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This week on LifeeCode, Deveendra Murmu examines the health-data middleman: the services, networks, and platforms that can help information move among care providers, laboratories, payers, and public-health agencies. We unpack CDC’s Request for Information on data intermediaries, then cover a rare-disease wearable trial measure, the FDA advisory debate over Galleri, a maternal-monitoring wearable,...

This week on LifeeCode, Deveendra Murmu explores a privacy-first question for health AI: where does a clinical system process your health data, and what happens when it is uncertain? We examine peer-reviewed research on an on-premise medical AI agent, then cover FDA oversight for radiology AI, CMS’s planned technology-supported chronic-care expansion, hospital-operations AI, rural-hospital data in...

This week on LifeeCode, Deveendra Murmu examines a new health-tech shift: apps are moving from collecting data to interpreting it. We unpack Apple’s announced Health app and Apple Watch updates, discuss the difference between a signal and a clinical conclusion, and look at medication-monitoring wearables, clinical-trial AI, referral automation, and wearable heart monitoring. This episode is educat...

This week on LifeeCode, Deveendra Murmu explains why the most important part of a home health device may be the service behind it. We examine a CMS proposal that could change Medicare payment for remote patient monitoring, then look at medical-AI evidence, consumer wearable integration, family health data, and WHO/Europe’s call for governance readiness. This episode is educational and not medical...

This week on LifeeCode, Deveendra Murmu examines a newly FDA-authorized wearable that continuously tracks both glucose and ketones for people living with diabetes. We cover what the second signal can add, why trends need clinical context, and what continuous health data means for privacy. Also this week: FDA-supported home-recovery technology, the methods behind wearable-data research, a safety we...

This week on LifeeCode, Deveendra Murmu explains what a wearable score needs before it can become meaningful clinical evidence. We cover the FDA’s new paper on digitally derived measures, emerging rules for generative-AI medical devices, a wearable platform for Parkinson’s monitoring, AI-assisted biomarker discovery, patient trust in health AI, and India’s expanding national health-data gateway. T...

Google has announced a wearable feature that tracks insulin-resistance trends from multi-week data. In this episode, Deveendra Murmu explains why a trend is not a diagnosis, what to do when a wearable insight concerns you, and how to think about the privacy cost of turning sleep, motion, pulse, and activity into a metabolic-health signal. We also cover peer-reviewed smart-ring sensing research, AI...

This week on LifeeCode, Deveendra Murmu breaks down a new GAO report on what needs to change before wearable data can reliably support clinical decisions. We also cover hospital-to-home monitoring, a privacy-preserving diabetes telemedicine project, the FDA’s push for more continuous trial evidence, a wearable-activated therapy for urgency urinary incontinence, and a Global Watch signal on how old...

This week on LifeeCode, Deveendra Murmu breaks down why similar-looking wearables can face very different regulatory treatment depending on whether they are marketed as wellness tools or clinical tools. We also cover a new study linking wearable adoption to lower healthcare trust, fresh warnings about the uneven validity of consumer wearables in research, the FDA’s first TEMPO digital-health pilot...

This week on LifeeCode, Deveendra Murmu breaks down a new Parkinson’s wearable study that suggests continuous sensor data may detect disease progression earlier than clinic visits alone. We also cover the FDA’s push to use more digital health tools in drug trials, a microneedle wearable that may flag kidney and liver stress early, new evidence linking everyday wearable data to insulin-resistance d...

This week's LifeeCode brief examines Meta's new health-capable AI rollout and why consumer AI asking for sensitive medical information is fundamentally a privacy story. The episode also covers FDA-cleared maternal-fetal wearables, wearable-ring vascular-age estimation, and the latest push toward patient-controlled health-data interoperability.

Health data privacy just changed — and most people haven't noticed yet. This week on LifeeCode, Deveendra Murmu breaks down the five health tech stories that matter most right now: • Google and the U.S. government have partnered to put your official medical records inside the Fitbit app — HIPAA covers the clinical data, but your wearable data in the same app is not HIPAA-protected. • Samsung G...

Did you know your new AI chatbot might be reading your medical records? Between January and March of 2026, five major tech companies launched health-specific AI products designed to connect directly to your most sensitive data—completely outside of HIPAA protections. In this week's LifeeCode brief, we unpack the massive new rush to centralise medical data and what it means for your privacy. Ke...

This week on LifeeCode: a landmark Nature Medicine study proves your Apple Watch can predict a heart failure hospitalisation **21 days before it happens** — with a threefold accuracy advantage over traditional clinical assessments. Plus: Apple Watch is now tracking Parkinson's motor symptoms in a 500-patient drug trial; a Duke University blood test predicts two-year survival with 86% accuracy...

Have you ever stared at a lab result portal, completely baffled by what it means for your actual life? Or wondered why your smartwatch, your fitness app, and your doctor's records never seem to talk to each other? This week on LifeeCode, Deveendra Murmu dives into the massive launch of Microsoft Copilot Health. By finally integrating data from over 50 wearable devices with electronic health re...

Your wearable is tracking your heart rate, sleep, blood oxygen, and glucose. The FDA just reclassified millions of these devices — and your health data may now be legally for sale. In Episode 1 of LifeeCode, Deveendra Murmu breaks down the FDA's January 2026 guidance documents that quietly moved smartwatches, sleep trackers, and optical glucose sensors out of medical device oversight and into...