While I have been in the patient monitoring space for thirty years, it is felt that this definitely could be the revolution in patient monitoring as we see it. Definitely the growth is outside the acute care area and moving to sub-acute and the home. The challenge is how do you leverage the available communication technologies to provide low cost, long battery life, and ultimate flexibility. Can you drive down costs by using existing low power Bluetooth and then leverage this to communicate to your laptop and/or smart phone? Yes. I also find it quite profound in the use of accelerometers, as this could help provide early warning detection of potential falls and/or even detection of early stage Parkinsons. I see this as a natural fit (and use model) in post operative CABGS, (Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting), and ICD implants (post operative). The guy in the video most definitely had his chest cracked as you can see via his scar from the sternotomy. Also looks like he has a pacemaker implanted and it is pacing by the inverted ECG, with ventricular spike. See attached and YouTube video. Finally, you will notice the lack of any display. I find it amazing in the traditional intensive care units you do not have folks watching central stations anymore and/or nurses are not watching the beside monitor displays. Besides if you are gathering this information in the cloud and storing this, what is rationale for the extra cost here. Again, keep it simple. Understand the I-Phone was not a new phone, but a new way of doing things.

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