Smart medical devices for patients

Smart medical devices for patients

 

Cue
IoT Advantage: self-diagnosis
Benefit: Enables preventive care
Cue’s multi-use wand and corresponding cartridge increase the ways that patients can track their own health. With this smart medical device, patients can take their health into their own hands—testing their nasal fluids, saliva and blood.

Quell
IoT Advantage: pain relief
Benefit: Improves quality of care
Quell Relief is worn below the knee like any brace—but its embedded sensors make this device unique. Quell Relief’s embedded technology is two-fold: it automatically adjusts stimulation intensity depending on patients’ activity level, and communicates collected data to a companion app. Both patients and their providers can then use the app to keep track of patients’ progress.

Swaive
IoT Advantage: self-monitoring
Benefit: Enables preventive care
The Swaive Thermometer is an ear thermometer that communicates with a mobile app, wirelessly transmitting temperature data to a tablet or computer. For immediate medical attention, it can send the patient health information it collects directly to physicians.

MobileODT
IoT Advantage: self-monitoring
Benefit: Reduces cost of care
Israel-based MobileODT offers an $1,800 cervical cancer screening tool that connects mobile colposcopes to cell phones, allowing clinicians to quickly take a cervical image that can also be sent out for a second opinion. Their technology, which was trialled with Penn Medicine and Scripps Research Institute, is being used in developing countries that can’t afford a traditional $15,000 colposcope. It will be sold in the US once the company obtains FDA approval.