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New smartphone does medical tests
Introducing LifeWatch V, an Israeli-engineered phone that performs and
analyzes a range of self-tests and sends reports to your doctor.
(By Avigayil Kadesh)
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The LifeWatch phone can test your ECG, as well as blood pressure and sugar
levels.
The Israeli company LifeWatch Technologies
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unique smartphone that not only makes calls but can perform and analyze a
whole range of medical tests and send a report of the results to users and
their physicians.
CEO Dr. Yacov Geva says the Android-based LifeWatch V will be especially
useful to help manage many aspects of a chronic medical condition such as
diabetes. Blood glucose test strips can be inserted right into a portal on
the phone’s stainless-steel frame and it can send reminders to check glucose
levels and take insulin.
The smartphone’s embedded sensors also let you check your blood oxygen
saturation level, perform an at-home electrocardiogram (ECG) or measure your
blood pressure with an attached sleeve. You can use its pedometer to keep
track of your daily footsteps and its thermometer to take your temperature.
It helps you figure out your body fat percentage, plan your diet and log
your workouts.
LifeWatch V sends all the test data automatically and securely to a remote
server in the cloud for analysis by the company’s proprietary algorithms.
Results and trend data are quickly shared with the user and, if desired,
with a third party via email or text message.
An idea whose time has come
The Rehovot-based company expects to launch European and Israeli sales
sometime in May 2013, and in the United States by the end of the year,
following expected clearance from the US Food and Drug Administration.
TechFaith Wireless Communication Technology of China will manufacture the
smartphones based on the Israeli specs and industrial design. Interface is
to be available in Hebrew, English, Portuguese, Spanish, Italian, Russian,
Chinese and Japanese.
“We will sell the device for between $500 and $700, depending on the country
and individual carrier agreement,” says Geva.
He conceived of the idea back in the age of Palm Pilots. His original
patents for the embedded sensors date back to 1998, and additional
development work was done in 2001 and 2006. However, only recently has the
technology gotten “friendly” enough to make the product viable.
“The real breakthrough came when Apple changed how a smartphone could be
used, so we were able to take our initiative forward and develop the product
based on an Android operating system,” says Geva, who adds that LifeWatch
came into this project with more than 20 years of experience developing 45
different types of medical sensors.
The company designed LifeWatch V for ease of use, whether the user is six or
86 years old. One of the prime markets will be children with diabetes.
“Parents can follow their children to see if they’re doing daily testing and
taking their insulin while they’re at school,” Geva explains. “Let’s say a
child has to do a blood glucose test at 9 am. When he does the test, the
data is sent automatically to the cloud and the parents can get the results
immediately, on any kind of device. If the parent does not see that the test
was done, the parent can call to remind the child.”
Mobile healthcare is the watchword
LifeWatch was founded about two decades ago as a subsidiary of LifeWatch AG,
a leading Swiss healthcare technology and solutions provider, to develop
ambulatory diagnostic testing.
There are 65 employees at its R&D center in Rehovot’s Rabin Science Park,
and almost 500 people staff LifeWatch’s three emergency call centers in the
United States. The public company offers a range of patient technologies and
services, such as home-based heart monitoring and home sleep testing, in
addition to wireless monitoring devices for emergency medical personnel.
“More than 300,000 new patients every year in the US are being monitored
through LifeWatch,” Geva says.
American owners of the medical smartphone will be able to have the test
results sent directly to one of those emergency call centers, and Israeli
users will have one of their own soon, says Geva.
Already looking to the future, he reveals that the next-generation LifeWatch
smartphone will have additional sensors incorporated for even more
functionality. But the soon-to-launch model already represents a historic
first in mobile healthcare. And if its built-in capabilities do not meet an
individual user’s specific needs, Geva says it’s possible to download any
other appropriate apps to the device.
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