Local hospitals see money in home blood-pressure testing
By adamg - 6/12/09 - 9:26 am
Xconomy reports Partners HealthCare, which owns Mass. General and Brigham and Womens, is launching a startup to get into the burgeoning home-testing market.
The spinoff's first product is a system that lets users connect a blood-pressure cuff to a computer, which then uploads the results to a server on which users can track how their blood pressure is doing. The new company says a trial run with hypertensive employees at EMC showed the system helped them better control their numbers.
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Interesting
There was an employee health fair at Brigham & Women's last week with an extremely hard-sell booth offering these to qualified staff free of charge for a year.
Extremely hard-sell?
"I sees from youse personnel file youse have a beautiful family, Mr. Jones. Be a shame if somethings was to *happen* to dem... because youse didn't look after youse *health*... Now how abouts we sets you up with a free blood-pressure testing trial?"