Cambridge Heartwear: AI and Medical Device Startup Honoured a World Changing Idea for 2019 Award by Fast Company
Heartsense, a wearable ECG monitor being developed by Cambridge Heartwear, a disruptive healthcare startup, makes it on the Fast Company World Changing ideas 2019 in the Health and Wellness category in the first year of the company.
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., April 8, 2019 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- "It's all about the patient and preventing stokes and dangerous heart rhythms to save lives" - This has always and remains mine and Cambridge heartwear's focus said MIT academic clinician Dr Rameen Shakur MD PhD . As the Founder and chair of Cambridge heartwear (http://www.cambridgeheartwear.com) he feels humbled that the idea he drew out amongst his friends and the device he first built in his garden shed with his co-founders is changing global healthcare access and monitoring for dangerous cardiac rhythms. "Being recognised as one of Fast Company's World Changing ideas for 2019 even at our young age as a company is awesome!"
"This is testament to all those small startups like us who believe executing an idea should be the main focus of a company rather than getting the right names on a board!" Dr Shakur's Cambridge Heartwear company was already named in the 2018 by Price Waterhouse Coopers (PWC) list of most disruptive companies in the health sector. https://www.pwc.co.uk/who-we-are/regional-sites/south-east/insights/5-days-of-disruption-heartwear-south-east.html
Cambridge Heartwear is a medical provider of low-cost, next generation wearable heart monitors that uses artificial intelligence (AI) to diagnose heart rhythms and respiratory problems in real time.
https://www.healthline.com/health-news/cardiologist-releases-first-ai-driven-wearable-heart-monitor
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