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DeviceLab and Nouslogic Sign Strategic Partnership to Accelerate the Development of Next Gen Wireless Medical Devices

Who is DeviceLab?

Founded more than twenty years ago by visionary Medical Device Innovator Doc Vu, DeviceLab has been at the center of the Digital Health revolution. The full-service design and development firm has a well-established history of success in wearables and wireless devices, diagnostic devices, lasers, and LEDs.

With a large number of wireless standards and low-power IoT sensors supported, once integrated, your customized device offers a plug-and-play solution for patients & clinicians right out of the box.” Hoang Nhu technologies and patient monitoring and imaging systems. “We truly pride ourselves in developing safe, efficacious, engaging interfaces between the technology and the patient, as well as the clinician,” commented Doc Vu. “This insight into the device part of the wireless and home health equation is critical for adoption, patient engagement, and success.”

Who is Nouslogic Telehealth?

Nouslogic Telehealth was founded in 2013 by Hoang Nhu, a veteran senior engineering executive with companies such as Broadcom and Hewlett Packard. Nouslogic Telehealth is a pioneer in wireless Remote Monitoring technologies, ushering in the Smart Home Health Hub, featuring the security and compliance medical device companies require.

Mr. Nhu states, “After more than a decade of developing and perfecting our technologies, we’ve been endorsed by major tech companies such as Verizon, Google, Silicon Labs, LG, and Nordic Semiconductor. It’s exciting and rewarding to see our solution being adopted in the home health market, generating Medicare-reimbursed revenues for our partners since 2019. This is truly a patient-centric, win-win technology that enables the elderly to age in place in a safe, healthy, and familiar environment.”

The State of Global Digital Health and Remote Patient Monitoring

The global Digital Health (Connected Health) and Remote Patient Monitoring market was reported to be worth $223 billion in 2022. The market is projected to approach a breathtaking $1 trillion in annual economic activity by 2032.

“We see this as an enabling technology, not only for established device companies expanding into wireless but for startup device companies as well. We envision the DeviceLab Embedded Gateway Bundle accelerating startup wireless and wearable companies’ ability to demonstrate Proof of Concept to their prospective investors early and for relatively short dollars,” added Mr. Vu. “Being able to demonstrate this level of functionality, interoperability, security, and compliance has become especially important in today’s more competitive equity investor markets.”

“Integrating your device into our embedded gateway and technology stack saves a minimum of six months of development time, particularly in wireless firmware & server/cloud services and apps development,” added Mr. Nhu. “Once your device is integrated into the platform, it’s truly plug and play, right out of the box, for patients, clinicians, and caregivers. Consumers expect this level of ease of operation, and we’re delighted to deliver to them, whether your application is in Aging-in-place, remote patient/therapeutic monitoring, or the emerging HaH: hospital at home services.”

The companies combined, integrated technology also provides the framework and operational infrastructure for emerging applications in smart data analytics, Artificial Intelligence, and machine learning.

Learn More from Terry Murray, VP of Business Development at DeviceLab

For more information, please contact Terry Murray, Vice President of Business Development.
Terrance Murray
DeviceLab
terrymurray@devicelab.com

This press release can be viewed online at: https://www.einpresswire.com/article/632455803

How is Wireless Technology Applied to Medical Devices?

Smart Sensor Technology

Smart sensors are a type of sensor that wirelessly transmits data about their surroundings to a nearby electronic device. This technology is often used in medical device development, as it can help doctors and nurses remotely monitor patients’ vital signs and track their progress. A patient at the hospital might wear a smart patch on her wrist or ankle, which tracks her heart rate, blood pressure, and respiratory rate. If any of these values were to rise above or below the normal range, she would be alerted, and the nurse could then call the doctor for advice or go directly to the patient’s room if necessary.

Wearable Devices

Wireless technology has allowed patients to wear their medical devices, such as heart monitors and blood pressure cuffs, instead of being tethered to them. This gives patients more freedom and allows doctors and nurses to remotely monitor their patient’s vital signs.

