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. 

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.” 

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:

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 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.

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.

Photo credit: Sumeet Sethi

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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 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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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:

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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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. 

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.

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.

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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:

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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. 

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 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.” 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.

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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 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:

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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:

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Among a population of 1.46 billion, health-conscious Indians are keen to explore ways to stay fit. Belun hopes to spread the sleep health concept to stressful executives with wellness remaining top-of-mind but always time-deprived. We look forward to collaborating with the mindfulness guru at the yoga retreat or even a sleep master class. DM us if you are a potential partner!

Photo by Vansh, TENx2 & The Wellness. Co. 

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:

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AI is transforming healthcare 

AI assists healthcare professionals in better understanding the day-to-day patterns and needs of the people they care for. They can provide better feedback, guidance, and support to people to stay healthy. Technology applications and apps encourage healthier lifestyles in individuals. With MedTech, consumers can be in control of their health and well-being. AI could also identify abnormalities – or detect deterioration due to lifestyle, environmental, genomic, or other factors – thus providing early warning to individuals, resulting in early detection and better recovery.

Belun’s solution is evaluated on the AASM emerging technology website and mentioned in two sessions in SLEEP 2022. We are proud to be the only AI solution using PPG from medical-grade wearables for respiratory events and sleep stages. On the other hand, the Belun Sleep Platform comprises an FDA-cleared wearable ring and a clinically validated machine learning algorithm. The machine learning platform is built based SHHS database using data from all over the world to avoid dataset shifts. The platform has been validated in the US with different demographics and applied in various regions, including Southeast Asia, Australia, and Hong Kong, demonstrating its robustness. Belun is currently in collaboration with different universities studying the relationship of OSA with multiple chronic diseases such as stroke, hypertension, dementia, cardiovascular disease… 

About Sleep2022 : 

https://www.sleepmeeting.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/SLEEP-2022-Preliminary-Program.pdf

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 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:

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Cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia (CBT-I) is a short, structured, evidence-based approach to cure insomnia. CBT-I explores the connection between how we think, what we do, and how we sleep. It is a multi-component treatment because it combines several different approaches, involving cognitive intervention, behavioral intervention, and psychoeducational intervention. During treatment, a trained CBT-I provider helps identify thoughts, feelings, and behaviors contributing to insomnia symptoms. The provider will examine the shared beliefs and emotions to see if they’re accurate and review the behaviors to see if they promote sleep. The process aims to clarify or reframe misconceptions and challenges in a way that is more conducive to restful sleep. Treatment often takes 6-8 sessions, although the length may vary depending on a person’s needs. 

CBT-I is a collaborative process, and the skills learned in sessions require practice. Homework is a common component of treatment.

Assignments in-between sessions may involve:

• Keeping a sleep diary.
• Practicing questioning automatic thoughts or beliefs when they arise.
• Improving sleep hygiene practices.

Access the patients’ sleep architecture
Belun® Ring can become a patient’s digital sleep diary. It records what happened every night. Does the patient have insomnia because they cannot fall asleep quickly, do not sleep well, or have difficulty falling asleep again after waking up? Adopting the ring empowers the doctor with quality data (Belun’s sleep data is medical grade) to determine the cause of insomnia more accurately, instead of relying solely on the patient’s description out of sheer memory or guessing. The ring is a digital tool providing scientific data to support diagnosis, thus improving clinical decision-making.

About Sleep2022 : 

https://www.sleepmeeting.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/SLEEP-2022-Preliminary-Program.pdf

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 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 the form below:

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Cardiovascular disease (CVD) susceptibility is influenced by physiology, genetics, and exposure. Physiology includes (1) Autonomic nervous system (ANS) responses: CV responses to respiratory events, arrhythmia, ischemia, and cardiac output; and (2) Sleep State dynamics. Genetics includes inflammation and angiogenesis, while exposures include smoking, diet, physical activity, etc.

Precision medicine has been a hot topic. During the talk, Susan Redline shared her vision of how “gender differences” can be a step towards precision sleep medicine. How additional parameters, including ANS response during respiratory events, hypoxic burden, and delta heart rate, can more accurately predict CVD risks. Dr. Redline concluded the keynote by calling for action in improving metrics that robustly identify individuals at risk for OSA-related CVD, including endotypes, physiological response markers, e.g., ANS, hypoxic burdens, delta heart rate, genetics, gender, etc. Last is the need and value of multi-disciplinary teamwork in physiology, epidemiology, genetics, and implementation science. Empowered by the FDA-cleared wearable (Belun® Ring) and its proprietary machine learning algorithms, the Belun Sleep Platform is capable of computing both the AHI of the users and the ANS response throughout the night, reflecting users’ ANS response to respiratory events. In addition, hypoxic burdens and delta heart rate will be new features in the product roadmap, which concur with Dr. Redline’s outlook.

About Sleep2022 : 

https://www.sleepmeeting.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/SLEEP-2022-Preliminary-Program.pdf

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 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 out the form below:

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