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Een plek om het laatste nieuws over connected health en telemonitoring van patiënten te verkennen.
Withings Health Solutions and 9amHealth Partner to Strengthen Employer-Sponsored Obesity Care With Body Composition Monitoring
Withings Health Solutions and 9amHealth Partner to Strengthen Employer-Sponsored Obesity Care With Body Composition Monitoring
Boston, MA – March 4, 2026 – Withings Health Solutions, a pioneer in connected health devices for remote patient monitoring, today announced a new partnership with 9amHealth, a leader in... Meer lezen...
MedStar Health Selects Withings Health Solutions as Partner to Elevate Concierge Care
MedStar Health Selects Withings Health Solutions as Partner to Elevate Concierge Care
Read the exclusive interview published in Fierce Healthcare. Boston, MA – February 19, 2026 – Today, Withings Health Solutions, a pioneer in digital health technology, announced a strategic collaboration with... Meer lezen...
Patient Experiences With Smartwatch ECG Monitoring Compared to Traditional Holter Devices
Patient Experiences With Smartwatch ECG Monitoring Compared to Traditional Holter Devices
Introduction Wearable ECG technology is increasingly used to support ambulatory cardiac rhythm monitoring, but questions remain about how these tools fit into patients’ daily lives. A recent qualitative study conducted... Meer lezen...
What Obesity Care Programs Need to Know About WHO’s New GLP-1 Guidelines
What Obesity Care Programs Need to Know About WHO’s New GLP-1 Guidelines
The World Health Organization recently released its first global guideline on the use of GLP-1–based therapies for obesity, a milestone that signals a major shift in how health systems worldwide... Meer lezen...
Revolutionizing Chronic Kidney Disease Management with Digital Health Tools: The Withings Case Study
Revolutionizing Chronic Kidney Disease Management with Digital Health Tools: The Withings Case Study
Chronic Kidney Disease stage 5 on dialysis (CKD5D) presents one of the most complex and high-risk scenarios in modern medicine. Among the many challenges faced by these patients, cardiovascular disease... Meer lezen...
Sleep as an Early Warning System: Detecting Hidden Health Risks Like Urinary Tract Infections
Sleep as an Early Warning System: Detecting Hidden Health Risks Like Urinary Tract Infections
Introduction A recent study published in Frontiers in Digital Health by Capstick et al. (2024) underscores an emerging insight in connected care: our sleep may hold the earliest signs of... Meer lezen...
An Interview with Christelle Bakarat on the Research Potential of U-Scan
An Interview with Christelle Bakarat on the Research Potential of U-Scan
This article is based on our November 14, 2025 interview with Christelle Bakarat. Christelle Bakarat is the Head of Chemistry for Withings, a role she has held since 2020, after... Meer lezen...
The Perfect Moment for Digital Health to Go Further by Patrick Sheehan
The Perfect Moment for Digital Health to Go Further by Patrick Sheehan
Patrick Sheehan is a healthcare leader at the intersection of technology and care delivery, with a focus on virtual and at-home services for people with chronic conditions. At Withings, he... Meer lezen...
The Promise and Pitfalls of At-Home Sleep Tracking: A Deep Dive into the Withings Sleep Analyzer
The Promise and Pitfalls of At-Home Sleep Tracking: A Deep Dive into the Withings Sleep Analyzer
Introduction Sleep is an essential pillar of health and well-being. The clinical gold standard for sleep assessment, polysomnography or PSG, provides a detailed analysis of sleep architecture but is impractical... Meer lezen...
Electrochemical Skin Conductance as a Novel Tool for Diabetic Foot Ulcer Risk Stratification and Prevention
Introduction Diabetic foot ulcers (DFUs) are a major and often debilitating complication of diabetes, contributing significantly to patient morbidity, mortality, and healthcare costs. Despite advancements in diabetes care, the incidence of DFUs remains high, with a substantial impact on quality of life and healthcare resources. A recent study published in the journal Frontiers in Endocrinology compared the use of electrochemical skin conductance (ESC) to the current standards in DFU detection. The current method for assessing DFU risk primarily involves clinical examination, including the monofilament test, which is subjective and dependent... Meer lezen...
The Need for Remote Patient Monitoring in Menopause Care
The Need for Remote Patient Monitoring in Menopause Care
Menopause can significantly impact sleep, blood pressure, and body composition—and it goes far beyond hot flashes. As estrogen and progesterone levels decline, the risk of obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) increases.... Meer lezen...
Enhancing GLP-1 Programs: Why Lifestyle Support and Withings Health Solutions Technology Matter
Enhancing GLP-1 Programs: Why Lifestyle Support and Withings Health Solutions Technology Matter
GLP-1 medications have been a major breakthrough in helping people manage their weight and improve metabolic health. But as promising as these medications are, they’re just one part of the... Meer lezen...
