Maggie Lo, Author at Sleep Apnea Centre

FDA-cleared Belun Sleep System may speed up OSA diagnosis for 1 billion population

Maggie Lo — Wed, 01 Mar 2023 21:51:49 +0000

Belun Technology has just received FDA 510(k) clearance (K-document: K222579) from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its Belun Sleep System as the World’s First wearable ring for obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) using AI. Belun Sleep Platform, which is comfortable and easy to use, is believed to speed up the diagnosis of 936 million worldwide with moderate to severe OSA¹. It may result in massive savings on medical expenditures for chronic disease management of the aging population.

Keep people healthy with our preventive healthcare data

Belun’s CEO, Dr. Lydia Leung, shared: “we hope to facilitate home sleep tests for identifying undiagnosed OSA. Research shows sleep health is critical for the overall immune system & treatment effectiveness of chronic diseases.” The company is expanding towards Preventive Healthcare from the original sleep health. The new direction is an insight found from collaborating with worldwide specialists. Since the launch of our 1st generation Belun Ring in 2018, it has been gradually adopted in other research on long-term diseases, including stroke, hypertension, insomnia, dementia, etc.

“Our new company direction results from the co-created insights after collaborating with worldwide researchers. Sleep takes up so much human time, but we know little about it. Our vision is to keep people healthy with our preventive healthcare data.”
Lydia Leung, CEO of Belun Technology

Worldwide obesity epidemic & the aging population

The sedentary lifestyle of people has led to an increasing prevalence of cardiovascular disease, poor sleep patterns, evaluated stress & obesity. OSA is common in patients with high BMI. Therefore, the worldwide obesity epidemic and the aging population demographic will likely contribute to the rising global prevalence of OSA. According to the World Economic Forum, 1 in 3 adults worldwide will suffer from 2 or more chronic conditions, leading to annual healthcare costs with an 80-300% increment². World Health Organization estimates a projected 10 million health workers shortfall by 2030³. Researchers predicted demand for healthcare workers will increase to 80 million by 2030, but supply will only reach 65 million, creating a healthcare worker deficit of 15 million. The anticipated shortage requires some immediate actions, or access to primary healthcare would be at risk.

Lancet report¹ – Prevalence of OSA in different countries. AHI=apnoea-hypopnoea index

PPG-based wearable with medical accuracy

Belun’s CEO, Lydia Leung, shared: “Belun® Ring is a user and environmentally friendly PPG-based wearable with medical accuracy. Belun will offer a superb convenient option that may bring disruption to the sleep health market & encourage suspected patients to take action and kick start their treatment journey.” According to AASM⁴, “ubiquitous availability of PPG technology may allow for OSA diagnosis at scale.” There is “an increased interest in new technologies with therapeutic potential.”

Chronic Disease Management via AI Preventive Healthcare

Belun’s vision is to help people better manage their chronic diseases through artificial intelligence and big data analytics to alleviate medical expenditures due to the aging population. Our solution allows caregivers and patients to follow their treatment effectiveness, select personalized solutions, and enhance treatment compliance. Lydia further shared: “Long-term monitoring using medical-grade wearables can help people to identify abnormalities earlier to achieve preventive healthcare.”

Belun^® Ring is adopted as a digital sleep diary as part of the
CBT-I treatment in Hong Kong

Worldwide partnership for the OSA markets

To cope with the massive market, Belun has teamed up with global partners to customize solutions for local communities in different countries. Some sleep lab groups in the United States will launch the Belun Sleep System to cater to both the OSA & insomnia markets. For the Indian market, Belun will collaborate with renowned neurologists & sleep specialists to tap into the millions of untreated OSA. The two markets have 104 million suspected OSA, according to the Lancet report¹.

Partnering with Belun :

Up to now, over a hundred organizations, including HK hospital authority hospitals, medical groups, clinic groups, dentists, and elderly centers selected to use the Belun Sleep System, Belun® Ring and Sleep App, and Belun® remoVital monitoring system. Many doctors read our medical journal papers, including 1) “Belun® Ring Platform: a novel home sleep apnea testing system for assessment of obstructive sleep apnea” (https://jcsm.aasm.org/doi/10.5664/jcsm.8592) and 2) “Detection of obstructive sleep apnea using Belun Sleep Platform wearable with neural network based algorithm and its combined use with STOP-Bang questionnaire” (https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0258040).

