GE HealthCare is warning healthcare providers that tens of thousands of its TruSignal pulse oximeters sold in the last few years could potentially put hospitalized patients at risk of a worsened ...

Studies found that pulse oximeter devices are less accurate for dark skin tones. Apple is facing a proposed class action lawsuit alleging the Apple Watch's blood oxygen sensor is racially biased ...

Digital health and fitness company WHOOP has released the latest version of its wearable, the WHOOP 4.0. The new wearable includes haptic alerts that use gentle vibrations to awaken the wearer based ...

In this project, I built a wearable health monitoring tag that you can actually chat with on Telegram. Using a pulse oximeter ...

DUBLIN, July 20, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- The "Global Pulse Oximeter Market, By Product Type (Fingertip, Handheld and Others), By Sensor Type (Reusable v/s Disposable), By Patient Type (Adult, Pediatric, ...

Oxygen is absorbed by a protein in your blood called hemoglobin. When you breathe, your lungs load up blood cells with oxygen, then the pumping of your heart circulates the oxygen-rich blood through ...

The MAXREFDES220# reference design provides everything you need to quickly prototype your product to measure finger-based heart rate and blood oxygen saturation level (SpO2). The MAXREFDES220# ...

The global pulse oximeter market size was valued at USD 3.56 billion in 2024 and is predicted to hit around USD 6.76 billion by 2034, rising at a 6.64% CAGR, a study published by Towards Healthcare a ...

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(CNN) — Years of research have showed that pulse oximeters yield less accurate readings for people with darker skin tones, and now the US Food and Drug Administration is proposing guidance to help ...

Taiwan Biophotonic Co., a leading provider of non-invasive vital signs sensing solutions, today announced the release of its DOE reflective sensor for fingerless wrist-worn pulse oximeters, which ...

Dr. Takuo Aoyagi, a Japanese bioengineer, was the first to invent pulse oximetry in 1974. 2 The pulse oximeter is based on the light absorption characteristics of hemoglobin at different wavelengths.