NY-NJ Hospitals to Use Smart Clothes in COVID-19 Telehealth Program
Hackensack Meridian Health and Maimonides Medical Center are launching a telehealth program that will use sensor-embedded undergarments to remotely monitor patients infected with the coronavirus.
- Several hospitals in New Jersey and New York will be using smart clothing in a telehealth program aimed at providing remote care for patients infected with or suspected of having the coronavirus.
The Hackensack Meridian Health Systems, a 17-hospital system based in Edison, NJ, and Brooklyn-based Maimonides Medical Center are partnering with Nanowear on the remote patient monitoring program, which will use sensor-embedded undergarments to track physiological and biomarker data in patients at the health systems.
The project is the latest in a string of RPM programs recently launched to track and manage COVID-19 cases, both in-patient and at home. Some are using mHealth wearables, while others use telemedicine platforms that either gather data or allow the patient to enter data. The technology allows caregivers to monitor multiple patients from other location, reducing the risk of infection.