If you would like to know more about how to adopt Belun’s solution in your organization or home use, please feel free to contact us to schedule a meeting by filling out the form below:

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References

1.A.V, Benjafield et al, Lancet Respiratory Medicine, 2019; 2. Susanna Ng et al, PLOS One, 2015

2. https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2017/12/healthcare-future-multiple-chronic-disease-ncd /

3. https://www.who.int/news/item/02-06-2022-global-strategy-on-human-resources-for-health–workforce-2030

4. https://aasm.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Tech-Committee-Report.pdf

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Belun in India

Maggie Lo — Tue, 14 Feb 2023 02:08:17 +0000

Belun joined the conference, “7th International Sleep Update 2023,” held in New Delhi, India, on Feb 12^th and 13th, organized by the Neurology Sleep Centre, New Delhi. The event composed of a 2-days conference on the topic “Innovative Approach to Sleep Disorders” cum exhibition.

Speakers of the Event

Belun representatives showed the Belun Sleep System, Belun® Ring, and Sleep App for the first time in a public event in India. We had many insightful discussions with industry leaders.

Dr. Manvir Bhatia, Senior Consultant of the Neurology Sleep Centre

Belun representatives

Photo credit: Sumeet Sethi

Continued Reading :

The Emerging Importance of Dental Sleep Medicine

The Emerging Importance of Dental Sleep Medicine (Part 2)

Partnering with Belun :

Up to now, over 32 organizations, including HK hospital authority, medical groups, clinic groups, dentists, and elderly centers selected to use the Belun Sleep System, Belun® Ring and Sleep App, and Belun® remoVital monitoring system. Many doctors read our medical journal papers, including 1) “Belun® Ring Platform: a novel home sleep apnea testing system for assessment of obstructive sleep apnea” (https://jcsm.aasm.org/doi/10.5664/jcsm.8592) and 2) “Detection of obstructive sleep apnea using Belun Sleep Platform wearable with neural network based algorithm and its combined use with STOP-Bang questionnaire” (https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0258040). If you would like to know more about how to adopt Belun’s solution in your organization or home use, pls feel free to contact us to schedule a meeting by filling in the form below:

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Sharing with Clinical Psychologists of HK’s Public Hospital

Maggie Lo — Thu, 02 Feb 2023 11:57:51 +0000

Thanks for Pamela Youde Nethersole Eastern Hospital Clinical Psychology Department’s invitation for sharing potential applications of the Belun Sleep Platform for better patient care.

Belun’s CEO Dr. Lydia Leung was walking through the parameters tracked by the Belun Sleep System

We had a fruitful discussion in the one hour sharing session.

To under more about how Belun’s applications would help clinical psychologists, see our previous story about CBT-I.

Partnering with Belun :

Up to now, over 32 organizations, including HK hospital authority hospitals, medical groups, clinic groups, dentists, and elderly centers selected to use the Belun Sleep System, Belun® Ring and Sleep App, and Belun® remoVital monitoring system. Many doctors read our medical journal papers, including 1) “Belun® Ring Platform: a novel home sleep apnea testing system for assessment of obstructive sleep apnea” (https://jcsm.aasm.org/doi/10.5664/jcsm.8592) and 2) “Detection of obstructive sleep apnea using Belun Sleep Platform wearable with neural network based algorithm and its combined use with STOP-Bang questionnaire” (https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0258040). If you would like to know more about how to adopt Belun’s solution in your organization or home use, please feel free to contact us to schedule a meeting by filling out the form below:

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References

1. Whelton PK, Carey RM, Aronow WS, Casey DE, Collins KJ, Dennison Himmelfarb C, et al. 2017 ACC/AHA/AAPA/ABC/ACPM/AGS/APhA/ASH/ASPC/NMA/PCNA Guideline for the Prevention, Detection, Evaluation, and Management of High Blood Pressure in Adults: Executive Summary: A Report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Clinical Practice Guidelines. Hypertension. 2018 Jun;71(6):1269–324.

