Mobile Patient Monitoring or Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) includes daily monitoring devices such as Continuous Glucose Monitoring (CGM) devices for patients with diabetes, and heart or blood pressure monitors for patients receiving cardiac care. Data is then sent to a doctor’s office or hospital by by using a special software application installed on the patient’s computer, smartphone or tablet PC. According to the National Broadband Plan drafted earlier this year by the FCC, using remote patient monitoring in conjunction with EHR (Electronic Health Records) could benefit the healthcare industry by saving $700 billion over 15 to 20 years. The following companies provide stunning health and wellness solutions, and they are going to exhibit at our WT | Wearable Technologies Show 2018 MEDICA in Dusseldorf November 12-15. Please visit our exhibition and read on to learn more about these companies.
Biovotion, a leading wearable physiology monitoring company, provides integrated solutions with connected hardware and value-added monitoring services. This Switzerland-based company actively promotes the consumerization of healthcare, providing solutions that integrate medical grade quality and reliability with ease-of-use and design of the consumer markets. Biovotion’s solutions support users in keeping a healthy lifestyle, improve healthcare treatment outcomes, and aiming to reduce cost of health provisions. The company’s multi-sensor platform measures various vital signs on your upper arm (e.g. heart rate, stress, respiration). Biovotion’s wearable solutions have been awarded with multiple prestigious prizes and high-caliber endorsements.
ViCardio is the world’s first completely non-invasive, cuff-less, discreet, accurate, beat to beat wearable blood pressure monitor. The device delivers an accurate long-term picture of blood pressure using the Tarilian Laser Technologies’ optical biosensor that detects biological signals. It is a medical grade product that sits comfortably on your wrist without applying any pressure to the body. ViCardio accurately measures your blood pressure at frequent intervals during the day and night, allowing you and your healthcare professionals a completely new level of insight into your blood pressure and how it varies each day, each week and each month. By helping you get a more accurate long-term picture of blood pressure, it allows you to get a better treatment and lifestyle choices. ViCardio is based in London, England.
KOB (Karl Otto Braun) is a global market leader for special medical textiles thanks to its textile technology expertise and the superior quality of its products. Its customer-oriented and competitive products are the result of long-term customer relations with the biggest brand suppliers in the industry. It is the aim of KOBs experts and their extensive knowledge and experience. KOB offers its customers a flexible and competitive range of products for use in sports medicine and orthopedics, phlebology and lymphology, woundcare and pharma. Their core business is production of high-quality elastic bandages for medical use.
mHealth offers wearable rehabilitation solutions for the restoration, assessment and rehabilitation of the motor function, e.g. for the aging population and people with motor impairments. mHT solutions for functional assessment are based on wearable sensors, smartphones, and tablets. They can provide an objective and comprehensive assessment of the motor performance during normal functional tests like the Timed Up and Go. You can have a portable movement analysis lab in your hands! Their solutions can automatically detect the motor status of the person by analyzing her/his movements and provide real-time feedback to improve her/his motor performance.
Founded in 2007, PLUX creates innovative products for physiotherapists and researchers, by developing an advanced biosignal monitoring platform that integrates wearable body sensors such as electromyography (EMG), electrocardiography, respiration, and accelerometers combined with wireless connectivity and software applications to deliver real value recognized by our target markets.
AiQ Smart Clothing has been around since 2009 working on combining textiles with smart technology. The company likes to market their product to all kinds of people from health and fitness to extreme sports to home care and health care. Their smartclothes are made of King’s Metal Fiber, a company that is known for their fashion and functionality. Stainless steel yarn allows for flexibility and will stand up to any and all washing conditions.
SharkDreams develops digital solutions that solve the major problems facing healthcare. By addressing these universal challenges, we aim to make healthcare simpler, facilitate closer patient-provider communication, and enable precision care focused on the needs of individuals. Through our hardware and our software applications, we’re working to build a complete ecosystem that will result in smarter, more connected healthcare providers, and digital clinics that serve the needs of patients better.
LifePlus uses commercial sensors currently being used in many wearables. The startup has announced a new wearable dubbed “LifeLeaf,” which it claims is the world’s first non-invasive continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) wearable device. The difference, the company says is that it has found a way to utilize light from existing sensors to better separate glucose in the blood. The device then takes the isolated data and employs machine learning and artificial intelligence to deliver tracking metrics. On top of monitoring blood glucose levels, this multi-sensor device tracks blood pressure, heart rate, respiration rate, cardiac arrhythmia, sleep apnea, and oxygen saturation.
Sky Labs, is developing a ring-type Cardio Tracker, CART to help continuous monitoring of atrial fibrillation which is difficult to diagnose even in a hospital in daily life. By simply wearing CART on user’s finger, CART continuously detects atrial fibrillation without any user intervention. CART detects and records atrial fibrillation, so users can track and manage their heart health status. In addition, users can diagnose atrial fibrillation whenever they want and see the results on their smartphone. By merely tapping CART, users can make event logs and analyze atrial fibrillation data at that moment when it occurs. Finally, the collected atrial fibrillation data can be used to help the physician diagnose of the atrial fibrillation.
