Author Archives: Julien

How e-health data mining can help scientific research.

The technology and processes of e-health were designed primarily for communication: enabling the fast and easy transmission of information from the patients to the healthcare providers who can treat them. A side effect of this is that, over time, it will generate large databases of measurements, medical imagery, symptom descriptions, diagnostics, etc. The reason for this is that in most cases the data is not meant to be treated in real time but stored to be examined later.

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Why is measuring the humidity level in a room important for a baby?

One of the features of the Smart Baby Monitor allows parents to check the temperature and level of humidity in baby’s room. While it’s easy to see why temperature can affect baby’s health or comfort, some might be wondering about the significance of humidity for a newborn. Here are a few answers.

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Withings at Doctors 2.0 & You

Like last year, Withings will be present at the conference “Doctors 2.0 & You” in the Cité Universtaire of Paris, in May 23rd and 24th. Doctors 2.0 & You is a digital health conference founded by social media and eHealth experts. As winners of last year’s Start-Up Contest, Withings has been re-invited, this time with the status of Exhibitor.

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The Withings Blood Pressure Monitor has been awarded the iF Gold Product Design Award

You may remember that back in October, the Withings Blood Pressure Monitor received the iF Product Design Award from the International Forum Design. Today, we can announce that the Blood Pressure Monitor has been honored with the iF Gold Product Design Award.

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The Smart Baby Monitor comes to the US rich with new features

Last week, the Smart Baby Monitor was finally released in the US. We have already talked at length about the main product features and you can always find them all described in detail on our website, so the purpose of this article will be to focus on the new features we have added since the monitor was launched in Europe in November 2011.

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Now you can share the health!

If you visited the blog in the past week, you may have noticed a new button alongside the traditional choices to share an article, Facebook, Twitter and Google’s +1. The “Healthy” button was created by our partner RunKeeper to let you share articles that you find interesting with your “Street Team” of friends.

As the name implies, the Healthy button is designed mostly for health-related news and articles, but when you think about it, any article that or makes you that teaches you something new or that challenges you in some way can be considered Healthy! If you see anything interesting on the Withings blog, be sure to click on the white heart!

Now you can share the health!

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