PODCAST: Masimo CEO Bets Smart Glasses Are The Future Of Patient Monitoring
Executive Summary
When Masimo chairman and CEO Joe Kiani saw Atheer's smart glasses and virtual reality platform, he thought the possibilities for patient monitoring were endless. Now the two companies have joined forces and are moving quickly to turn virtual reality into a clinical reality with a prototype interactive display and novel patient monitoring system that they say has the power to transform health care and the market for patient monitoring, which is estimated at more than $2 billion in the US alone according to an upcoming report from Medtech Insight.
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