Report from Europe: CE mark for new generation of Home Monitoring system.

Report from Europe: CE mark for new generation of Home Monitoring system

A Medical Device Daily Staff Report

Biotronik (Berlin), a pioneer in wireless remote monitoring technology for patients with cardiac devices, reported receipt of CE-mark approval of the newest generation of Biotronik Home Monitoring, which the company terms "the most advanced remote monitoring technology of its kind."

Using an intelligent "traffic light" system, Biotronik Home Monitoring quickly and easily identifies patients with the most clinically relevant events to streamline clinic workflow and improve patient care.

Biotronik was first to develop and introduce u somewhat more than seven years ago u an Internet-based remote monitoring system using the GSM telephone network and said it is the only cardiac device manufacturer to make this technology available across its entire product portfolio of pacemakers, implantable cardioverter-defibrillators (ICD) and cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) devices.

That allows physicians to remotely monitor their patients' clinical and device status from anywhere in the world. The company said Biotronik Home Monitoring is "the only system available on the market that enables remote device follow-up at any time."

It said Biotronik Home Monitoring "has integrated a traffic-light, severity-based display of patients' status to easily identify the most important information with just one click, allowing physicians to quickly review the clinical status of patients at a glance."