NE Device SW and MedicubeX team up to enhance autonomous health assess­ment

NE Device SW, an inno­v­a­tive med­ical device com­pa­ny from Oulu and MedicubeX, the sup­pli­er of self-assess­ment booths have announced an exclu­sive com­mer­cial agree­ment. The agree­ment enables health providers across Europe, com­mis­sion­ing MedicubeX eHealth Sta­tions, to obtain res­pi­ra­to­ry rate mea­sure­ments from vis­i­tors per­form­ing a health assess­ment using Vita­cam. This will make it the first self-mea­sure­ment kiosk to offer res­pi­ra­to­ry rate mea­sure­ments and the first to take advan­tage of an in-built cam­era to obtain vital phys­i­o­log­i­cal mea­sure­ments. 

NE Device SW has devel­oped Vita­cam, soft­ware that uses com­put­er vision to mea­sure vital para­me­ters auto­mat­i­cal­ly from a live video of a patient. The new fea­ture will be avail­able in new MedicubeX eHealth Sta­tions and to cur­rent users fol­low­ing a soft­ware update.

Res­pi­ra­to­ry rate is well estab­lished as a mark­er and an ear­ly indi­ca­tor of acute dis­ease. It is use­ful, for exam­ple, in assess­ing the prog­no­sis of pneu­mo­nia, acute bronchial asth­ma, pul­monary embolism, and heart fail­ure. Vita­cam mea­sures res­pi­ra­to­ry rate by observ­ing chest move­ments in real time from a live video.

MedicubeX is active across Europe and has signed con­tracts in the Nether­lands, Ger­many, Latvia and its home mar­ket Fin­land. The com­pa­ny aims to pre­vent car­dio­vas­cu­lar dis­eases and to reduce pres­sure on nurs­es and clin­i­cians by automat­ing rou­tine tasks in health­care.

Moy­een Ahmad, NE Device SW and Vita­cam CEO, said, “Res­pi­ra­to­ry rate is one of the most over-looked vital signs and typ­i­cal­ly requires a trained nurse or clin­i­cian to assess it. With appro­pri­ate inter­ven­tions, time­ly and accu­rate res­pi­ra­to­ry rate mea­sure­ments can vast­ly improve patient out­comes. We are delight­ed to sup­port MedicubeX in pro­vid­ing the most com­pre­hen­sive set of mea­sure­ments in a self-mea­sure­ment sta­tion.” 

Vili Kosta­mo MD, MedicubeX CEO added, “We are excit­ed to be part­ner­ing with NE Device SW. Mea­sur­ing res­pi­ra­to­ry rate with Vita­cam enables us to pro­vide a more com­plete set of results to sup­port the diag­nos­tics of pul­monary dis­ease and assess­ing the sever­i­ty of acute health prob­lems. We look for­ward to a pro­duc­tive and mutu­al­ly ben­e­fi­cial rela­tion­ship.”

Under the agree­ment, Vita­cam will be avail­able in self-mea­sure­ment sta­tions, only pro­vid­ed by MedicubeX. The finan­cial terms of the agree­ment were not dis­closed. 

NE Device SW Oy is a soft­ware com­pa­ny from Oulu, Fin­land. Its flag­ship prod­uct ‘Vita­cam’ uses com­put­er vision to obtain vital signs mea­sure­ments. It sup­ports patients and health­care pro­fes­sion­als by automat­ing the rou­tine task of gath­er­ing obser­va­tions. ‘Vita­cam’ is a CE-marked class IIa med­ical device.

MedicubeX is one of the fastest grow­ing HealthTech star­tups in Europe and one of the lead­ing sup­pli­ers of self-mea­sure­ment solu­tions in Europe, head­quar­tered in Helsin­ki, Fin­land.

Con­tact per­son

Moy­een Ahmad

CEO, NE Device SW and Vita­cam
moyeen.ahmad@nedevicesw.com 

Source: NE Device SW (text and image)