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global eventsmartQare at ESICM LIVES 2026: continuous measurements, beyond the ICU
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blogWhy intermittent vital sign monitoring three times a day is no longer sufficient
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thought leadershipContinuous patient monitoring after Euroanaesthesia 2026: why the ward should be ready
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global eventEuroanaesthesia 2026: what the post-operative care conversation is actually about
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newssmartQare supports one of Europe’s largest hospital-at-home programs in region Stockholm
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newssmartQare and Cuviva Support Discovery Care at Home Programme in South Africa
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newsPRESSURE – Advancing Remote Cardiovascular Care Beyond the Hospital
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press releaseStrategic Partnership Announcement
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newsExciting News: Dr. Peter Ziese Joins smartQare as Strategic Medical Advisor
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newsNew Channel Partner: GrafiMedics BeLux
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thought leadershipredesigning care. reclaiming capacity.
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global eventZorg&ICT 2025
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news5,000 Patients Monitored with Healthdot 3.1 – A Milestone in the Future of Healthcare
5,000 patients. 5,000 lives. 5,000 moments of trust in the power of continuous monitoring.
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global eventsmartQare at ICT & Health World Conference 2025
From January 28–30, 2025, smartQare participated in the ICT & Health World Conference in Maastricht, alongside Philips and GrafiMedics. As one of the leading global healthcare events, the conference brought together policymakers, healthcare professionals ...
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thought leadershipredesigning care. empowering every patient.
What can we do to overcome the significant challenges in redesigning care pathways and encouraging acceptance of innovative, patient-centered models in healthcare?
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thought leadershipredefing Qare. empowering lives.
What if continuous monitoring could give back time to clinical staff allowing them to focus on providing care, ensuring patients receive the attention they truly deserve?
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newsannouncing a New Partnership
We’re excited to share that today at Medica 2024, one of the larget MedTech trade fairs, smartQare signed a distribution agreement with Cardiac Services (part of Uniphar Medtech).
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global eventMobile Healthcare Festival 2024
On November 6, 2024, smartQare, together with our partners GrafiMedics and Philips, participated in the 13th Mobile Healthcare Festival in Den Bosch.
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newsviQtor Receives Thai-FDA Approval: Advancing Patient Monitoring in Thailand
We are excited to share that viQtor, our advanced continuous patient monitoring solution, has officially received Thai-FDA approval! This milestone marked an important step in expanding our presence in Thailand
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newssmartQare and Vingmed Group sign distribution agreement
smartQare is pleased to announce a distribution agreement with the Vingmed Group, a leading provider of advanced medical equipment in the Nordic region. This collaboration will expand ...
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newspartnership smartQare and GrafiMedics
smartQare and GrafiMedics, a key supplier of medical equipment in the Netherlands, have signed a distribution agreement
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press releasepress release Philips
Royal Philips (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHIA), a global leader in health technology, today announced a strategic partnership to integrate smartQare’s advanced solution, viQtor, with Philips’ world-leading clinical patient monitoring platforms.
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newsstrategic partnership with Philips
smartQare announces strategic partnership with Philips to improve Remote Patient Monitoring solutions for healthcare providers and patients around the world.
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global eventusa here we come...
Since 1967, CES Las Vegas has become the global stage for innovation. Every year, more than 180,000 participants from more than 160 countries gather here. Technological innovations, both for B2C and B2B, are showcased at CES to potential customers, partners, investors and global media.
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newsEuropean support for further development viQtor!
We are proud to announce that smartQare has been awarded a new R&D grant: Pressure, a 3-year (partly European) grant under the OpZuid (EFRO) programme.
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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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newsUpdate on our living labs and studies
We are fully engaged in studies and living labs in which we test the use of viQtor for a specific target group; in a specific situation, together with clinical partners. This results in very valuable information on the basis of which we can further develop viQtor and on the basis of which the clinical partners get a better picture of how and where monitoring can add value in their operational processes and for their patient target group(s).
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newssmartQare in the media
We are on a mission! To improve healthcare. Offer a solution to current capacity shortages. Be able to start preventing care.
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global eventMinnesota and Seattle trip report
In the week of 16-20 April, de Brabantse Ontwikkelingsmaatschappij (BOM), OostNL and Liof organised a trade mission to Medical Alley in Minnesota in the US. 17 Innovative MedTech companies were invited to an inspiring programme in the premier MedTech hotspot of the US, and smartQare was there!
