RTX Healthcare to launch new telehealth monitor

Danish telecare specialist RTX Healthcare will launch a new wireless telehealth monitor, the RTX3370 Telehealth Monitor, which RTX said is able to operate with any clinical information system.

RTX reported that the system is designed to ask users a series of questions and measure vital signs, which will provide patients with a daily visual or audio questionnaire to monitor health. The questionnaire can be customized to any language.

The Telehealth Monitor collects vital signs from peripheral devices and from patient questionnaires and transmits the data directly to the disease-management company's own clinical information system, according to RTX.

The company recently received 510(k) market clearance from the U.S FDA and has also passed pilot tests of the system in Denmark.

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