What You Should Know:
– Withings Health Solutions has launched Body Pro 2, a revolutionary cellular-connected smart scale that is designed to improve the way patients with diabetes are cared for.
– Body Pro 2 is a cellular-connected smart scale that can be used to capture advanced health metrics such as weight and body composition.
Diabetic Foot Ulcers Assessment
The first module of Body Pro 2 is prescription-only and focuses on improving care for patients with diabetes, addressing diabetic foot health challenges. It monitors Electrochemical Skin Conductance (ESC) to detect early signs of Diabetic Peripheral Neuropathies (DPN) and assess the risk of diabetic foot ulcers. Body Pro 2 also enables at-home ESC measurements for early detection and monitoring of diabetic peripheral neuropathies.
Patient-Engagement Features
Body Pro 2 introduces features to enhance patient engagement, including personalized health nudges, eyes closed mode for discreet engagement, a vibrant color screen with additional information like weight trends and weather forecasting, and smart design elements for improved user experience.
Enhanced Partner Experience
The scale introduces ProgramMemberID, a patient recognition feature providing care teams with assurance of measurement source authenticity. It also features an Engagement Score helps care teams understand patient engagement levels based on Withings scale data.
“This is a turning point for the healthcare industry as we are bringing a breakthrough measurement, backed by a decade of developments and hundreds of peer-reviewed scientific publications, to the at-home setting,” says Eric Carreel, Withings Founder and President. “Not only will this allow for early detection of a largely underdiagnosed condition and therefore a better management of the diabetic foot but I also believe that providing access to longitudinal ESC data has the potential to help the industry rethink how we should care for patients with diabetes. I look forward to working with the medical and scientific communities to uncover all the potential of this at-home measurement.”
Overall, Body Pro 2 is a significant advancement in the field of digital health that has the potential to improve the lives of millions of people with diabetes.