In addition, wireless technology has also made it possible for medical devices to communicate with each other. For example, a patient’s blood pressure cuff could wirelessly send data to their glucose monitor, which would adjust the insulin pump accordingly.

Smart Tags

With smart tags, doctors can retrieve information about a patient by just tapping the smart card. The card would have the patient’s medical information, including allergies, medications, and past procedures. This would allow for a quicker and more efficient doctor’s visit. If there are no problems with the patient or their records, this process could help save time in a hospital environment where time can often mean life or death. In an emergency, when seconds count, every second counts.

Connected Implants

Medical implants are becoming increasingly common, as they provide a wide range of patient benefits. One of the types of implants is the connected implant, which uses wireless technology to connect to other devices. The most popular example of this type of implant is the pacemaker, which can be synced with an external device to regulate the heart rate. Other examples include smart sensors to monitor glucose levels. With these devices, data can be shared with your doctor without requiring additional physical contact between you and your doctor.

Wireless Medical Equipment

The advancement of wireless technologies has revolutionized the way we think about and use medical equipment. No longer are patients tethered to a machine by cords and wires. Instead, they can move around freely while still receiving the necessary treatment. Moreover, doctors and nurses can see their progress in real-time with just a glance at the screen – no need for additional visits!

Remote Monitoring

Wireless technology can be used to monitor patients remotely. This is especially useful for patients with chronic conditions who must be closely monitored. For example, heart failure patients can have their vital signs monitored wirelessly from home. This way, they can avoid coming into the hospital for routine checkups and only come in when there is an emergency.

Location Tracking

One way wireless technology is used in medical devices is for location tracking. This can be helpful for patients who wander off or track hospital equipment. Wireless signals are transmitted and tracked using global positioning system (GPS) technology, which uses satellites orbiting the earth to pinpoint locations on the surface of the planet. It is also possible to track people without GPS through Bluetooth signals, a low-power type of radio frequency energy with a range of about 30 feet.

Internet of Things

The internet of things, also known as the IoT, is the interconnectedness of material entities and devices that can collect and exchange data. This data can improve efficiency, safety, and quality of life. For example, a pacemaker equipped with a sensor could automatically detect when it needs to recharge itself and send an alert to its user. This connectivity allows objects to work together to solve problems more efficiently or complete tasks that would have been impossible otherwise.

Conclusion

In conclusion, wireless technology is increasingly important in the medical field. This technology is making a difference from improving patient care to reducing costs. The latest medical device development allows for an improved and more accurate condition diagnosis. Medical device developers are constantly seeking ways to improve patients’ health while also streamlining the process and cutting down on costs. Medical devices that monitor vital signs or deliver drugs without needles are being developed, and others that will assist with surgeries and other medical procedures. It’s an exciting time to see how much future medical device development continues to improve in our lifetime.

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Wearable Medical Devices vs. mHealth vs. Healthcare IoT: Sorting Out What to Call These Technologies

Using SEO Keyword Analysis to Find the “Best” Description of These Emerging Medical Device Design & Development Segments

For the past few years, we’ve been writing about medical devices as they relate to the Internet of Things, which, of course, is also known as an acronym: IoT. Likewise, during that time, we also written about mHealth devices, wearable medical devices, wireless medical devices and so forth.

To be perfectly honest, we’ve never been entirely certain about the best catch-all term for these technologies. This isn’t just for our own internal communications; we’ve been seeking a single term that both makes it easier for people to find us online (e.g., the “Wireless Medical Device Center” section of our Website), but also for us to find related news, blogs and other information from news sources and thought leaders. And as if there weren’t already many combinations and long-tailed keywords from which to choose, we recently discovered a new one: IoMT (Internet of Medical Things)!

But let’s be clear about one thing: We do know the differences between the technologies—for example, a medical IoT device versus an mHealth device, or a wearable medical device versus a wireless medical device. But what we know and believe are not necessarily the same thing as what the online community thinks about them, an important concept for everybody involved—from medical device design and development companies like us that make them to the companies that distribute and sell them to the consumers and businesses that buy them.

