Minute Insight: Biotronik Launches Remote Monitor That Can Prevent Heart Failure Hospitalizations

The HeartInsight algorithm combines heart failure parameters into a predictive score and alerts physicians if a patient with an implanted ICD or CRT-D is at higher risk of hospitalization. Biotronik will roll out HeartInsight in Europe in April.

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Biotronik announced the European launch of its HeartInsight remote heart failure management solution, an algorithm that accurately identifies patients at higher risk of heart-failure decompensation and helps physicians keep heart failure patients out of the hospital.

HeartInsight recently received a CE mark and the company plans to present the algorithm to clinicians for the first time...

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