Ambio Health officials announce that the company’s Ambio Remote Health Monitoring System, a wireless remote health and activity-monitoring tool, received Class II FDA Clearance 510(k).
“Our goal at Ambio is to enable individuals to take health readings at home and get connected to health care providers, loved ones and caregivers who may not be able to visit every day,” states Kevin Jones, CEO at Ambio Health. “We are very pleased to have realized the important milestone of FDA 510(k) clearance so quickly as it means we will be able to make this product readily available to those who need it.”
The Ambio Remote Health Monitoring System offers patients:
- Home health readings that are automatically logged and can be viewed by family members and caregivers from the secure, web-based Ambio Care Portal
- Accurate and complete readings which are available to health care providers for the regular monitoring of patient health
- The ability to set individualized alert levels and notifications of exception conditions
- Individualized reminders for readings and medications that can be sent to the patient via telephone call, text message or email
- An affordable system designed to work with a number of health monitors
- A HIPAA compliant tool that keeps health information private and secure
The system’s price starts at $49.97 for a single device, which includes a wireless glucose meter, and the user then pays an annual subscription that is the equivalent of $4.99 per month. Additional devices with wireless connectivity include a blood pressure meter and a weight scale and can be added a-la-carte.
Dr. Jason C. Baker, MD with Weill Cornell Physicians, notes: "Unlike competitors who just focus on glucose levels, Ambio is uniquely designed to also provide an interface on the critical measures of blood pressure and weight, which are key pieces in controlling the diabetes puzzle. The Ambio dashboard provides a comprehensive, yet straight-forward, overview of glucose control, and can be personalized to meet the needs of individual patients and providers.”
Adds Joy Pape, RN BSN CDE WOCN CFCN FAADE, an internationally-known Certified Diabetes Educator in New York City: “Over the last few months, I have been recommending the use of Ambio Remote Health Monitoring System to patients who have high blood pressure, heart disease or diabetes. By providing patients with a way to effortlessly take readings at home which can then be transmitted wirelessly, their caregivers – whether they be family members and/or health care providers – are alerted immediately to any abnormalities that might indicate a change in care for the patient.”
Pape continues: “The Ambio system shortens the amount of time I spend with my patients just finding, recording, or downloading their numbers in a manner that I can make sense of. Ambio allows me to spend more time with my patients looking at patterns, evaluating their health, and making necessary changes."