Revolutionizing Home Health 🌍 🛜 BeamO and the Future of Connected Care

Welcome back to The TechLink Health Podcast, where we explore the intersection of health, technology, and innovations that are helping to create the future of healthcare and life sciences! In today's episode we dive into the future of personal health monitoring and connected health with BeamO, the revolutionary compact home health check-up device by Withings, a leader in the health tech space, known for creating connected devices that empower consumers to “make better health part of daily life”. BeamO represents the next step in that journey, with cutting-edge technology designed to give users real-time insights into their health and well-being.

The evolution of connected care and the technologies that are paving the way to the future continues to parallel the emerging need for discoverability of devices such as BeamO and the meaningful insights that are creating opportunities for consumers, clinicians, and companies to engage in new ways.

In today’s episode we dig deeper into these themes and more with Livia Robic, a Biomedical Engineer by training and Product Manager at Withings, as we discuss BeamO in detail, explore its key features, and consider what the future holds for this device in the larger context of connected health.

Listen in with us as we dial in on BeamO and it's revolutionary approach as an influencer device in the growing landscape of connected health. BeamO has recently been recognized as one of Time’s Best Inventions of 2024: 200 Innovations Changing How We Live and as a CES 2024 award-winner!

Other insights range from exploring how connected devices can revolutionize home health while also promoting health equity in medical deserts, to how connected health is increasingly being consumer-driven in a bottoms-up way, leading to demand for health literacy and education, to a growing list of potential risks that will need to be considered as the rate of adoption continues to increase for connected IoHT and IoMT devices.

For more details visit TechLink Health on the web or connect with Livia on LinkedIn.

This episode was hosted by Dr. Sarah Samaan.

🛜 Tech Topics: Connected Health, IoHT, IoMT, Medical Devices, AI, Home Health, Wearables, Tech for Health Equity

The episode points to several references with links below:

📺 Withings Unveiled 2024 — Introducing BeamO

🏅 Withings BeamO: the 200 Best Inventions of 2024 | TIME

📙 The Patient Will See You Now: The Future of Medicine is in Your Hands

🌐 Deloitte: Realising the potential of the Internet of Medical Things

🌐 Wolters Kluwer: Telehealth in care deserts: Helping to overcome barriers created by location, costs, or social stigma

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