Why Choose Withings Blood Pressure Monitors
Why Choose Withings Blood Pressure Monitors
For remote blood pressure monitoring, the blood pressure monitor you choose matters — for accuracy, patient engagement, and long-term outcomes. Withings offers two standout options: the BPM Connect Pro and... Meer lezen...
Withings Remote Patient Monitoring Program – An Outcomes Analysis on Hypertension
Withings Remote Patient Monitoring Program – An Outcomes Analysis on Hypertension
This paper aims to analyze the impact of Withings Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) programs on hypertension and hypertensive crisis management in patients with or at risk of developing hypertension. The... Meer lezen...
RPM Insights From Family Health Centers of San Diego
RPM Insights From Family Health Centers of San Diego
Family Health Centers of San Diego (FHCSD) has long been a cornerstone in providing accessible healthcare to underserved communities. Recently, the organization has embraced innovative virtual care strategies to better... Meer lezen...
Takeaways from our Webinar: Converging Insights on Remote Patient Monitoring
Takeaways from our Webinar: Converging Insights on Remote Patient Monitoring
Our webinar on remote patient monitoring brought unique perspectives on the common barriers to activation, adherence and staffing, as well as a look at real outcomes—both at a health center... Meer lezen...
Major Advances in Sleep Health Technology Mark World Sleep Day
Major Advances in Sleep Health Technology Mark World Sleep Day
World Sleep Day, the annual spotlight on sleep health that promotes education, research and patient care, is being held on March 14. Withings is marking the occasion by highlighting the... Meer lezen...
Withings Sleep Rx: Allowing Sleep Specialists to Make House Calls
Withings Sleep Rx: Allowing Sleep Specialists to Make House Calls
Up to 30% of adults experience intermittent or chronic insomnia; 20% suffer from sleep apnea, although up to 80% of them are unaware and undiagnosed.1 Poor sleep and sleep disorders... Meer lezen...
From Bicycles to Sleep Cycles: How Professor Danny Eckert’s Pursuit of Peak Performance Led to Major Advances in our Understanding of Sleep
Professor Danny Eckert of the Adelaide Sleep Institute at Flinders University didn’t set out to be one of the world’s foremost sleep experts. He started as an elite cyclist, representing Australia at the World Championships. Wanting to use his head as well as his body, he studied exercise physiology and sports science in the afternoons, trained on his mountain bike in the mornings, raced competitively, and presumably left some time for sleep. After receiving his degree, he was offered a prestigious appointment with the South Australia Sports Institute. But on... Meer lezen...
A Single-Night Sleep Study Can Misdiagnose Sleep Apnea Up to Half the Time
A Single-Night Sleep Study Can Misdiagnose Sleep Apnea Up to Half the Time
The recent study, “Multinight Prevalence, Variability, and Diagnostic Misclassification of Obstructive Sleep Apnea” by Bastien Lechat and colleagues, sheds light on the limitations of single-night assessments in diagnosing obstructive sleep... Meer lezen...
New Research Using Home Health Devices Underscores the Need to Reexamine the Relationship between Weight and Health
New Research Using Home Health Devices Underscores the Need to Reexamine the Relationship between Weight and Health
Analysis of 3.4M Consumers Body Mass Index Shows that 38.2 Percent of Users classified as Obese or Overweight Are Classified as not Obese or not Preclinically Obese Under the Newly-proposed... Meer lezen...
Point of Care Blood Pressure Education is the Key to Accuracy
Point of Care Blood Pressure Education is the Key to Accuracy
A study published in November of 2024 in the Journal of the American Heart Association confirmed common feedback we hear from care teams: home blood pressure measurements are often not... Meer lezen...
Turning Challenges into Opportunities: Pr.
This article is based on our November 1, 2024 interview with Pr. Solomon Tesfaye. When Solomon Tesfaye was a 16-year-old boy in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, a military regime closed his school and forced the students into national service. Tesfaye, who had by then developed a true passion for learning, desperately hoped to continue his intellectual development and academic journey. On the urging of his brother, he took a chance and applied for an international scholarship to the prestigious Sevenoaks School in Kent, England. Sevenoaks, a storied boarding school founded in... Meer lezen...
Withings 2024 Year in Review: Research Highlights
Withings products not only help individuals and their clinicians better monitor and understand health, but they are contributing to a wide body of research. Withings is honored that researchers are increasingly turning to our products across an impressive number of therapeutic areas. Among them are diabetic neuropathy, retinopathy, sudomotor function, hypertension, sleep quality, sleep apnea, dementia, ECG intervals in children, arrhythmias, cardiovascular autonomic neuropathy (CAN), public health monitoring, and health technology adoption. Here’s just a sampling of the diversity and reach of Withings products in medical research this year. From... Meer lezen...
