Health and Fitness

Withings Sleep Rx Mat receives FDA 510(ok) clearance

Related well being know-how firm Withings introduced it has acquired FDA 510(ok) clearance for its Sleep Rx Mat, a noninvasive, contactless system designed to diagnose sleep apnea at house.

Among the many Sleep Rx Mat options, a pneumatic sensor measures respiratory price, physique motion and steady coronary heart price, together with sleep cycles, length and interruptions, whereas sound and movement sensors detect loud night breathing and respiratory disturbances.

“We’re thrilled to convey Sleep Rx to the U.S. market,” Antoine Robiliard, vp of Withings Well being Options, stated in a press release.

“Enabling earlier and extra exact analysis, Sleep Rx creates a brand new sleep apnea analysis and administration paradigm. We all know {that a} one-night evaluation just isn’t ample.”

THE LARGER TREND

In 2023, Withings launched U-Scan, a biomarker-assessment platform that may be positioned inside a rest room bowl to watch a person’s well being utilizing urine evaluation. The U-Scan reader comes with changeable evaluation cartridges that analyzes an individual’s urine for particular biomarkers and sends insights to the Withings Well being Mate app every day.

In 2022, Medable partnered with Withing to make use of the corporate’s related units for decentralized medical trials. The alliance allowed Withings’ instruments for distant monitoring, like related scales, blood strain screens and sleep-tracking mats to gather affected person knowledge and combine with Medable’s medical trial platform. 

That very same yr, Withings unveiled a distant patient-monitoring program referred to as Withings RPM, which makes use of the corporate’s related units, corresponding to scales, watches, thermometers and blood strain cuffs to watch affected person metrics, together with coronary heart price, exercise, blood strain and sleep patterns.

Youngsters’s Nationwide Hospital, Texas Tech College Well being Sciences Heart, Arcare and AbleTo are services working towards high quality telemedicine and delivering care to underserved populations, says Dr. Shawn Griffin, president and CEO at URAC.

Youngsters’s Nationwide Hospital, Texas Tech College Well being Sciences Heart, Arcare and AbleTo are services working towards high quality telemedicine and delivering care to underserved populations, says Dr. Shawn Griffin, president and CEO at URAC.