Fierce Healthcare April 25, 2024
Owlet is bringing its infant vitals monitoring product directly to caregivers through a new partnership with popular telehealth engine Wheel, it announced Thursday.
Together, the companies will provide a rapid access telehealth prescription of Owlet’s FDA-cleared pulse oximeter, BabySat. The device requires a prescription, which the company says it can offer through the Wheel-powered telehealth service in as few as four hours.
With the device, a caregiver can monitor their child’s vitals and clinicians can complete periodic assessments or continuous monitoring for infants at home who may have had a prior complication and spent time in the intensive care unit.
Wheel provides a pre-built virtual care platform and nationwide clinician network that enables healthcare companies to scale up telehealth services...