Sleep Apnea Data from Multiple Nights is Key to Predicting Hypertension and Cardiovascular Risk
Sleep Apnea Data from Multiple Nights is Key to Predicting Hypertension and Cardiovascular Risk
Several new, large-scale studies from the Flinders Medical Research Institute (FHMRI) in Australia found studying sleep in real-world settings over multiple nights can greatly reduce the high 30% error rate... Meer lezen...
Remote Patient Monitoring for Hypertension: Addressing Barriers to Improving Clinical Outcomes with Dr.
Remote Patient Monitoring for Hypertension: Addressing Barriers to Improving Clinical Outcomes with Dr.
Expert insights from Dr. Alexander Blood, MD, MSc, FACC, Cardiologist and Associate Director, Accelerator for Clinical Transformation at Mass General Brigham, reveal how remote patient monitoring can overcome obstacles in... Meer lezen...
What is BPM Pro 2?
What is BPM Pro 2?
BPM Pro 2 is advancing remote blood pressure monitoring as a first-of-its-kind device complete with exclusive features for increased patient engagement and data reliability. This device makes it easy for... Meer lezen...
Heart Health in the GLP-1 Era: The Role of Remote Patient Monitoring
Heart Health in the GLP-1 Era: The Role of Remote Patient Monitoring
According to the American Heart Association, nearly half of all adults in the U.S. have high blood pressure. Recent studies have suggested that effectively treating obesity with GLP-1 agonists may... Meer lezen...
Using a Variety of Modalities to Measure Both Small and Large Fiber Neuropathy Provides More Accurate Estimates of the Prevalence of Diabetic Neuropathies
In April 2024, the Journal of Diabetes and Its Complications published “Contemporary prevalence of diabetic neuropathies in individuals with Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes in a Danish tertiary outpatient clinic”, a large scale study from researchers at the Steno Diabetes Center in Copenhagen, Denmark. Researchers assessed 822 individuals with Type 1 and 899 individuals with Type 2 diabetes for both distal symmetric polyneuropathy (DPN) and diabetic autonomic neuropathy (DAN) using a variety of modalities in order to make population-based prevalence estimates. Where they exist, past estimates of various neuropathies... Meer lezen...
Diabetic Neuropathy Research and Withings Technologies Highlighted at The American Diabetes Association’s 84th Scientifi
Diabetic Neuropathy Research and Withings Technologies Highlighted at The American Diabetes Association’s 84th Scientific Sessions
A number of major new studies and advancements related to screening for diabetic peripheral neuropathy (DPN) were presented at the American Diabetes Association’s 84th Scientific Sessions in Orlando. The headliner... Meer lezen...
Safely Prescribing GLP-1 Medications for Older Adults: Remote care solutions that offer protection and connection
Safely Prescribing GLP-1 Medications for Older Adults: Remote care solutions that offer protection and connection
Transforming Obesity Treatment with GLP-1s for Older Adults A recent survey conducted by Gallup reported that perceived effectiveness of weight loss injections are relatively consistent among younger and middle-aged adults,... Meer lezen...
Neuropathy and DFU Prevention to be Highlighted at the ADA’s 84th Scientific Sessions
Neuropathy and DFU Prevention to be Highlighted at the ADA’s 84th Scientific Sessions
When the world’s leading clinicians and researchers gather later this month in Orlando, Florida at ADA’s 84th Scientific Sessions, diabetic peripheral neuropathy and diabetic foot ulcer prevention will be spotlighted.... Meer lezen...
Culturally-Sensitive Nutrition Education Studied for Pre-Diabetic African American Patients
Culturally-Sensitive Nutrition Education Studied for Pre-Diabetic African American Patients
Withings remote patient monitoring devices will be used by The Strelitz Diabetes Center at Eastern Virginia Medical School (EVMS) in a multi-year ADA-funded study to investigate the efficacy of a... Meer lezen...
LifeMD Partners with Withings to Transform GLP-1 Weight Management Care
LifeMD Partners with Withings to Transform GLP-1 Weight Management Care
Withings Health Solutions and LifeMD, Inc. announced a strategic partnership to combine GLP-1 medications with real-time, at-home monitoring of body composition and blood pressure. LifeMD becomes the first virtual primary... Meer lezen...
The ADA and Withings Join Forces to Reduce Diabetes Risk and Complications
The ADA and Withings Join Forces to Reduce Diabetes Risk and Complications
Calls have been growing louder to more effectively address the related problems of diabetes-related foot ulcers (DFUs) and amputations, two of the most serious consequences of diabetes-related peripheral neuropathy (DPN).... Meer lezen...