2. Sánchez-de-la-Torre M, Khalyfa A, Sánchez-de-la-Torre A, Martinez-Alonso M, Martinez-García MÁ, Barceló A, et al. Precision Medicine in Patients With Resistant Hypertension and Obstructive Sleep Apnea. Journal of the American College of Cardiology. 2015 Sep;66(9):1023–32.

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Vital sign monitoring tool – customer review

Maggie Lo — Mon, 30 Jan 2023 18:49:28 +0000

The award-winning Belun® remoVital is a real-time remote vital sign monitoring system. It adopts AI and IoT technologies that can collect vital sign data by IoT medical sensors and the machine learning AI algorithm for data analysis. The Belun® remoVital has been piloted in Taiwan, US, and Singapore. In March 2022, Belun deployed the Belun^® remoVital system on a massive scale in Hong Kong as one of the combat COVID-19 government measures. Many systems are still operating to safeguard the elderly and the weakest link in society.

Belun remoVital, a vital sign monitoring system offering better protection to the elderly, winning in various ICT awards

Safeguarding the lives of elderly in Hong Kong via this vital sign monitoring system

This vital sign monitoring system has been deployed to 60+ residential care homes in Hong Kong and received much positive feedback. The device offers better client protection and greatly reduces the pressure on care workers during the COVID-19 pandemic.

See how our users think about the system :

It offers huge support in monitoring vital sign changes with patients wearing the ring; the system automates health monitoring continuously. In addition, our caretakers would be alerted when abnormal changes in vital signs trigger the alarm, and caretakers would provide immediate support.
Wan Wah Care & Attention Home for the Elderly
Hong Kong Young Women’s Christian Association

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How to do remote vital sign monitoring ?

It is the first IoT system in the World composed of a medical-grade wearable Belun® Ring, a body temperature sensor Belun® COR and a communication hub, empowering caretakers to monitor the client’s condition anytime, anywhere, remotely. Its alert system facilitates early detection of deteriorating clients, provides timely medical support and offers better protection and quality care.

Vital sign monitoring through tablets with an internet connection

Transmissions of the vital sign – how it work ?

Physicians can also triage the clients effectively based on the vital sign trend. The device is applicable for real-time or remote monitoring for hospital accident & emergency wards, early discharged patients, elderly care homes, rehabilitation centres & clinics. It’s designed with easy deployment, automatically connecting to the mobile network (NBIoT / CAT M1 / 4G) without pairing for Bluetooth or WiFi. The proprietary algorithm monitors vital signs, predicts abnormalities, and avoids artifacts to minimize false alarms. It also allows different pre-set thresholds for the needs of other client groups, fulfilling the role of a scaleable remote patient monitoring tool. It also supports API for exporting data to Clinical Management System. See more details here.

Partners using Belun® remoVital System

Partnering with Belun :

Up to now, over 32 organizations, including HK hospital authority hospitals, medical groups, clinic groups, dentists, and elderly centers selected to use the Belun Sleep Platform, Belun® Ring and Sleep App, and Belun® remoVital monitoring system. Many doctors read our medical journal papers, including 1) “Belun® Ring Platform: a novel home sleep apnea testing system for assessment of obstructive sleep apnea” (https://jcsm.aasm.org/doi/10.5664/jcsm.8592) and 2) “Detection of obstructive sleep apnea using Belun Sleep Platform wearable with neural network based algorithm and its combined use with STOP-Bang questionnaire” (https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0258040). If you would like to know more about how to adopt Belun’s solution in your organization or home use, please feel free to contact us to schedule a meeting by filling out the form below:

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References

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Vital sign monitoring tool won at the APICTA 2022

Maggie Lo — Mon, 12 Dec 2022 11:45:24 +0000

Belun Technology is proud to share that our healthcare solutions Belun^® remoVital (vital sign monitoring system), won Merit Award in the categories of “Inclusions & Community Services – Health & Wellbeing” & the “Technology – Internet of Things” at The Asia Pacific ICT Alliance Awards #APICTA2022 among 26 countries.

