Tactio Health Group, a Montreal-based company that builds smartphone-connected remote patient monitoring devices, will run a 25-person pilot study with the University of Michigan Health System, studying the effects of pharmacist-led home blood pressure monitoring and medication reminders on people with hypertension.
"This study seeks to put patient collected data into the hands of a healthcare...
Patient empowerment often is about taking care into one's own hands. Usually that means making a lot of noise or at least asking a lot of questions. Less common is the entrepreneurial path in search of a technological fix to a personal health issue.
Michael Seres, co-founder of London-based 11 Health, took the latter approach.
As Seres tells it, he was diagnosed with Crohn's Disease at age 12....
