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WATCH: Why Dr. Young said goodbye to manual blood pressure cuffs at his clinic
Dr. Mark Young of Apex Health Alliance talks about using VitalStream and how it improved the clinician and patient experience.
Read MoreThe Role of a Wireless Patient Monitoring System for At Home Care
Among the many benefits being brought to the healthcare service by wireless patient monitoring is the facility to escalate home care for both chronic and acute conditions. Physicians have long recognized the benefits of care at home but hospitals have been reluctant to send acute patients home because it would have impacted on their revenue…
Read MoreDigital healthcare: the future of modern medicine
As new variants of the COVID-19 virus continue to pile pressure on already strained health services around the world, what hope is there for the future of medicine? With an ageing global population and a growing shortage of medical professionals, how can the healthcare industry get on top of the burgeoning workload to create breathing…
Read MoreThe role of remote patient monitoring in chronic care
Wireless monitors like VitalStream™ can help to drive down the cost of chronic disease management and deliver better patient outcomes. Chronic disease management (CDM) is one of biggest challenges facing global health. Chronic conditions such as heart disease and diabetes are the leading cause of mortality in the developed world by far, and across the…
Read MoreVitalStream™ – Ushering in the wireless era of hemodynamic monitoring
Medical practitioners know that even a brief hypotensive event can harm a patient. This is why the ICU employs continuous hemodynamic monitoring to catch the earliest signs of such events and enable prompt intervention. However, studies have found that post-operative patients returning to the general ward are still at risk of acute hypotensive events leading…
Read MoreMedTech Innovator Announces Caretaker Medical among Finalists for $500K 9th Annual Industry Competition
MedTech Innovator, the largest accelerator of medical devices in the world, announced that Caretaker Medical have been selected among five finalists out of 1,100 applicants to compete for the title of MedTech Innovator 2021. “Every year I am more impressed by the caliber of companies that take part in our Accelerator and Showcase programs,” said…
Read MoreFDA Clears Caretaker Medical’s Wireless Platform for Continuous Noninvasive Blood Pressure and Hemodynamic Monitoring
We are excited to announce the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) clearance of the company’s next-generation VitalStream™ wireless blood pressure and hemodynamic monitoring platform.
Read MoreHow Continuous Patient Monitoring is maximizing the Benefit of IV Ketamine Therapy
There are currently around 400 ketamine infusion clinics in the US and rising at a rate of 30-40% per year. Such is the demand for intravenous ketamine treatment for severe depression, anxiety and chronic pain. Since the opioid epidemic, the use of analgesics and anesthetics to treat the rising cases of depression and anxiety has…
Read MoreCase Study: Celerion Provides Continuous Blood Pressure Monitoring for Pharma Client
Background Contract Research Organizations (CROs) like Celerion conduct drug research studies on behalf of pharmaceutical companies, using cohorts of healthy subjects, who are paid for their participation. A study can last for anything from one day to two months, sometimes longer, and during the trial, subjects’ vital signs are monitored. This can involve collections of…
Read MoreCaretaker’s Wireless “Beat-by-Beat” Continuous Blood Pressure monitor is highlighted in Springer’s new book
Caretaker’s Wireless “Beat-by-Beat” Continuous Blood Pressure monitor is highlighted in Springer’s new book, “The Handbook of Cuffless Blood Pressure Monitoring”, with an entire chapter devoted to our patented Pulse Decomposition Analysis technology . This practical guide for clinicians, researchers, and engineers outlines a history of blood pressure advances, and presents groundbreaking state-of-the-art technologies driving the…
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