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blogTowards information security certification
Information security is of paramount importance to smartQare. We want to be sure that all data within our company cannot fall into the wrong hands. Laura Pomstra, together with our security officer, is now working on obtaining NEN7510 and ISO27001 certification for information security in healthcare.
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blogStudent job at smartQare: developing viQtor and yourself!
Our team is constantly refining and developing the medical technology behind viQtor. In this process, we also receive support from students. For example, last year Frank Boon, Head of Research, could count on Simone de Jonge, a student at the Technical University in Eindhoven. She did the research for a new measurement within our 24/7 monitoring solution.
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blogThe story of Fred Hoogeveen
Fred Hoogeveen (72) was always a real sportsman. He lived a healthy and active life. Until an accident turned his life upside down. Now he is paralyzed from the chest down. Yet he still gets the most out of his life every day.
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blogThe next step: focus on clinical validation
Now that our viQtor has the CE mark, we are building the next step: conducting applied clinical studies in medical practice. This proves the added value of our solution for 24-hour monitoring compared to the current clinical standard. Jeroen Kortsmit is responsible for this process. As Clinical Science Manager, he focuses on setting up the clinical validation strategy.
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blogQuality management system at the heart of medical marking
Souraya Verhaegen is our QA/RA manager and responsible for the quality control and regulation of our viQtor solution. Together with our users, she has the most important voice in our organization, because if Souraya rejects an idea, the plan will not go ahead. That is how important the quality system is in the development of a medical application.
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blogLUMC calibrates and validates oxygen saturation viQtor
The viQtor, our wearable for 24-hour monitoring, measures, among other things, the oxygen level in the blood. At the end of 2021, the LUMC, led by anesthesiologist Rutger van der Schrier, calibrated and validated the oxygen saturation measurements. With this, viQtor has taken an important step towards CE class IIa marking.
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blogA look behind the scenes at smartQare Operations
The viQtor solution is an ingenious interplay between the high-tech device that clients wear on the upper arm and a practical app for caregivers. Vital values are processed and communicated 24/7 in the background. We get a look behind the scenes in a conversation with our former COO, Paul Smilde.
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blogLet's meet: Henk Stapert, our new CTO
In the run-up to the market launch, we brought in former Philips healthcare innovation manager Henk Stapert PhD. As our new CTO, Stapert will focus on the technological path to the CE class IIB marking for medical devices based on the Medical Device Regulation (MDR) and the further development of our network care. Meet a driven innovator.
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blogElderly care: Mrs. Janssen is more than a patient
A circle is not complete until you close it. That is my motto and the story of my life at the same time. But this story is mainly about Mrs. Janssen, a lady with a chronic condition that needs care.