In this month’s Digital Health Roundup, Medtech Insight’s Reed Miller talks about Biotronik’s and AliveCor’s partnership, Marion Webb profiles three agetech companies, and Barnaby Pickering talks Swiss medtech awards and smart hospitals.

The companies will connect Biotronik’s implantable cardiac monitors with AliveCor’s personal electrocardiogram system to give physicians a more complete picture of their patients’ cardiac data.

The company reportedly abused an employee training program by funneling payments to favored physicians to encourage them to use Biotronik products.

The HeartInsight algorithm combines heart failure parameters into a predictive score and alerts physicians if a patient with an implanted ICD or CRT-D is at higher risk of hospitalization. Biotronik will roll out HeartInsight in Europe in April.