Spry Health Keeps Tight Focus with Loop

Spry Health’s tight focus could have significantly beneficial implications for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)patients. The Palo Alto, CA-based company and winner of the 2018 MedTech StartUp Showdown  said it has received FDA clearance for the Loop System, a wearable that has the ability to remotely monitor patients with chronic diseases. While the device has the potential to look at other disease states, company executives said they want to have a tight focus on COPD, a chronic illness that claims more than 120,000 lives in the U.S. each year. “The blessing and the curse of the type of technology we have built is that it can be useful in a lot of different conditions,” Pierre-Jean “PJ” Cobut, co-founder and CEO of Spry Health, told MD+DI. “It’s a blessing because it means that, yes, this product and this technology really do have legs to broaden the scope beyond COPD. The curse is, as a small company - you really do have to start somewhere that’s relatively specific and prove that your product actually works within that specific context - and go from there.” The Loop System uses optical sensors located on a wristband to measure pulse oximetry, respiration rate and heart rate. This wearable doesn’t require any input or data from patients and does not require a smartphone or ...
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