Vitalthings delivers proactive contactless health monitoring

As pressure on healthcare services grows worldwide, more and more patients are being moved from hospitals to nursing homes. As a result, many people with a significant need for follow-up who live in nursing homes today, will likely be homebound in the future.

Vitalthings solutions have been created to respond to this development. They represent a technological bridge between welfare services and medical services and enable the adaptation of services to meet the changing needs of users and municipal health services.

Vitalthings focuses on creating solutions that contribute to more efficient ways of working – for the benefit of employees, patients and society as a whole. The company’s primary focuses include increased patient safety through precise data and discreet monitoring, better resource utilisation through proactive follow-up, and solutions that enable needs-based supervision.

Vitalthings Guardian M10 is a contactless patient monitor that supports healthcare professionals in delivering safer, more efficient care. By continuously monitoring vital signs, it provides real-time insights without the need for physical sensors, making it ideal for both high and low-intensity settings, such as emergency departments and orthopaedic wards.

Vitalthings Guardian H10 continuously measures breathing patterns, presence, unrest, sleep and environmental parameters. It’s connected to a screen, which helps health and care personnel to get an overview of the patient’s health condition without the need to perform physical supervision, which often can be disturbing for the patient. The technology is based on experience from Vitalthings’ sleep monitor Somnofy and has been developed to identify deteriorating health conditions, making it possible to take action before severe sickness develops or hospitalisation becomes necessary. This functionality will now be medically certified. Guardian H10 has been launched without medical services being activated, but it is designed in such a way that such services can be activated when they are certified.

Both solutions are based on the same data streams and have been developed in close collaboration with healthcare professionals and patients.

Guardian M10 can be used at hospitals, where the simple and easy contactless measurement of vital parameters increases patient safety and enhances efficiency for doctors and nurses.

Guardian H10 is developed to be used in nursing homes and for home care. At nursing homes, staff benefit from the efficient night guard which detects poor sleep, restlessness and deterioration in vital parameters. Alarms can be sent directly to nurses’ phones, which reduces noise in the environment, helping to combat alarm fatigue. For home care, the H10 enables effective and high-quality follow-up of homebound individuals, reducing pressure on home care workers.

National health systems are struggling to keep up with the rising demand for healthcare, and the World Health Organization (WHO) estimates a shortage of 10 million healthcare workers by 2030.

Not only is the volume of patients growing but medical conditions are becoming increasingly complex. Caregiving and conventional health monitoring are time consuming and labour intensive, and the healthcare sector would benefit from technological solutions to remotely monitor patient well-being.