As mentioned, our “Wireless Medical Device Center” section uses the term wireless medical device because when we created it a few years ago, that term seemed to be the best choice—both for what keyword research told us and from what we hear from others in our industry. However, two comments about that:

Technology is constantly and rapidly changing. What was a “new” technology a few years ago (or even a few months ago) can likely be considered commonplace, outdated or even obsolete today.

The Internet is constantly and rapidly changing. This is particularly true for how people use the Internet to find information, services and products—which has a dynamic influence in how technologies are used, perceived and innovated.

And let’s be clear: We’re not naive or inexperienced in Internet marketing (or online marketing or digital marketing or inbound marketing…yet another concept that has multiple terms for essentially the same thing!). In fact, we work closely with Internet marketing consultants that are experts in this arena.

That why we recently asked them to use their SEO keyword research tools to perhaps discover the way that people are actually searching online for these technologies. In particular, we wanted to see some numbers that illustrated how medical devices searches were being conducted as they related to any combination of the following:

IoT vs. Internet of Things (and variables we’ve seen, like MIoT)
Wearable vs. Wireless
Healthcare vs. Medical

Any type of metric analysis can get overwhelming and confusing quickly, and this exploration was certainly no exception. However, we think we found a winning choice, and here is how we reached our conclusion.

The Winner is Definitely Not “Wireless Medical Device”

Much to our chagrin, our currently used “wireless medical device” not only was among the poorest performing keywords, but it was the only legitimate result that used the word “wireless.” Needless to say, we will be soon revising our Website content!

And the Winner is…“IoT Devices”?

In terms of pure search volume (9900 monthly searches), IoT devices is unquestionably the word for which people are searching for this technology.

However, there is a huge flaw: It includes all IoT devices, which, of course, includes various market segments aside from medical and healthcare.

So the Winner is…“mHealth”?

So, then perhaps the winner is mHealth, which, with 3538 monthly searches, significantly trailed IoT devices by 22 percent. However, an argument could be made because it explicitly includes the medical/healthcare audience, it is a more relevant term, and therefore, more accurate for our purposes.

But again, there is a flaw: It doesn’t include the word “device” or anything to indicate the search isn’t simply to learn about mHealth as the concept of using mobile technology in a medical or healthcare context. Further, we’ve been examining the possibility that “mHealth” devices tend to be more for retail consumers, rather than for the hospital and clinical settings for which our medical devices are more geared towards.

OK, the Winner is…“Wearable Medical Devices”!

Using the current logic to identify and eliminate IoT Devices and mHealth, we are now confident that wearable medical devices is a winner, especially when closely compared to results that included IoT or Internet of Things.

Although the 210 monthly searches for wearable medical devices paled those of the other words, it:

Is relevant. The term cannot be confused with non-medical or non-healthcare products.
Is capable of higher search volumes. Similar and interchangeable words like wearable medical device and wearable health devices add up to 2227 monthly searches—which still keeps it behind IoT devices (9900) and mHealth (3538)—make this a great word for the skilled SEO content creators we have.

And the Runner Up is “Healthcare IoT”

As mentioned earlier, the monthly search volumes for IoT devices is very high—and when searches include the world “wearable,” it generates monthly volumes of 2167, which is almost as good as the “winner” wearable medical devices. However, for keywords that include the very important word “device,” monthly search volumes dwindle to 320.

But, as mentioned earlier, there are differences between healthcare/medical IoT and wearable devices, and therefore, we will need to continue to monitor both the search volumes and real-world applications of these terms. We’ll let you know when we discover some new breakthroughs!

DeviceLab is an ISO-13485 certified medical device development company that has completed more than 100 medical device design projects of varying complexity—including medical device software development and wireless medical device design services for the newest breeds of medical IoT, mHealth and medical wearables.