The health monitoring boom only gets weirder from here

Withings also used CES to launch Cardio Checkup, an in-app service now available and compatible with all Withings devices with ECG capabilities, like the ScanWatch. In addition to alerting you to possible cases of atrial fibrillation, it will monitor you, as its name suggests, every quarter and give you access to specialists via the application.

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And that’s not all: I still have several days of meetings left. It’s a strange time to see CES littered with so much home medical technology. The coronavirus pandemic sparked a wave of digital health innovation, but 2024 was a reckoning: CNBC analyzed 39 public digital health companies and noted that two-thirds of them were down this year, or even bankrupt.

This decline could be linked to the fact that consumers have decided, quite reasonably, that we could I don’t want to know that much. It’s simply much easier to monitor your cortisol levels than to do anything to address the conditions that produced them, like quitting your job or preventing wildfires from happening.

When I spoke to Abbott representatives, I learned that I wasn’t the only one hesitant about inserting filaments under my skin. (I’m still waiting for my Apple Watch to track my blood sugar.)

However, I finally pulled myself together and inserted the Lingo at Pepcom. Under the watchful guidance of Abbott representatives, I rolled up my shirt sleeve, put the sensor in the dispenser, and tapped it against my skin. It continued with one click. The sensation was like someone forcefully poking my arm with a finger – a slight sting, but not like a thousand needles of fire were passing under my skin.

I connected the sensor to the Lingo app and wore it all night. When I woke up this morning, I discovered, after one night, that I had become hypoglycemic during my sleep. I hit rock bottom from walking too much and not eating enough at CES! So much for not providing practical advice. I’ll eat my words (and a snack before bed).