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Cuffless device delivers clinically accurate blood pressure measurements

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Re: Cuffless device delivers clinically accurate blood pressure measurements

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Post by fatsdomino001 »

blhack wrote: post #8

There is a conference in Germany every year called medica. If you are interested in medical devices, I highly recommend going there and checking it out. It's an absolutely MASSIVE grounds with THOUSANDS of vendors showing everything from MRI machines to boroscopes, ambulance equipment...anything related to the medical field. Something which absolutely surprised me when I was there a few years ago was the amount of Io…

Sounds amazing. Wondering if you could shed some more light on what's possible these days with IoT health devices? I've been a bit out of the loop on these developments

Re: Cuffless device delivers clinically accurate blood pressure measurements

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Post by tootie »

blhack wrote: post #8

There is a conference in Germany every year called medica. If you are interested in medical devices, I highly recommend going there and checking it out. It's an absolutely MASSIVE grounds with THOUSANDS of vendors showing everything from MRI machines to boroscopes, ambulance equipment...anything related to the medical field. Something which absolutely surprised me when I was there a few years ago was the amount of Io…

Any idea how this BP device actually works? Is it optical? How is it possible to measure without a cuff?

Re: Cuffless device delivers clinically accurate blood pressure measurements

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Post by pkaye »

rsingla wrote: post #2

Can someone elaborate on value proposition for this sort of device? What problem(s) does it solve?

In my situation, I have to do home dialysis and need to measure my BP before and after treatment every day. I feel this device would be quicker to use and won't trigger the anxiety that some people feel with a normal BP machine squeezing on their arm. That anxiety can skew your BP numbers considerably.

Re: Cuffless device delivers clinically accurate blood pressure measurements

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Post by nradov »

blhack wrote: post #8

There is a conference in Germany every year called medica. If you are interested in medical devices, I highly recommend going there and checking it out. It's an absolutely MASSIVE grounds with THOUSANDS of vendors showing everything from MRI machines to boroscopes, ambulance equipment...anything related to the medical field. Something which absolutely surprised me when I was there a few years ago was the amount of Io…

There have been IoT connected blood pressure monitors, scales, and smart watches with SpO2 monitoring available in the US for years. Check out the products from Withings, Garmin, Apple, etc. What exactly are we missing?

Re: Cuffless device delivers clinically accurate blood pressure measurements

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Post by tdy721 »

tootie wrote: post #12
blhack wrote: post #8

There is a conference in Germany every year called medica. If you are interested in medical devices, I highly recommend going there and checking it out. It's an absolutely MASSIVE grounds with THOUSANDS of vendors showing everything from MRI machines to boroscopes, ambulance equipment...anything related to the medical field. Something which absolutely surprised me when I was there a few years ago was the amount of Io…

Any idea how this BP device actually works? Is it optical? How is it possible to measure without a cuff?

Read the article? You pinch it I think. Put it on your forehead for temperature

Re: Cuffless device delivers clinically accurate blood pressure measurements

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Post by nsajko »

tootie wrote: post #12
blhack wrote: post #8

There is a conference in Germany every year called medica. If you are interested in medical devices, I highly recommend going there and checking it out. It's an absolutely MASSIVE grounds with THOUSANDS of vendors showing everything from MRI machines to boroscopes, ambulance equipment...anything related to the medical field. Something which absolutely surprised me when I was there a few years ago was the amount of Io…

Any idea how this BP device actually works? Is it optical? How is it possible to measure without a cuff?

I guess this is the underlying tech: https://www.leman-micro.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/LMD-W...

So the pressure is just measured with a MEMS (microelectromechanical) device, the temperature with a different one, and there's also a pulse oximeter (optical).

Re: Cuffless device delivers clinically accurate blood pressure measurements

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Post by blhack »

nradov wrote: post #16
blhack wrote: post #8

There is a conference in Germany every year called medica. If you are interested in medical devices, I highly recommend going there and checking it out. It's an absolutely MASSIVE grounds with THOUSANDS of vendors showing everything from MRI machines to boroscopes, ambulance equipment...anything related to the medical field. Something which absolutely surprised me when I was there a few years ago was the amount of Io…

There have been IoT connected blood pressure monitors, scales, and smart watches with SpO2 monitoring available in the US for years. Check out the products from Withings, Garmin, Apple, etc. What exactly are we missing?

That most of them aren't FDA certified, and can't be used for diagnostic purposes. These things are mostly marketed for "fitness".

(This at least was one of the major hurdles we faced. Maybe the regulations have changed in the last 4 years or so. I'm not in that space anymore. The recommendation to go check out medica is still valid though. It's really cool!)

Re: Cuffless device delivers clinically accurate blood pressure measurements

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Post by blhack »

fatsdomino001 wrote: post #11
blhack wrote: post #8

There is a conference in Germany every year called medica. If you are interested in medical devices, I highly recommend going there and checking it out. It's an absolutely MASSIVE grounds with THOUSANDS of vendors showing everything from MRI machines to boroscopes, ambulance equipment...anything related to the medical field. Something which absolutely surprised me when I was there a few years ago was the amount of Io…

Sounds amazing. Wondering if you could shed some more light on what's possible these days with IoT health devices? I've been a bit out of the loop on these developments

Unfortunately I haven't been in that space for a while. The parent company to the project we were working on got acquired, and they didn't pursue our project.

We were trying to bring connected health/predictive analytics to a larger, existing healthcare company.

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