Partnership aims to tackle cardiovascular ‘ticking time bomb’

Remote patient monitoring provider Inhealthcare has partnered with FibriCheck, the medically certified app for heart health, to help the NHS combat cardiovascular disease in the UK.

The collaboration between the companies aims to save lives, reduce health inequalities, and ease pressure on the NHS through the scaling up of preventative checks. Cardiovascular disease affects seven million people and is a major cause of disability and death, especially among disadvantaged communities.

Inhealthcare and FibriCheck will offer NHS organisations the ability to monitor heart health across integrated care systems and transform detection and condition management for people with atrial fibrillation, high blood pressure and high cholesterol, the main causes of the disease.

The NHS Long Term Plan identifies cardiovascular disease as a clinical priority and the single biggest opportunity to save lives.

Inhealthcare has worked with the NHS for more than a decade and has developed more than 100 clinically designed digital health services, which have been used by three million patients across the UK.

FibriCheck enables mobile heart rhythm monitoring with medical grade accuracy and has been used by more than 2,000 clinicians and hospitals in 43 countries worldwide. FibriCheck users can measure their own heart rhythm by placing a finger on the camera of their smartphone, which captures data about their cardiovascular system. All measurements are analysed by a medically certified, AI-powered algorithm. The results of the measurements are immediately available and can be shared with the involved physician.

Inhealthcare users can share their readings remotely with healthcare systems via a choice of communication channels. If readings fall out of range, alerts are generated, and clinicians intervene as necessary with medical treatment and advice.

Bryn Sage, chief executive of Inhealthcare, said: “Cardiovascular disease is a ticking time bomb and a major cause of morbidity, disability, and mortality in the UK despite being largely preventable.

“Our partnership with FibriCheck gives integrated care systems the ability to detect and manage risk factors in their populations and reduce avoidable deaths and disease. We are excited at our potential to improve heart health at scale and ease pressure on the NHS and wider economy.

“This is another excellent example of how healthtech companies with innovative and complementary services can come together to confront the challenges facing the NHS and the nation as a whole.”