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newsInternal study on wearing comfort of viQtor completed
When you see the advanced technology hidden in our viQtor, the bracelet in which it is worn seems only of secondary importance.
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newssmartQare member of Barcelona Health Hub
Since March 2023, smartQare has been admitted as a member of the Barcelona Health Hub.
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newsLife Sciences & Health mission to Denmark and Sweden
With the CE certification obtained by smartQare in August 2022, viQtor can be used as a monitoring solution for healthcare within the EU.
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newsGrants for further development viQtor
Wonderful news: smartQare has been awarded two grants
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newsfirst distribution agreement signed
The first distribution agreement is a fact! Our first distributor is Airo Health Care.
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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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newsNew studies
We are fully engaged in the market validation of viQtor. This month we will start monitoring COPD patients from General Practition Practice Meuwissen, van Ballegooijen and Vosseberg in Wageningen.
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global eventCES Las Vegas 2023
At the invitation of the Ministry of Economy and Climate, we participated in CES Las Vegas 2023. CES (Consumer Electronics Show from January 5 to 8 last year) has been a successful fair with 115,000 visitors mainly from the US and Asia.
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newsupdate hires
In previous newsletters we have shared job openings. We are pleased with the new colleagues we have since welcomed.
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newsreview 2022
smartQare has finished a wonderful year 2022. A selection of highlights the team looks back on;
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newsviQtor in the field: the third living lab has started
To experience how viQtor works in real life, smartQare sets up living labs at healthcare organizations. There, clients and healthcare professionals discover the added value of our 24-7 monitoring solution. For the first living lab, we have entered into a partnership with Sensire, a large and innovative care institution in the Netherlands, and Medical Service Centre NAAST-ZCN. Project manager Reinier Vrolijk and nursing researcher Judith Douma share their initial findings.
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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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Market validation
With the CE marking, viQtor is ready for use. The first phase is now to demonstrate the value of viQtor in practice in relatively small-scale pilots. To this end, we enter into partnerships with various (innovative) healthcare institutions.
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global eventviQtor is CES ready
We are very proud to be one of the 70 most promising Tech startups and scale-ups selected by the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate participating at the 2024 edition of the Consumer Electronic Show (CES) in Las Vegas.
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newsviQtor goes West, admission to the US market
On November 30, we submitted all documents for admission of viQtor to the US market. No fewer than 121 documents and reports have been prepared for this purpose
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newssmartQare is coalition partner in the 'vliegwiel coalitie'
SmartQare has been a coalition partner in the 'vliegwiel coalitie' since this month. The 'vliegwiel coalitie' is a partnership between patients & clients (representatives), healthcare providers/care providers, health insurers and suppliers. The coalition has about 50 partners and this number is growing every month.
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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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newssmartQare App is now available in the App Store
viQtor has been developed as a complete solution for 24/7 monitoring: a wearable for the upper arm, a web platform with dashboards and an app.
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Medical devices vs consumer devices
At smartQare we are regularly asked how our solution differs from the smartwatch or wristband. CE certification is required in Europe for use in the medical domain.
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smartQare to CES 2023 in Las Vegas!
smartQare will be part of the #NLatCES mission 2023. CES, the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas is the world’s most influential tech trade show, January 5-8, 2023.
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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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newsviQtor is CE certified!
We are incredibly proud that as of today August 24, viQtor is one of the first continuous monitoring solutions in Europe to be CE class IIa certified based on the Medical Device Regulation (MDR). The CE certification has been awarded for the complete solution: the device with the software (platform).
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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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financing round of €3 million completed
We have successfully completed a €3 million funding round for the medical validation and certification of our unique 24/7 (home) monitoring & diagnostics solution, viQtor. Read more...
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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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newssmartQare reaches milestone and is EN ISO13485:2016 certified
NEN-EN-ISO 13485:2016 is an international set of standards and specifies requirements for a quality management system for an organization that supplies medical devices and related services. Read more...
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viQtor in Mobile Healthcare Innovation Café
During the Mobile Healthcare Innovation Café, leading healthcare professionals gathered to discuss the future of eHealth. Our CEO Walter van Kuijen was also present.