Tag: Diagnostic Devices
Withings gets clearance for home sleep screening device
September 10, 2024HME News Staff
BOSTON – Withings has announced that its Sleep Rx Mat has received clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, marking a new era in sleep diagnosis and paving the way to better health outcomes for millions of adults in the United States, the company says. Sleep Rx is an advanced sleep device clinically validated for use in the home screening of adults with suspected sleep breathing disorders as an aid for diagnosis for OSA, sleep analysis and heart rate estimation. The mat requires...
New Apple Watch has sleep apnea feature
September 10, 2024HME News Staff
CUPERTINO, Calif. – Apple on Sept. 9 unveiled Apple Watch Series 10, which among other things, features a new sleep apnea feature.
Building on the intelligent health features already available to track key overnight metrics such as heart rate, respiratory rate and wrist temperature, the watch’s new sleep apnea feature can help identify signs of sleep apnea, the company says, by using the accelerometer to monitor small movements at the wrist that are associated with interruptions...
Briefs: Kay's key to success
September 30, 2009HME News Staff
Kay's key to success
PLAINVIEW, N.Y. - Fastrack Healthcare Systems has unveiled a suite of new products with one goal in mind: to help HME providers improve productivity and do more with less, said President Spencer Kay. "It is not going to be easy to control the prices that providers can charge, but they can control operating costs," he said. "One way to do that is to keep down the number of people you need to hire and to make existing employees more productive." To that end, the new offerings...