Jennifer Jolly
Special to USA TODAY
Good news, I have a heart. Bad news, it’s beating faster than it should. I know this for two reasons: I can feel it take a battering ram to my ribcage and the new OptiBP smartphone app just told me so.
Swiss startup Biospectal unveiled the beta version of its app at CES last week. The company sent me an Android phone preloaded with the app along with an Omron blood pressure cuff to try it out. Before you take your first reading, you need to calibrate the app with a traditional cuff. Then, you live your life.
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Scientific Reports in Nature publishes first large-scale clinical study that validates Biospectal s OptiBP smartphone app generates highly accurate blood pressure measurements
SAN FRANCISCO and LAUSANNE, Switzerland (PRWEB) December 23, 2020
Biospectal, the remote patient monitoring and biosensing software company, today announced the publication of the first, large-scale, third-party clinical research study published by Scientific Reports in Nature, which validates the ability of Biospectal s OptiBP™ smartphone app to accurately measure blood pressure utilizing transdermal optical sensing with only a fingertip applied to a smartphone camera lens. The study, conducted in the hypertensive unit of the CHUV hospital at the University Lausanne in Switzerland, showed reference data captured simultaneously with a phone recording blood flow via a smartphone camera on the patient fingertip.