July 22, 2024

Smartwatch health data enables collaborative dialogue between patients and caregivers.

Smartwatches and fitness trackers have become essential tools in the field of remote patient monitoring (RPM), and Garmin is at the forefront of this industry transformation. Packed with health and wellness features, Garmin smartwatches are easy to use and comfortable to wear, which encourages patient participation and adherence. Powered by the Garmin Health Connected Ecosystem, Garmin smartwatches can capture comprehensive patient data 24/7, enabling healthcare providers to identify patterns that help provide a holistic view of a patient’s health. The ability to continuously collect patient data enhances the granularity of this vital information to support personalized healthcare interventions, encourage collaboration and improve the patient’s healthcare journey.

Garmin Smartwatches Seamlessly Integrated for Enhanced Patient Care

Garmin Health is committed to seamless integration. Through the Standard SDK, Garmin smartwatches can be directly integrated into RPM applications, enabling access to health and fitness data and allowing configuration of device features to meet the program’s requirements. This allows smartwatches to become not only data sources but also play an essential role in the collaborative dialogue between patients and caregivers. The goal is an elevated standard of care, where insights from smartwatches empower healthcare providers to make informed decisions and patients to actively participate in their well-being.

The Garmin Health integration capabilities have already facilitated the development of exemplary solutions, offering a glimpse into the vast potential achievable with smartwatch technology:

Supporting Patient Care with Medixine’s Remote Monitoring Solution

What is the goal? In response to the global challenge of chronic conditions and illnesses, Medixine offers an RPM solution that aims to enhance patient outcomes while minimizing costs and recognizing the significant impact on individuals and society.

What is the solution? At the core of Medixine’s approach is the Medixine Suite, a user-friendly platform that seamlessly connects software with various measurement devices. This integration facilitates the smooth exchange of essential health data between patients and their healthcare professionals. Medixine Suite’s design supports the management of a range of diseases and conditions, utilizing diverse medical devices and wearables such as fitness trackers and smartwatches. This system has been adopted for RPM services in Europe and the United States, and operators include Linde and Roche Diagnostics.

How Garmin factors in: Garmin smartwatches and fitness trackers play a key role in capturing valuable activity and sleep data¹ from individuals managing chronic illnesses. This data helps empower healthcare professionals to better understand each patient’s health status. 

Future-ready Medical Care: Qurasoft’s SaniQ RPM Platform

What is the goal? Qurasoft aims to revolutionize healthcare by helping address challenges such as cost pressures, doctor shortages and demographic trends. Its RPM platform seeks to contribute innovative solutions to help enable future-ready medical care, particularly for chronic patients.

What is the solution? SaniQ, Qurasoft’s RPM platform, integrates a patient app, external measuring devices and web-based practice software. Using the SaniQ platform enables doctors and medical professionals to log vital signs in real time, communicate digitally (via chat and video consultation) and manage medication digitally. The telemonitoring solution aims to provide clinically relevant data to support informed medical care and potentially reduce in-person patient visits and procedures.

How Garmin factors in: Garmin smartwatches seamlessly integrate with SaniQ, allowing the devices to capture patients’ real-time vital signs from their homes. This data, including heart rate¹, step count, Pulse Ox (SpO2), heart rate variability (HRV) and respiration rate, is transmitted directly to the SaniQ platform, providing healthcare professionals with 24/7 insights. Collaborative success stories include Telementor COPD, a study focused on helping prevent exacerbation of COPD, a common lung disease.

Remote Patient Monitoring with vitalera

What is the goal? An innovative wearable-enabled solution from vitalera (formerly HumanITcare) and VitalAire Brazil aims to support early detection of health issues for long-term oxygen therapy patients.

What is the solution? Vitalera and VitalAire Brazil are using Garmin smartwatches and fitness trackers on the VitalSign project to continuously monitor patients while providing personalized care and treatment plans.

How Garmin factors in: The integration of Garmin technology into vitalera’s platform sets a new standard in personalized care. Explore details in the vitalera blog post here.