remote vital signs

FDA expands use of vital sign monitors to enable remote care, modifications during COVID-19 emergency

By Dave Muoio 04:50 pm March 20, 2020

The FDA announced today a new policy that permits expanded use of connected, non-invasive remote vital sign monitors until the end of the COVID-19 public health emergency. The agency is relaxing its prior guidance so that healthcare teams can monitor their patients outside of the hospital with certain devices that were previously cleared by the FDA, thereby freeing up space for the high volume...

Spanish company testing stretcher with wireless heart monitor

By Neil Versel 04:41 am July 2, 2013

A Spanish startup company is testing and pursuing regulatory approval for a wireless stretcher that allows for continuous monitoring of heart and stroke patients even when patients are being moved. Imaxdi, based in Vigo, Spain, has embedded its own, patented heart monitoring technology into a stretcher and has been testing prototypes for about six months at hospital in the autonomous Spanish...