Remote Monitoring

Remote cardiac monitoring technologies enable patient health to be tracked outside the clinical setting. It can be used for longer term monitoring to help diagnosis arrhythmias or other cardiac conditions. Remote monitoring also can keep tabs on chronic conditions such as heart failure or hypertension and alert clinicians to worsening symptoms to avoid an acute care episode or hospitalization.

Medtronic receives key FDA clearance, launches new diabetes system
Medtronic designed its new Smart MDI system to provide real-time insights to users on multiple daily injection therapy.
Abbott opens CGM sensor manufacturing facility in Ireland as part of $465M investment
Abbott expects the new facility to produce more FreeStyle Libre 3 sensors than anywhere else in the world.
Predicting sudden cardiac death after a heart attack may be impossible—for now
Researchers tried to crack the code, but they fell short time and time again. AI may offer potential as one way to finally find an answer, they added.
Pediatric cardiology device competition introduces world to new technologies
Most cardiac devices do not fit young children, making it especially important for growth in pediatric cardiology to continue. The FDA helped fund a contest aimed at identifying new devices that show a ton of potential.
NIH awards commercialization grant for wrist-worn continuous ICU-grade blood pressure monitor
Dynocardia has now received nearly $5.1 million in funding from the NHLBI to help speed commercializing its wrist-worn monitor to avoid the need for invasive catheter BP monitoring.

HF patients avoid hospitalization with remote monitoring of implanted devices

A remote monitoring protocol for heart failure patients with implantable electronic devices helped more of them stay out of the hospital over a one-year period than standard in-person visits, researchers reported at EHRA 2019.

March 19, 2019

Exercise interventions for PAD may require personal support

A randomized trial published April 24 in JAMA suggests patients with lower-extremity peripheral artery disease (PAD) can’t be expected to improve walking performance on their own, even with the aid of wearable activity trackers and telephone coaching sessions.

April 25, 2018

Remote Monitoring

Medtronic receives key FDA clearance, launches new diabetes system

Abbott opens CGM sensor manufacturing facility in Ireland as part of $465M investment

Predicting sudden cardiac death after a heart attack may be impossible—for now

Pediatric cardiology device competition introduces world to new technologies

NIH awards commercialization grant for wrist-worn continuous ICU-grade blood pressure monitor