Sensors Converge and Fierce Electronics announced the winners of the 2022 Best of Sensors Awards during a special ceremony held in June. This awards honor the best new products and companies in the sensor ecosystem as well as the people who bring them to life. Strados Labs won the award in the Wearables category — one of 13 award categories.
Strados Labs is a medical technology company that is using the power of smart sensors to support the early detection and prediction of diseases to enhance patient care. When Strados Labs started developing the RESP Smart Sensor Platform, there were no convenient or simple ways to capture abnormal lung sounds and patterns remotely.
This first-of-its-kind smart sensor platform provides the capability of measuring and recording lung sounds remotely across a diverse mix of healthcare settings (hospitals, clinical trials, research, and nursing homes) to identify abnormal breathing patterns.
“More than 30 million patient visits each year can be improved, or avoided entirely, by adding real-time remote auscultation to the tools of the caregiver who has ready access to the patient’s RESP archive for comparison,” said Mitchell Glass, MD, chief medical officer at Strados Labs, in a statement when the company earned FDA Class II 510(k) clearance for the RESP Smart Sensor Platform.
Using the RESP Smart Sensor Platform, clinicians can detect lung acoustics and respiratory patterns of patients early and remotely through a cost-effective, non-invasive, and wireless solution. Integrated into existing clinical workflows, its cloud-based system can be billed under RPM and Telehealth codes. Using patent-pending algorithms, RESP captures and displays lung sounds and breathing patterns to assist in predicting and preventing costly and life-threatening pulmonary failure events.
The RESP smart sensor is small, unobtrusive, and hands-free. It is attached to the chest with a medical grade adhesive. Many patients say they don’t realize they're wearing it. Consequently, patients wear the device for longer periods of time and comply with doctor’s orders at a rate of 99.59%, which translates into complete and accurate data. Better data means a faster diagnosis time by a physician or care team. The device records and stores every lung sound, whether the patient is sleeping, exercising, or spending time with family.
This recorded data is uploaded automatically to the Strados cloud so that a patient’s recordings can be assessed in near real-time. Proprietary machine learning algorithms for autonomous wheeze, cough, CABS detection, and more find trends in a patient's lung health with over 97% accuracy compared to trained physicians.
The team at Strados Labs first came together at a health hackathon, where they came up with an idea to build a better way of getting repository information into the hands of clinicians and avoiding adverse respiratory events. They successfully transformed that idea into reality and plan to continue harnessing the ability of smart sensors and artificial intelligence to detect and predict disease symptoms earlier to enhance patient care.
You can find the full list of finalists in the Best of Sensors 2022 Awards here.