Receiving the Merit Award in the “Inclusions & Community Services – Health & Wellbeing” Category

Asia Pacific ICT Alliance (APICTA) Awards is an international awards program known as the Oscars of the Asian IT industry; it aims to increase ICT awareness in the community and assist in bridging the digital divide.

Merit Award for the “Technology – Internet of Things” Category

The awards were hosted by #Pakistan for the first time. The prestigious event was attended by 16 economies of the Asia Pacific region, with 150+ foreign delegates, as well as eminent local businesses, entrepreneurs, and public sector professionals.

See the overall performance of the Hong Kong delegation in the APICTA [LINK]

For more information about the event [LINK]

About Belun® remoVital

Belun® remoVital is a vital sign monitoring system that empowers efficient monitoring & better care for the elderly & patients. Its alert system facilitates the early detection of deteriorating patients for timely medical support. The device reduces 90% of unnecessary interactions with patients in the isolation zone, thus minimizing the risk of the virus spreading and solving the problem of caregiver shortage during the pandemic.

“Our team transformed the sleep health platform to an Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) platform to combat COVID-19 as one community. The IoMT platform will become part of Belun’s preventive healthcare platform to help reduce the medical burdens due to the aging population & prevalence of chronic diseases.” shared Lydia Leung, Co-founder, and CEO of Belun Technology.

About Belun Technology

Besides Belun® remoVital, Belun has an outstanding award-winning track record, Belun® Ring winning the Hong Kong ICT Award 2018 – Award of the year, ICT Startup Grand Award and Smart Living Grand Award. The company also won 3 awards in the Asia Pacific ICT Award 2018, including the Inclusions and Community Services – Wellbeing category (Winner), Start-Up of the Year – Business and Community (Merit) and Technology of the Year – Big Data Analytics (Merit).

Belun is a data technology company headquartered in Hong Kong with Preventive Healthcare Solutions powered by billions of health fingerprints and proprietary AI algorithms collected from global research in the US, Hong Kong, Singapore & Taiwan. Their medical-grade wearables & AI solutions for screening sleep health can evaluate treatment effectiveness for patients with chronic disease & predict health risks.

Video showcase: http://tiny.cc/Belun_remoVital

Continue Reading :

https://sac.hk/2022/10/27/remote-patient-monitoring-1/

Digital Health advancement: From initial screening, in-patient care to prevention of re-admission in hospital management (Part II)

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Partnering with Belun :

Up to now, over 32 organizations, including HK hospital authority, medical groups, clinic groups, dentists, and elderly centers selected to use the Belun Sleep health platform, Belun® Ring and Sleep App, and Belun® RemoVital monitoring system. Many doctors read our medical journal papers, including 1) “Belun® Ring Platform: a novel home sleep apnea testing system for assessment of obstructive sleep apnea” (https://jcsm.aasm.org/doi/10.5664/jcsm.8592) and 2) “Detection of obstructive sleep apnea using Belun Sleep Platform wearable with neural network based algorithm and its combined use with STOP-Bang questionnaire” (https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0258040). If you would like to know more about how to adopt Belun’s solution in your organization or home use, pls feel free to contact us to schedule a meeting by filling in the form below:

Submit a form.

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Remote vital sign monitoring tool empowered Belun Technology to protect the HK community and won the HKICT award 2022

Maggie Lo — Wed, 16 Nov 2022 13:05:10 +0000

For Immediate Release ［Hong Kong – 16 November 2022］

Belun Technology is named the Hong Kong ICT Awards 2022 – Smart People Grand Award

Belun Technology Company Limited (Belun), a healthcare data technology company for preventive healthcare, announced today that its Belun^® remoVital monitoring system (for remote vital sign monitoring) was named the Smart People Grand Award and Smart People (Smart Ageing) Gold Award of the Hong Kong ICT Awards (HKICTA) 2022, steered by the Office of the Government Chief Information Officer & 8 other organizers, including the Hong Kong Council of Social Service hosting the Smart People category. It is a recognition of Belun’s effort in preventive healthcare, tackling the world issue of the aging population and safeguarding the lives of the elderly and people with disabilities during the pandemic outbreak in Hong Kong.

