World’s 1^st Medical-Grade Hospital-Quality High Comfort Digital Garment

1. Problem & Opportunity

Heart-related diseases are the number one killer worldwide, and a major contributor to the $17 billion costs associated with preventable hospital readmissions in the USA.

No ECG device that can accurately monitor both ischemia and arrhythmias at home exists. Hospitals and care providers are seeking new avenues to improve the quality of remote patient care, detect patient deterioration earlier, and reduce readmission rates. Technology that is easy to use and enables personalized hospital-quality remote monitoring, will become extremely important to the medical community.

2. Product & Service Concept

HealthWatch has developed the first bio-sensing platform, featuring 3D textile electrodes, which enables continuous 3-15L ECG remote monitoring. Through patented breakthroughs in textile technology, HealthWatch’s CE/FDA-Approved digital garments offer a balance of patient comfort and monitoring ability. ECG signals, respiratory abnormalities, sudden patient falls or lack of motion, are wirelessly dispatched to medical professionals in real-time. With these garments, wearers can stay protected without compromising freedom of movement.

3. Medical Significance

HealthWatch’s platform offers ICU quality 12/15L ECG, for diagnosing cardiac abnormalities, localizing their origin (beneficial especially for arrhythmias amenable to ablation), and identifying asymptomatic or intermittent events. Accurate actionable data enables early identification of severe conditions, and quicker response in case of emergency.

Our easy-to-use garments requires no skin preparation. Critical clinical time can be saved, as uniform ECG measurement is possible thanks to the foolproof repeatable electrode placement, making our garments ideal for homecare.

4. Target Markets

HealthWatch’s revolutionary patented textile technology targets health and medical applications for hospitals, cardiac rehabilitation centers, homecare facilitators, nursing homes, scientific and pharmaceutical research and any industry, where body function monitoring is important.

5. Team

HealthWatch is led by experienced professionals, including medical industry veterans, textile engineering experts and key opinion leaders. The people at HealthWatch are committed to the mission of connecting patients with caregivers in smarter ways.