Small Fiber Neuropathy – The Under-Diagnosed Peripheral Neuropathy
Small Fiber Neuropathy – The Under-Diagnosed Peripheral Neuropathy
In an interview with Harvard Medical School’s Harvard Health, Dr. Khosro Farhad, a neuropathy expert at Harvard-affiliated Massachusetts General Hospital, noted that small-fiber neuropathy is generally underdiagnosed because routine neurological... Meer lezen...
Understanding our ESC Technology for Detecting and Monitoring DPN
Understanding our ESC Technology for Detecting and Monitoring DPN
Electrochemical Skin Conductance (ESC) is a physiological parameter that measures the reactivity of sweat glands and small nerve fibers in the skin to electrical stimuli. Elevated blood sugar levels can... Meer lezen...
Withings Introduces Body Pro 2, an Rx Device for Early Detection of DPN*
Withings Introduces Body Pro 2, an Rx Device for Early Detection of DPN*
Smart Scales have traditionally been used by consumers to track their personal wellness metrics. However, Withings saw an opportunity to use highly sophisticated technologies in an at-home setting that provide... Meer lezen...
Part 3: Supporting Safe and Sustainable Weight Loss With GLP-1s – Managing weight after medication
Part 3: Supporting Safe and Sustainable Weight Loss With GLP-1s – Managing weight after medication
Strategies for long-term success and patient engagement Weight gain is likely when patients stop taking a GLP-1 therapy. A2022 study found patients who took the GLP-1 semaglutide had regained two... Meer lezen...
Part 2: Supporting Safe and Sustainable Weight Loss With GLP-1s – Why body composition matters
Part 2: Supporting Safe and Sustainable Weight Loss With GLP-1s – Why body composition matters
A key biomarker in remote GLP-1 medication management GLP-1 agonists are remarkably effective in helping patients lose weight. But this can’t be done in a vacuum. “Ensuring safety and appropriate... Meer lezen...
Part 1: Supporting Safe and Sustainable Weight Loss With GLP-1s – Finding the right remote health technologies
Part 1: Supporting Safe and Sustainable Weight Loss With GLP-1s – Finding the right remote health technologies
Exploring the Surge in Remote GLP-1 Prescription Access New medications like GLP-1 agonists offer a promising tool to help patients achieve a healthy weight. But supporting patients in long-term weight... Meer lezen...
Building and Maintaining a Successful Digital Health Program: Why the Right Partnership Matters
Building and Maintaining a Successful Digital Health Program: Why the Right Partnership Matters
Digital health programs have the potential to deliver an in-depth understanding of patients’ well-being. Through these programs, patients use in-home devices to share biometric data with their health program, providing... Meer lezen...
6 tips for integrating a connected device into a digital health program
6 tips for integrating a connected device into a digital health program
When it comes to managing conditions like high blood pressure and diabetes, digital health programs need swift, regular updates about how patients are faring. Real-time insights into biomarkers such as... Meer lezen...
Pioneering Real Change in Diabetes Care
Pioneering Real Change in Diabetes Care
Delivering a breakthrough biomarker in the at-home setting An estimated 38.4 million people in the U.S. have diabetes, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Up to 70%... Meer lezen...
Redefining At-Home Health Care: The Future of Chronic Condition Management
Redefining At-Home Health Care: The Future of Chronic Condition Management
What's next for the digital health industry? The unmanageable burden of chronic conditions on patients and care teams The U.S. healthcare system is strained with 50% of the population having... Meer lezen...
How Connected Health Devices Can Help Reduce Chronic Illness
How Connected Health Devices Can Help Reduce Chronic Illness
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), over half (51.8%) of U.S. adults have at least one diagnosed chronic condition, including arthritis, asthma, diabetes, and hypertension. Connected... Meer lezen...
How to Start a Remote Patient Monitoring Program Without Creating Extra Workload
How to Start a Remote Patient Monitoring Program Without Creating Extra Workload
Even though remote patient monitoring (RPM) programs come with a host of benefits for both patients and providers, the idea of starting one can be daunting for busy medical practices.... Meer lezen...
How To Build Well-Rounded Team For Your RPM Program
How To Build Well-Rounded Team For Your RPM Program
Remote patient monitoring (RPM) programs are beneficial for both patients and medical practices. But an RPM initiative’s success depends on the people behind the program. In this article, we look... Meer lezen...
Why Start a Remote Patient Monitoring Program?
Why Start a Remote Patient Monitoring Program?
Accessing a patient’s key health metrics remotely was something few healthcare providers could envision just a few decades ago. Today, this technology is readily available, with medical-grade health devices collecting... Meer lezen...
How to Use Shared Decision-Making to Improve Healthcare
How to Use Shared Decision-Making to Improve Healthcare
Healthcare providers are certainly experts in the field, professionally trained to collect and analyze data on patients and recommend care options they believe best meet patients’ needs. But the patient... Meer lezen...