Remote Monitoring Promotes Community Health beyond Hospitals

About this technology

Overview

Starting with the Gemini Program, Spacelabs Healthcare worked with Johnson Space Center to develop a system to send data on astronauts’ body temperature, heart rate, breathing cycles, and blood pressure to ground stations during flight. The Snoqualmie, Washington-based company quickly saw potential in healthcare on the ground, and today, Spacelabs Healthcare telemetric monitoring systems are in most hospitals around the world. The company is now expanding into community health monitoring—for example, sophisticated, diagnostic-level health monitors that can be worn home and alert doctors if the patient needs intervention.