“We are very honored to contribute to safeguarding the weakest link in our community during the COVID-19 pandemic. Our dream is to bring Hong Kong home-grown ICT solutions to serve the world’s aging population.” shared Raymond, co-founder of Belun Technology.

Belun team won the award with its vital sign monitoring system

The Smart People Award of the HKICTA 2022 is established to recognize innovative development of ICT products/solutions or ICT-enabled services that promote the rights of disadvantaged groups with their right to access ICT technology & address the challenges facing the aging society. “Belun^® remoVital monitoring system achieved all these objectives, protecting both the patients & caregivers, also help to reduce the pressure of the frontline during that critical pandemic.” shared by the judging panel.

Belun® remoVital, the vital sign monitoring system

Vital sign monitoring was crucial for infected elderly during the COVID-19 pandemic

“Our team transformed the sleep health platform to an Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) platform to combat COVID-19 as one community. The IoMT platform will become part of Belun’s preventive healthcare platform to help reduce the medical burdens due to the aging population & prevalence of chronic diseases.” Lydia Leung, Co-founder, and CEO of Belun Technology.

About Belun Technology

Besides Belun® remoVital, Belun has an outstanding award-winning track record, Belun® Ring winning the Hong Kong ICT Award 2018 – Award of the year, ICT Startup Grand Award, and Smart Living Grand Award. The company also won 3 awards in the Asia Pacific ICT Award 2018, including the Inclusions and Community Services – Wellbeing category (Winner), Start-Up of the Year – Business and Community (Merit), and Technology of the Year – Big Data Analytics (Merit).

Belun is a data technology company headquartered in Hong Kong with Preventive Healthcare Solutions powered by billions of health fingerprints and proprietary AI algorithms collected from global research in the US, Hong Kong, Singapore & Taiwan. Their medical-grade wearables & AI solutions (Belun Sleep Health System) for screening sleep health can evaluate treatment effectiveness for patients with chronic disease & predict health risks.

Video Showcase of the vital sign monitoring system: http://tiny.cc/Belun_remoVital

Continue Reading :

Part 1 – Digital Health Advancement

Part 2 – Digital Health Advancement

Digital Health advancement: From initial screening, in-patient care to prevention of re-admission in hospital management (Part II)

DM us if you are a potential partner!

Partnering with Belun :

Up to now, over 32 organizations, including HK hospital authority, medical groups, clinic groups, dentists, and elderly centers selected to use the Belun Sleep health platform, Belun® Ring and Sleep App, and Belun® remoVital monitoring system. Many doctors read our medical journal papers, including 1) “Belun® Ring Platform: a novel home sleep apnea testing system for assessment of obstructive sleep apnea” (https://jcsm.aasm.org/doi/10.5664/jcsm.8592) and 2) “Detection of obstructive sleep apnea using Belun Sleep Health System with neural network based algorithm and its combined use with STOP-Bang questionnaire” (https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0258040). If you would like to know more about how to adopt Belun’s solution in your organization or home use, pls feel free to contact us to schedule a meeting by filling in the form below:

Submit a form.

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Belun in Japan

Maggie Lo — Fri, 14 Oct 2022 12:44:16 +0000

(14th Oct 2022) Belun® Ring was shared by Dr Yue Weng Cheu (Clinical Director of DP Dental) on applications in Sleep Dentistry at a seminar organised by the Nippon Pediatric Development Society, on Linguadontics and the Power of the Tongue, today in Nagoya, Japan.

Dr Yue presenting in the seminar

Photos by DP Dental

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Continued Reading :

The Emerging Importance of Dental Sleep Medicine

The Emerging Importance of Dental Sleep Medicine (Part 2)

Partnering with Belun :

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