Zionsville Med Tech Company Hits the Market with Monitoring Device
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As a subscriber you can listen to articles at work, in the car, or while you work out. Subscribe NowZionsville based medical technology company VoCare Inc. says after 10 years of development, it has secured authorization from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for its mobile, medical monitoring device. Vitals 360 is a cellphone-size device that measures six critical health indicators. The patented device sends the data to a patient’s physician in real time.
“I think it’s a billion-dollar company waiting to happen,” said VoCare Chief Executive Officer Dr. Ben Park. in an interview on Inside INdiana Business with Gerry Dick.
The company says it is now taking orders for the technology and the first batch of 5,000 units will be manufactured over the next several weeks.
“I think it’s going to be adopted by the remote patient monitoring companies and telehealth companies that are already in this space, but don’t have a purpose-built device,” explained Park. “We fill that niche for them.”
Park, who most recently served as CEO of American Health Network, explained how the explosion of telehealth during the pandemic has revealed the need for the device.
“We were doing about 500 telehealth visits a month, and along came the pandemic and we went from 500 a month to 1500 a day,” said Park. “One of the issues that we had is that people had a difficult time using available telehealth products because they didn’t have smartphones necessarily. And we didn’t have a reliable set of vital signs of blood pressure, pulse and those kinds of things.”
Park believes Vitals360 will improve the ability for physicians to monitor patients with multiple chronic illnesses. It will allow healthcare providers to get an early warning of deteriorating health conditions.