Your Home as Clinical Lab: Withings Brings “Your Urine, Your Self” to #CES2023
By Jane Sarasohn-Kahn on 4 January 2023 in Broadband, Chronic care, Chronic disease, Clinical lab, Connected health, Consumer electronics, Consumer experience, Consumer-directed health, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Design and health, Diet and health, Digital health, DTC health, European health care, FDA, Fertility, Food and health, GDPR, Health apps, Health at home, Health Consumers, Health ecosystem, Health engagement, HIPAA, Home care, Home health, Internet of things, Moms and health, Nutrition, Prevention, Remote health monitoring, Reproductive health, Retail health, Self-care, Sensors and health, Sex and health, Smart homes, Smartwatches, Telehealth, User experience UX, Virtual health, Wearable tech, Wearables
We’ve all been morphing our homes into our personal HealthQuarters since the start of the coronavirus era. Millions of global health citizens have taken to telehealth who never used a health care “digital front door” before. Other patients adopted remote health monitoring to avoid perennial visits to doctors for managing chronic conditions like diabetes or heart disease. From the kitchen to the bedroom, our homes have become our health hubs. And now, to the bathroom and specifically, the toilet. Withings, maker of my personally favorite connected weight scale, announced U-Scan, a direct-to-consumer lab test platform that analyzes our urine from
Dr. Joe Kvedar is a pioneer in telehealth: I first met Joe when I did research for the California Healthcare Foundation on the history of telemedicine (publishedin CHCF's paper, Right Here, Right Now: Ten Telehealth Pioneers Make it Work, published in November 2008! Fourteen years later, I was delighted to spend time brainstorming the state of telehealth post-pandemic, and future prospects.
Innovation in health care in 2023 will not be remembered for the shiny new things in digital health nor heady valuations in bullish venture capital boardrooms. In 2023, the sexy innovation thing will be integration, I explain, in my January 2023 column for Medecision which analyzes observations from #JPM2023 and #CES2023.
I'm looking forward to returning, live, to the South-by-Southwest Festival health and med track, to collaborate with my friends from Real Chemistry and the entire health ecosystem attending the conference. Stay tuned to updates here on Health Populi about what I'm learning and seeing at #SXSW23.