Xandar Kardian, a rapidly-growing, Toronto-based company that develops contactless health monitoring solutions powered by digital ultra wide-band radar signal processing, officially announced a strategic partnership with TapestryHealth, a multi-specialty healthcare practice that utilizes advanced technology to provide face-to-face evaluation and treatment at the patient’s bedside in skilled nursing facilities and other post-acute environments. The partnership between Xandar Kardian and TapestryHealth focuses on leveraging Xandar Kardian’s revolutionary radar-centric technology to support specialized remote patient monitoring for skilled nursing facilities, using autonomous and continuous vital sign management. Recently, results from a pilot program deploying Xandar Kardian’s UWB radar devices at a skilled nursing facility showcased a groundbreaking discovery for patient monitoring and prediction of early deterioration. Working with TapestryHealth on a pilot basis, Xandar Kardian began deploying its sensors at a New York state skilled nursing facility in November 2021. Data provided from autonomous, continuous, and contact-free monitoring of patient vital signs through UWB radar showed that, even when respiratory rate is stable, a patient’s elevated resting heart rate can be used as a predictor of an upcoming medical crisis up to seven days in advance. This ability to monitor resting heart rate continuously and accurately with Xandar Kardian devices, particularly while a patient is sleeping, has provided a window of time to proactively intervene before severe medical emergencies strike – drastically reducing the readmission rates and ER visits of TapestryHealth patients while simultaneously minimizing staff workload.
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“One of the most unique aspects of Xandar Kardian‘s technology that sets it apart from other patient monitoring devices is that it can identify when an occupant is resting, making it especially beneficial when looking for meaningful changes in their baseline vital signs to provide early deterioration detection,” said Sam Yang, co-founder and Managing Director of Xandar Kardian. “If a patient’s heart rate or respiratory rate spikes while they are at rest, this is a strong indication of patient deterioration and can point to an oncoming occurrence of a serious medical event such as cardiac arrest. Also, only sustained deterioration, including elevation, of 110 BPM or higher for 2 hours or longer was flagged as a cause for concern in this pilot program, so we are able to avoid alert fatigue and inaccurate flagging. Ultimately, this technology saves time, money, and most importantly, patient lives.”