A smart toilet seat that measures people’s vital signs has received FDA clearance.
The Heart Seat from Casana got approved to detect heart rate and oxygen levels. The company says it plans to launch its first product by the end of 2023 and pursue systolic and diastolic blood pressure monitoring in future filings.
“As medicine moves from the physician’s office into the home, accurate home monitoring of medical parameters is increasingly important,” said George Bakris, MD, director of the Comprehensive Hypertension Center at University of Chicago Medicine and a Casana adviser, in a May 1 news release. “FDA approval is a critical validation step for the Heart Seat.
The Heart Seat is an IoT heart health toilet seat that captures clinically relevant measurements, including heart rate, blood pressure, blood oxygenation, and cardiac output. It is Casana’s first product1. The Heart Seat is installed on a toilet just like any other standard toilet seat and is powered by batteries that allow the Seat to operate for years. Once connected to wifi, The Heart Seat transfers the user’s data to the secure Casana cloud network for analysis by the Casana algorithms to produce clinically relevant data2. The Heart Seat will capture key clinical measurements, including heart rate, blood pressure, and blood oxygenation, to assist medical teams with monitoring chronic conditions beyond the four walls of the hospital3.
The Heart Seat is installed on a toilet just like any other standard toilet seat and is powered by batteries that allow the Seat to operate for years. Once connected to wifi, The Heart Seat transfers the user’s data to the secure Casana cloud network for analysis by the Casana algorithms to produce clinically relevant data1. The Heart Seat will capture key clinical measurements, including heart rate, blood pressure, and blood oxygenation, to assist medical teams with monitoring chronic conditions beyond the four walls of the hospital2.
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