at-home monitoring

Person sitting in a chair while holding a phone and a cane and wearing headphones
By  Jessica Hagen 11:02 am September 14, 2023
Best Buy Health announced it is expanding its partnership with Pennsylvania-based healthcare system Geisinger to improve chronic disease management at home by combining their expertise.  In 2021, Geisinger launched ConnectedCare365, its chronic care management platform, and enrolled patients in remote patient monitoring programs. Patients received devices, such as blood pressure cuffs and glucose...
An older man in his home listening to music on his smartphone
By  Emily Olsen 12:18 pm April 11, 2022
Researchers built a functional in-home monitoring system using off-the-shelf sensors to identify abnormal events, according to a proof-of-concept study published in JMIR.  The study followed 12 adults with a median age of 89 in a Swedish city using motion sensors, wall plugs and smart water meters. Three participants dropped out due to unforeseen life circumstances. Before the study began,...
Two seniors relax on a track with Apple smart devices
By  Dave Muoio 02:57 pm March 25, 2021
iPhones and Apple Watches could enable at-home assessment of cardiovascular disease patients' frailty via sensor data and an app-guided version of the six-minute walk test (6MWT), a traditionally clinic-based assessment of a person's functional capacity, according to data published yesterday in PLoS One. Conducted by Stanford University researchers and funded by Apple, the study provided 110...
By  Dave Muoio 01:28 pm April 29, 2020
The shift toward "aging in place" has been fueled by a range of health monitoring technologies – fall-detection pendants, emergency alert systems, fingertip blood pressure monitors, ECG patches and so on. But the senior population has needs and preferences unique from the general population, creating a home health monitoring challenge that can't simply be solved by sending them home with clinical...
By  Dave Muoio 04:23 pm October 1, 2019
Edinburgh, Scotland-based patient monitoring wearable and platform company Current Health (formerly snap40) has cut deals with fellow connected monitor maker VivaLNK and spirometry device company MIR (Medical International Research) to add axillary temperature and spirometry measurement capabilities to its offering. Enabled by a 510(k) clearance posted by the FDA back in July, these types of...
By  Dave Muoio 02:10 pm September 11, 2019
Myia Labs has raised $10 million in a Series A funding round led by Mercy Virtual, which pledged $5 million after deploying the startup’s AI and consumer wearable monitoring platform among its patients over the last few years. Other investors in the round include Zetta Venture Partners, BootstrapLabs, Boston Consulting Group and B Capital Group, all of which participated in last year’s $6.75...