wearables — Faces of digital health podcast

F103 How are smart garments making remote patient monitoring comfortable? (Laurent Vandebrouck, Chronolife)

Chronolife is a French company innovating in the space of smart garments for remote patient monitoring. Clothes are not the main innovation of the company, their secret sauce is a patented neuromorphic (bio-mimetic) algorithm, HOTS (Hierarchy Of event-based Time-Surfaces). The algorithm detects and predicts deterioration in patients’ state of health and alerts caregivers to allow earlier intervention and avoid costly hospitalizations.

Data, Entrepreneurship, Country Profile, COVID-19Tjasa ZajcOctober 16, 2020smart garments, wearablesComment

F102 How are connected health devices becoming increasingly medically relevant (Mathieu Letombe, Withings)

Do you remember the first connected scale? It came to the market in 2009 by a French company called Withings. By today the company created a number of connected health devices and is increasing its efforts to expand its presence in the clinical space.

Data, StartupsTjasa ZajcOctober 9, 2020wearables, medical device, Iot, Connected health, WithingsComment