A New Frontier for Medical Technology — An Ultrasound Patch
A New Frontier for Medical Technology — An Ultrasound Patch
Once medical assistance is called, the countdown for a patient to get the treatment they need begins. A key factor to this is accurately knowing their condition and symptoms, however, understanding a patient’s changing condition and monitoring how a patient will respond to the delivery of medication is clinically challenging.
Sudbury-based health technology company, Flosonics Medical has created a wearable technology, FloPatch, a wireless Doppler ultrasound probe that is placed over the carotid artery and provides continuous monitoring data to physicians, nurses and paramedics involved in the patients’ care, who can then determine their next steps.
Through a Voucher for Innovation and Productivity (VIP) project, Flosonics was able to collaborate with Toronto’s Sunnybrook Research Institute to work with a team of ultrasound engineers to further develop and test their prototype in a clinical setting.
Flosonics Medical was the 2019 OCE Mind to Market Award winner for outstanding research collaboration and commercialization.
“Monitoring changes in blood-flow is challenging, and our technology makes it push button simple to understand how the heart is changing on a beat to beat basis,” says Joe Eibl, Flosonics Co- founder and CEO. “This has the potential to help improve patient outcomes and provide clinicians with the information they need to make informed decisions.”
Now at 20 full time jobs, Flosonics is investing in manufacturing and performing clinical studies to bring their FloPatch technology to patients and physicians in the future.
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