Scan Magazine | Mini Theme | Finland’s Health and Wellness Start-ups 2018
Revolutionising self-monitoring through new certified software After working as an emergency doctor for over 20 years, founder of Finnish company Heart2Save, Helena Jäntti, realised that there should be a better way of diagnosing symptomless arrhythmia, thus preventing potentially fatal strokes.
most wearables provide, to a more useful ‘need to know’ approach – and over the past few years, they have worked hard to make this happen.
By Line Elise Svanevik | Photo: dreamstime.com
These days, many people are using self-monitoring devices such as smart watches and other wearables to monitor heart rate and stress levels. By using the data accumulated through this technology as a source for diagnostics and prevention of illnesses, Heart2Save aims to save lives. “Our clinical research confirms that the accuracy of wearable data is close enough to the medical devices used in hospitals,” says Jäntti. “Heart2Save has developed a diagnostic service – DaaS – where we can take data from current wearables and analyse it in our cloud service. Arrhythmia is a major cause of 70 | Issue 107 | December 2017
stroke, and by detecting it early enough we can prevent stroke – or even death.” Working with a team of in-house expert developers, Heart2Save is committed to stroke prevention via their diagnostic service. Jäntti explains that the service they provide is incredibly easy to use, as most people already have the required technology at home. “If you use the wearables differently, you can detect your own arrhythmia and thereby prevent a serious medical condition,” she says. “That’s the angle of our service.”
With ten medical doctors and biomedical engineers on board, the team is keen to highlight that, from a scientific perspective, the future will see wearables used as medical devices. “But it needs software to be able to do this – which is exactly what we’ve created,” Jäntti adds. The company is currently collaborating with key players to be revealed in the coming months, so keep your eyes peeled for more information.
From nice to know to need to know Heart2Save aims to make a switch in the ‘it would be nice to know’ approach that
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