Turning the smartphone camera into a blood pressure monitor
MedCity News January 7, 2022
Binah.ai is using the smartphone camera to allow contactless, video-based blood pressure measurement technology commercially available to businesses to help in remote patient monitoring.
Sit still, smile and shoot – smile optional. That’s essentially all health insurance members, patients and customers of other businesses using a newly expanded technology by Binah.ai will need to do to get a blood pressure reading.
The Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel-based company, which also has offices in Japan, United Arab Emirates and the United States, made the contactless, video-based blood pressure measurement technology commercially available to businesses. Smartphones have been used to capture blood pressure for several years but they require additional hardware like a bluetooth-connected pressure cuff, for instance.
The capability expands its health data...