OMRON Healthcare India has announced its foray into the remote home heart monitoring and management segment via collaboration with Tricog – the Heart Health AI company focused on early diagnosis and management of heart disease in the Indian market, the company's said in a joint statement on Tuesday

OMRON Healthcare India has announced its foray into the remote home heart monitoring and management segment via collaboration with Tricog – the Heart Health AI company focused on early diagnosis and management of heart disease in the Indian market, the company's said in a joint statement on Tuesday.

The collaboration aims to further improve the country’s cardiovascular disease management ecosystem with the launch of TriCare, a remote patient management platform combining the synergies of OMRON’s connected monitoring devices and Tricog’s AI-based health data analytical capabilities.

The companies aim to deliver technology that enables monitoring of heart conditions at home, and AI that enables timely interventions to focus on urgent & unmet needs that lead to excess mortality and morbidity. This includes scenarios of delayed detection of symptoms and diseases (for secondary healthcare level segment patients) that might cause cardiovascular events like heart failure amongst hypertensive patients, the company's statement read

India has the second-highest deaths from Cardiovascular Disease (CVD) globally. An estimated one in four adults in India has high blood pressure (Hypertension), with only 22.5 per cent of them with blood pressure under control, increasing their risk of Heart attacks or Myocardial Infarction (MI), Strokes or Cerebrovascular Accidents (CVA), Atrial Fibrillation (AF) and Heart Failure (HF).

45 per cent of people in India's 40-69 age group are at risk for Cardiovascular Disease, contributing to 27 per cent of all deaths.

The burden of Heart Failure in India is rapidly increasing, with an estimated prevalence of 1.3 to 4.6 million patients. 1.8 million patients are hospitalised every year, with a 1-year mortality of nearly 40 per cent. With less than 1 per cent of these patients receiving optimal medical management, the need to manage these patients remotely has immense potential.

“Further to collaborating with varied AI based healthcare applications in the blood pressure & personal healthcare monitoring domain, this is another significant step taken by OMRON to expand its presence in the home heart monitoring and management segment. With right partners like Tricog on board, we are optimistic of making a huge difference to the Indian cardiovascular healthcare space as we believe that measuring ECG at home and keeping the cardiologists informed real-time can surely reduce the incidence of cerebrovascular disease events compared to traditional hospital-based ECG measurement,” says Katsuyuki Yamamoto, Manager New Business & Marketing, OMRON Healthcare India.

"50 per cent of the 19 million deaths due to cardiovascular disease are preventable with early diagnosis and optimal management. With the launch of TriCare, our remote patient management platform, in collaboration with OMRON, for the very first time, we can put a virtual cardiologist in the home of every heart patient,” says Dr Charit Bhograj, Founder and CEO, Tricog Health.