Passive Health Monitoring: Collecting Patient Data at Home

<h2><strong>Introduction</strong></h2><p>We welcome Nicholas Conn from <a href="https://hearthealthintelligence.com/">Heart Health Intelligence</a> and Jean-Phillippe Couderc from <a href="https://www.vpgmedical.com/how-does-it-work">VPG Medical</a> as he joins Trial Better to discuss passive health monitoring and the smart toilet seat.</p><h2><strong>What is the Heart Seat and what does it do? </strong></h2><p>The Heart Seat is a cardiovascular monitoring system integrated into a toilet seat. This allows you to monitor a comprehensive set of measurements in the home without requiring patients to change their behavior at all. The Heart Seat automatically starts downloading data when the user sits down; that data is then uploaded to the cloud. It can measure over nine clinically relevant cardiac parameters including blood pressure and cardiac output.</p><h2><strong>What is the user experience of the Heart Seat like?</strong></h2><p>The seat has the same standard hinge mounting as a regu...