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We reported earlier this week that Houston, TX-based wireless cardiac monitoring startup, eCardio had monitored about 20,000 patients to date. Today, CardioNet, one of the first wireless cardiac companies to go to market has announced that it just passed 300,000…

Wireless remote monitoring for patients with heart conditions is fast becoming a crowded space for wireless health companies — CardioNet, the only pureplay wireless health company to have gone public and LifeWatch, a Switzerland-based company are just two of the…

Big news for the first startup shepherded by the West Wireless Health Institute: The FDA has greenlit Corventis’ Nuvant system, a mobile cardiac telemetry system. The 510(k) clearance for Nuvant enables Corventis to begin marketing the service in the U.S.…

While our year-end report is a solid snapshot of the state of the industry at the end of 2009, we noticed that a good number of our most popular news posts from the past year did not find their place…

FDA may regulate smartphone apps. LifeComm closes. Best Buy stocks connected health devices. Apple invites LifeScan on-stage. The West Wireless Health Institute is founded. CardioNet’s reimbursement rate cut. Consumers want wireless health. Three-quarters of Americans are interested.
2009 was a big…

CardioNet, a wireless remote cardiac monitoring company, has hired Lazard Freres & Co. of New York to evaluate its options, CEO Randy Thurman told investors on a call this morning. Analysts believe the move means CardioNet may seriously consider a…

Remote wireless cardiac monitoring company LifeWatch has announced a new offering for diagnosing sleep apnea: NiteWatch. The company expects to make the service commercially available during the first quarter of 2010.
Unlike its closest competitor, CardioNet, LifeWatch uses an actual…

The Wall Street Journal has an incendiary profile piece on the Jeffries analyst, Brian Kennedy, who predicted that Highmark CMS would cut its reimbursement rate for CardioNet’s wireless cardiac monitoring  service. CardioNet is the only public company fully focused on…

The magazine Start-up recently published an overview of the wireless health industry but wrote it as a wake up call for medical device makers. Here’s the paragraph that really boils down what’s been going on in wireless health:
“The wireless…

STMicroelectronics has inked a deal with Mayo Clinic to collaborate on a wireless remote monitoring system for patients with chronic cardiovascular diseases. An initial program of patient trials is already underway, according to the Mayo Clinic.
Details about the offering…