Thumbnail:  Tags:  remote patient monitoring Categories:  Provider Author:  HIMSS TV Subheader:  Sumit Nagpal, Cherish Health CEO, discusses his new endeavor aimed at health assurance through prevention by using in-home radar technology to track individuals, and the importance of cross-sector collaboration for better patient outcomes. Short Headline:  Preventing health complications with radar technology Region Tag:  Global Edition HOT@HIMSS:  Enterprise Taxonomy:  Quality Care Node settings:  Exclude from Accelerate RSS feed ..read more

Israeli healthtech startup Biobeat and Best Buy Health are teaming up to integrate the capabilities of Biobeat's wrist and chest monitors, tying them into Best Buy Health's Current Health platform. The big box retailer, which acquired home care platform Current in 2021, will feature Biobeat's wearables as part of its remote patient monitoring (RPM) solutions. Biobeat's RPM devices are based on proprietary data collection mechanisms for monitoring 13 health parameters continuously. The company's wearables, which include a short-term, disposable chest-monitor and a long-term wrist-monitor, util ..read more

Thumbnail:  Tags:  HIMSS23 Europe Startup PitchFest remote patient monitoring Categories:  Provider Author:  HIMSS TV Subheader:  Carmen Pauline Rios Benton, cofounder of the HIMSS23 Europe Startup PitchFest winning company, Doctomatic, discusses how the company uses visual AI to provide a device-agnostic platform that scans and analyzes data and sends it to a doctor. Short Headline:  Hearing from HIMSS23 Europe's Startup PitchFest Winner Region Tag:  EMEA HOT@HIMSS:  Enterprise Taxonomy:  AI Node settings:  Exclude from Ac ..read more

AI-backed remote monitoring and digital therapeutics company Biofourmis confirmed the company's cofounder Kuldeep Singh Rajput stepped down as its CEO just one month after the company laid off 120 employees worldwide, 48 of whom were in the U.S.   "He remains committed to providing support and advice to the company going forward," Biofourmis told MobiHealthNews in an email. "We thank Kuldeep for his vision and service to Biofourmis and wish him success in his future endeavors, and we are conducting a search for a new chief executive." The Boston-based company said that Ben Wanamaker ..read more

The digital health arm of India-based pharmaceutical company Lupin has unveiled its e-clinic attending to heart failure patients. Called Lyfe, the virtual clinic is manned by a team of paramedics, nurses, cardiotherapists, health coaches and care managers who support cardiologists in managing their patients. Without specifying, Lupin Digital Health said the clinic is equipped with AI-guided software and internationally-approved medical devices that help "provide clinically actionable alerts and insights."  It also has technologies that render real-time updates for doctors and o ..read more

AI-backed remote monitoring and digital therapeutics company Biofourmis confirmed it laid off 120 employees worldwide, including 48 workers in the U.S. The Boston-based company offers home care tools to help remotely monitor acute and post-acute patients, alerting a care team when a patient's condition changes from their personal baseline. It also offers digital therapies, including a heart failure tool dubbed BiovitalsHF software that received FDA Breakthrough Device Designation in 2021. The tool aims to monitor patients and help them optimize their medication dosage.  The company also ..read more

Addiction-focused behavioral health provider Praesum Healthcare announced a partnership with ObservSMART to utilize its wearable device and staff tablet to perform patient checks on noncompliant patient populations.  ObservSMART offers patented, tamper-resistant wearables that help providers comply with patient checks and document patient location and behaviors. Providers can complete proximity-based patient checks using synced tablets, and the company's app sends notifications to providers to help them remember to check on patients and alerts supervisors if a patient check is missed.&nb ..read more

Casana, maker of a health monitoring smart toilet seat, announced this week it had received its first FDA 510(k) clearance. The startup's Heart Seat received the agency green light for monitoring heart rate and oxygen saturation in adults at least 22 years and older who weigh 90 to 350 pounds. Casana said the battery-powered seat can run for several years without recharging, sending health data to providers and notifying them when parameters are outside of a set threshold. The company plans to file with the FDA for additional monitoring capabilities, including blood pressure tracking, an ..read more

Israeli-based Neteera, which offers contactless remote patient monitoring, announced it had closed a Series B funding round worth about $13 million. Aescuvest led the round, alongside existing and new investors Nanz Family Office, Omega Healthcare Investors, Esas Private Equity and Ankor Holding. The company also announced its strategic partnership with Omega, which provides technology-enabled revenue cycle management and clinical communication services. Omega will offer Neteera's platform to its long-term care and skilled nursing facilities in the U.S. WHAT IT DOES Neteera offers a contactle ..read more

One of the key tenets of New York City-based Mount Sinai Health System's remote patient monitoring program is choosing easy-to-use devices that don't require extra technology on the patient's end, said Cathleen Mathew, director of condition management and population health. The program, which went live in 2020, is largely focused on hypertension, but the health system also includes monitoring for heart failure, pregnancy, COPD, diabetes and COVID-19.  "So 40% of our patients we've identified do not have a smartphone at enrollment. Fifty-two percent of these patients live in an area where ..read more