South Korean health tech startup Sky Labs has raised 20.7 billion won ($15.3 million) in a Series C funding round led by the government-run Korea Development Bank.
K2 Investment Partners, Devsisters Ventures, SJG Partners, and OpenWater Investment also joined the investing round.
This brings its total investment to 54.8 billion won ($40.5 million). It last raised $20 million in a Series B round...
LiveMetric announced it has received FDA 510(k) clearance for its watch-like blood pressure monitor, LiveOne.
The cuffless device uses a sensor array placed over the radial artery to produce a pressure waveform. The waveform is then analyzed by an algorithm to determine systolic and diastolic blood pressure and pulse rate. According to the FDA's 510(k) database, LiveOne is intended to be used in...
CardieX files 510(k) for dual blood pressure, arterial health monitor
Australia-listed health tech firm CardieX has filed a 510(k) premarket submission with the US Food and Drug Administration for its dual blood pressure and arterial health monitor.
Called the CONNEQT Pulse, the health monitor features CardieX's FDA-cleared SphygmoCor technology which measures central blood pressure to obtain...
Amrita University, a private university in India, has launched a wearable health monitoring device for home use.
WHAT IT DOES
Developed by Amrita's Centre for Wireless Networks and Applications, Amrita Spandanam is a wearable device that uses a finger clip to measure six body parameters: blood glucose, blood pressure, heart rate, blood oxygen, respiratory rate, and 6-lead ECG. According to a...
Continuous blood pressure monitoring wearable system Aktiia landed $17.5 million in Series A funding this morning. Draper Esprit led the round with participation from 415 Capital, Redalpine Venture Partners and Verve Capital, and Translink Capital.
This news comes roughly a year after the Swiss-based startup announced a $6.1 million funding round led by Redalpine. As of today, the company has...
A digital self-management program using an app and a connected monitor could help lower blood pressure and maintain those improvements long-term, according to a study published in JAMA Network Open.
The study used Hello Heart devices, and was funded by the company. Two of the study’s authors were also Hello Heart employees.
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After one year, researchers found median systolic blood...
This morning Caretaker Medical landed FDA clearance for its blood pressure and hemodynamic patient monitoring system VitalStream.
The tool uses a low-pressure finger sensor and wrist-worn device to monitor a patient’s blood pressure noninvasively and continuously. Using artificial intelligence to capture blood pressure and hemodynamic parameters, the tool is able to conduct “spot-check”...
Samsung is the latest wearable company to enter the ECG monitoring space, following an announcement on Sunday that the function on its Health Monitoring app got the greenlight from South Korea’s Ministry of Food and Drug Safety.
This means that Galaxy Watch Active2 users in South Korea will be able to use the tool to detect any heart rhythm irregularities, which could be linked to AFib.
It’s no...
Apple’s next health move could be smart clothing. Last year the tech giant filed a patent for a stretchable fabric band that could include circuitry sensors to measure blood pressure, respiration rate and ECG signals.
The patent application, published October 3, describes a fabric-based piece of clothing that would be able to wirelessly communicate with external electronic equipment. While it...
When it comes to the future of blood pressure monitoring, there may be a new alternative to the traditional cuff: a video selfie.
New research published in Circulation: Cardiovascular Imaging found that a smartphone-based blood pressure measurement that employs transdermal optical imaging technology was able to predict systolic and diastolic blood pressure with high accuracy.
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