eDevice today announced HealthGO, its technology platform for Remote Patient Monitoring built on Freescale Semiconductor’s Home Health Hub (HHH) reference platform to help medical device and healthcare monitoring companies quickly roll out an end-to-end solution for home-based monitoring, according to recent news.
The company’s services are geared towards helping seniors “age in place,” allowing them to remain at home while being safely and remotely monitored for chronic conditions.
According to the Administration on Aging (AOA), there were almost 40 million persons 65 years or older in 2009 (the latest year for which data is available) in the US, representing 12.9 percent of the population, about one in every eight Americans. The AOA predicts that, by 2030, there will be about 72.1 million older persons, more than twice their number in 2000. Most, if not all, of these people will at some time in their lives require remote monitoring.
The press release reports that, according to Berg Insight, only 2.2 million patients worldwide were using a home monitoring service based on equipment with integrated connectivity, but more than 200 million people in Europe and the US suffer chronic disease that could be handled at home rather than the hospital with remote monitoring.
The press release adds that the number of home-monitoring systems with integrated cellular connectivity is predicted to grow at a CAGR of 34.6 percent during the next five years.
The HealthGO will be marketed by home-monitoring companies, who will benefit, eDevice says in the press release, from not having to develop these kinds of systems and monitors on their own.
The HealthGO monitors include vital signs monitoring; USB and Bluetooth peripheral interfaces; embedded blood pressure monitor (optional on HealthGO+), a touch-screen, embedded microphone and speaker; disease management potential, and the capability to display information, messages, weather or heath education tutorials, according to the press release.
“With the Freescale HHH reference platform, we created a solution designed to securely connect millions of patients to their caregivers,” said Marc Berrebi, CEO of eDevice in the press release. “We will now offer the only customizable technology platform for remote patient monitoring. We are proud to partner with Freescale because they are committed to help people live a better life by driving innovation and enabling medical device manufacturers to leverage the latest technology available to use for their products.”
“Together with our experience in embedded, sensing, and wireless technologies and eDevices market expertise, we will help improve the lives of patients worldwide,” said Steven Dean, Freescale’s director of medical marketing, in the press release.
Edited by
Juliana Kenny
