Monitoring and Manangement Technology

Blood Glucose Monitoring

• Medtronic & Fitbit partner to connect activity data with continuous glucose monitoring (1/24/17)
• Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has deemed certain therapeutic continuous blood glucose meters (CGMs) as durable medical equipment and thus are eligible for coverage starting with Dexcom G5. (1/14/17)

Heart Monitoring

• Northwell Health partners with Peerbridge Health will enable remote monitoring for of wearables of cardiac patients. (5/24/17)
• AliveCor is launching an artificially intelligent stroke prevention platform for doctors (3/16/17)
• Study shows AliveCor mobile device coupled with a smartphone app can detect atrial fibrillation (5/20/15)
• Heart Monitor - GreatCall, a mobile health developer of apps, smart phones and other products, and monitoring device developer AliveCor are merging mobile health with cardiology. AliveCor Heart Monitor, which retails for $200, includes medical grade electrocardiogram recordings, which can be shared directly with a physician or cardiologist by way of a cloud-based analysis, according to the company. (10/30/14)

Passive Sensor Monitoring

• Non-verbal Communication Monitoring via passive sensors - Inside A Robot Eyeball, Science Will Decode Our Body Language. Carnegie Mellon researchers have created the Panoptic Studio, a box that combines 480 separate video streams to decode non-verbal communication. (12/14/15)

Patient Monitoring

• Novant Health, a North Carolina provider, will use Epic’s Healthy Planet link to share dashboard information regarding current health trends with patients and physicians through Epic’s patient portal MyChart. (6/13/17)
• Trinity Health used the Vivify remote monitoring platform to expand virtual services to home health patients in seven states. The goal is to reduce visits to the emergency room as well as inpatient admissions for high-risk patients. (2/1/17)

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