The Healthtech Intelligence Report: HealthcareDiscovery.ai’s comprehensive device review series covering 250+ healthtech wearables, biomarker devices, and health monitoring tools across 17 categories.
The connection between blood sugar and body weight has been studied for decades. Now AI is using real-time glucose data to guide when, what, and how much you eat. Weight management has historically operated on a simple input-output model: calories in versus calories out. But a growing body of metabolic research has revealed that the…
Data without interpretation is noise. Nutrisense bridges the gap between continuous glucose monitoring and meaningful health change by pairing sensors with registered dietitians. The wearable health technology industry has a coaching problem. Devices have become remarkably good at collecting data: heart rate every second, glucose every minute, sleep stages every night. But the gap between…
Glucose is the universal metabolic currency. Every cell in your body runs on it. Until recently, tracking it continuously was a privilege reserved for diabetics. That is changing. There is a peculiar asymmetry in modern health monitoring. We track steps, heart rate, sleep stages, and calories burned with consumer devices that cost a few hundred…
When a glucose sensor becomes the eyes of an artificial pancreas, continuous monitoring evolves from passive data collection into active, life-sustaining automation. The concept of an artificial pancreas has driven diabetes research for more than five decades. The idea is elegant in principle: a glucose sensor detects blood sugar levels in real time, an algorithm…
One extra day of sensor wear may not sound transformative. Across millions of users, it changes the economics and convenience of continuous glucose monitoring. In the world of continuous glucose monitoring, sensor longevity is one of the most consequential design variables. Every sensor change introduces a gap in data, a moment of discomfort, a fresh…
The sensor is the size of two stacked pennies. The data it produces could reshape how 88 million Americans with prediabetes understand their metabolic health. In 2014, Abbott introduced the original FreeStyle Libre and created a new category of glucose monitoring. The concept was simple but transformative: a small adhesive patch worn on the upper…
For the first time in history, anyone can buy a continuous glucose monitor without a prescription. What this means for the future of preventive metabolic health. Until 2024, continuous glucose monitors existed behind a gatekeeping wall. You needed a diabetes diagnosis. You needed a prescription. You needed insurance to justify the cost. The technology that…
A landmark study reveals that 40% of people with “normal” fasting glucose would be reclassified as prediabetic under continuous monitoring. The implications for how we measure metabolic health are profound. A single fasting glucose reading has been the cornerstone of diabetes screening for decades. You fast overnight, get your blood drawn, and if the number…
The laboratory that processes tests for half of America’s hospitals now lets anyone order blood work directly, no prescription required. Somewhere in the United States right now, a Labcorp technician is processing a blood sample. In fact, thousands of them are. Labcorp handles approximately 600,000 specimens per day across its network of laboratories, serving more…
How the nation’s largest clinical laboratory network is putting preventive blood testing directly in consumers’ hands, no doctor’s visit required. Every year, millions of Americans skip blood work they know they need. The barrier is rarely the cost of the test itself. It is the appointment, the referral, the co-pay for a visit just to…
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