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AliveCor partners with Omron to integrate BP data into Kardia mobile app
AliveCor said today it is partnering with Omron Healthcare to integrate data from its Bluetooth-enabled home blood pressure devices into AliveCor’s ECG Kardia mobile application. The Mountain View, Calif.-based company said the integration marks the 1st consumer-ready, clinically validated electrocardiogram and blood pressure monitor application which provides heart health information and proactive monitoring. “Giving patients the ability to monitor two vital heart health statistics for stroke in one place has the opportunity to be life-changing. With this combined data, patients can change their most importa...
Source: Mass Device - September 8, 2016 Category: Medical Equipment Authors: Fink Densford Tags: Business/Financial News Diagnostics mHealth (Mobile Health) AliveCor Omron Healthcare Source Type: news

AliveCor raises $30m, launches Kardia Pro platform in U.S.
AliveCor said today that it landed $30 million in a series D funding round and that it released its artificial intelligence-enabled Kardia Pro platform in the U.S. The company’s platform enables doctors to remotely monitor their patients for early signs of atrial fibrillation, a common cardiac arrhythmia. “Heart disease is the No. 1 cause of death in the United States, claiming more lives than all forms of cancer combined. To manage heart disease and stroke risk, leading cardiologists want to see more than just ECGs from their patients,” CEO Vic Gundotra said in prepared remarks. “Kardia Pro tracks important meas...
Source: Mass Device - March 16, 2017 Category: Medical Equipment Authors: Sarah Faulkner Tags: Cardiovascular Funding Roundup Patient Monitoring Wall Street Beat AliveCor Source Type: news

Prehospital Tech Startup Wins the American Heart Association ’s Health Tech Competition
New York, N.Y. – The American Heart Association (AHA) 2016 Health Tech Competition awarded the People’s Choice Award to Twiage, a novel prehospital communication solution enabling real-time triage and care coordination for incoming ambulances. The competition recognizes innovative healthcare solutions that improve patient outcomes for heart health. Twiage delivers real-time situational awareness of incoming ambulances to busy emergency departments through a secure and HIPAA-compliant smartphone app. Paramedics and EMTs can use Twiage to notify a hospital of an incoming cardiac patient within seconds and then quickly tr...
Source: JEMS Administration and Leadership - November 15, 2016 Category: Emergency Medicine Tags: Industry News Communications & Dispatch Source Type: news

Here ’s How Well the Apple Watch Can Detect Heart Problems
It’s one of the goals of digital medicine: you wear a device on your wrist that constantly monitors aspects of your health, and if anything is off, it sends you an alert. That’s your cue to connect with your doctor or get a more thorough checkup to head off any potentially serious problems down the road. That’s the idea behind the Heart app on the Apple Watch, which can monitor heart pulse patterns, and detect abnormalities, which could indicate a condition called atrial fibrillation, or AFib. The irregular heart beats characteristic of AFib could lead to stroke, blood clots and heart failure. Researcher...
Source: TIME: Health - November 14, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Alice Park Tags: Uncategorized Apple watch heart Source Type: news