offers group classes with electronic muscle-stimulation technology, or EMS.

The Versa smartwatch has elevated the fitness device maker into a contender.

Your physical and even mental health is a growing focus for Fitbit as it tries to fill the revenue gap left by a stalled business in fitness trackers.

Obsessions with fitness, combined with a need for immediacy, convenience, and flexibility, has given rise to a generation of fitness-obsessed millennials. Yes, we’ve moved on from at-home jazzercise VCRs and into a world where every third person teaches a yoga class.

Juniper Research sees strong growth ahead for specialized fitness wearables.