MedTech Breakthrough recognises excellence in the digital health and medical technology space. In this year’s category called “Best Biometric Sensor Solution”, mSafety rose above the competition and took home first prize. Here’s what you need to know about the award and what made mSafety stand out. 

Sony Network Communication Europe’s partner General Prognostics (GPx) is on a mission to make blood test information more accessible than ever by combining the power of algorithms with digital biomarkers. They are using mSafety to make it happen. Here’s the GPx story – and how mSafety is supporting the development of their life-saving service. 

João Bocas, a leading expert in digital health and wearables, interviewed Head of the Health Solution Division Anders Strömberg and Senior Product Manager Jessica Tennhammar, from the mSafety team. The topic of discussion: the future of wearables in healthcare.

Innovation has traditionally been considered difficult within pharma, MedTech and healthcare. Today it is different, writes Anders Strömberg, Head of the Health Solution Division. In this article, Anders shares his thoughts on the state of digital health and describes the unique opportunity for healthcare businesses today.

Personal health data can transform health care. We expect more resilient health systems, more control over our personal health information and high-quality data for clinical trials and public health research. Recent initiatives have taken steps to shape this future. Importantly, they put privacy in focus.

The COVID-pandemic has had a significant impact on healthcare systems and patients around the world. Not least chronic condition patients, who already face numerous challenges in their daily lives. In 2020, the mSafety team conducted a survey on attitudes towards specialised remote health monitoring devices. Now, a second survey follows up on those results in 2022. What has changed over these two impactful years regarding remote health monitoring and telehealth?

As a provider of remote monitoring services on wearable devices, you need to keep track of your whole fleet and ensure its firmware is always up to date. To make device management and software updates as easy and straightforward as possible, Sony’s mSafety platform provides firmware-over-the-air (FOTA). Find out more about the value of FOTA in mSafety here.

Clinical trials have long been plagued by low participation, poor compliance and high drop-out rates. Even when volunteers sign up, they don’t always manage to take the medication as prescribed, attend regular appointments or report accurately on their health status. Here, we highlight the main causes of non-compliance and describe how mSafety, Sony’s remote monitoring platform, helps you resolve them.

On December 3rd, 2020, mSafety’s Arnol Rios (Head of Sales & Business Development, Takeoff Point, a Sony company) gave a presentation for WT | Wearable Technologies Studio on the topic: ‘What makes Sony’s mSafety solution unique?’ We’ve summarised the main points from Arnol’s presentation here and included a link to the video for you to watch.

Sony’s mSafety solution enables clinical and pharmaceutical researchers to create customised applications for trial protocols and monitor participants remotely. This easy-to-use connected wearable and reliable back-end solution ensure seamless bi-directional data flows – making mSafety a powerful tool for monitoring compliance and verification of participants’ responses to treatment.

A recent report from WORKTECH Academy highlights how organisations are looking to digital solutions to make the return to the office safe and flexible. As the academy’s newest member, Sony has been planning for the future-of-work in its digital solutions for several years now. The pandemic has launched us into that future faster than expected, and the Nimway solution is ready to meet it.

Chronic conditions cost the U.S. healthcare system $3.1 trillion dollars in 2019, and the burden of ongoing treatment and compliance impacts patients and providers alike. A recent mSafety study shows that U.S. consumers would be interested in using more remote health monitoring devices. Find out what else we learnt from our survey.

COVID-19 is making health providers think differently about the use of remote monitoring services. It is challenging the idea that such services are only relevant for the elderly or those living with chronic conditions. And it is shining a light on the need for early detection – not only for use in triage by healthcare providers, but also to avoid further spreading of the virus.

The main purpose of the new SafeTrx application with mSafety wearable from Sony is to help locate and rescue water sports enthusiasts who run into trouble at sea. We tested it with groups of professional and amateur volunteers in Norway and The Netherlands to find out just how much salt water and bad weather it can handle.  

Many once-fatal conditions can now be successfully managed. That’s obviously good news. The only downside is that an increasingly large number of people now require continuous health monitoring, which is expensive for healthcare providers. To manage this situation, the healthcare segment is moving towards a more proactive approach.