Deans' stroke musings: Smart clothing maker Nanowear collects FDA AI clearance for cuffless blood pressure monitoring

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Wednesday, January 10, 2024

Smart clothing maker Nanowear collects FDA AI clearance for cuffless blood pressure monitoring

How long before your competent? doctor gets this prescribed for you?

Smart clothing maker Nanowear collects FDA AI clearance for cuffless blood pressure monitoring

The maker of a wearable garment for tracking heart rate, breathing and physical activity has obtained an FDA clearance for artificial intelligence-powered software that enables continuous monitoring of blood pressure without an inflatable cuff.

Fit snugly across a person’s chest, Nanowear’s SimpleSense wearable is built with cloth-based sensor technology to provide medical-grade remote vital sign tracking, including ECG data and heart sounds.

The new 510(k) green light—marking the company’s fourth—for the SimpleSense-BP program aims to support the at-home diagnosis of hypertension, as well as within healthcare facilities or clinical studies. Everyday settings can lead to more accurate readings than under the examination of a physician, where anxiety may raise blood pressure levels while calm, controlled breathing may lower them.

FDA clears LiveMetric's smartwatch-like, cuffless blood pressure sensor

Nanowear SimpleSense — The sash-like SimpleSense undergarment is also being developed for tracking COPD and sleep apnea. (Nanowear)

“This FDA clearance represents an exciting and differentiating moment for Nanowear,” co-founder and CEO Venk Varadan said in a statement. “Accelerated by the pandemic, the market has been eagerly searching for reliable, clinical-grade wearable, and data service solutions that find product market fit with the following three attributes: at-home, utilizing AI, and a proven team that executes.”

According to the company, SimpleSense-BP has been validated to log changes of more than 15 mmHg systolic and 10 mmHg diastolic blood pressures over a continuous recording period.