The German company of Medical Devices Dry launched the first scanner of portable body composition designed for primary care environments on Thursday. The product, called Alpha, seeks to provide primary care suppliers with a more precise image of your patient’s health.
Duration An annual examination, the usultular doctors verify the weight, height and vital of the patient. However, they have long used obsolete methods of measurement of body composition, such as the body mass index (BMI), which many health leaders have criticized for being a deceptive and biased tool racially to analyze the hahalto of a patient.
“As a result, suppliers cannot monitor and mark health health measures, such as the first signs of excess adiposity, muscle deterioration related to age and the total impact of the body of medicines such as GLP-1 in real time,” said Nina Crowley.
Dry is addressing this gap in attention by introducing the detection of body composition in primary care visits.
The Alfa scanner uses a method called bijelectric impedance analysis (BIA). The scanner passes a low -level electric current through the body because different tissues, such as fat, muscle and water, conduct electricity differently. When measuring resistance to this current, the dry device calculates the key components of body composition, including fat mass, muscle mass and hydration levels, Crowley explained.
The scan only takes 24 seconds and provides immediate results, he added.
Equipped with these data, primary care providers may have more significant discussions about patient’s health objectives, treatment options and lifestyle changes, said Crowley. He also pointed out that body composition scans can lead to an earlier intervention for conditions such as sarcopenia, obesity and metabolic disorders.
Dry competitors in the clinical degree BIA space include Inbody, Evolt, Tanita and Valhalla, Crowley said.
The company differs by delivering “the most precise body composition results” that explain the age, gender and ethnicity of patients, he said. He also highlighted the company’s integration skills.
“Dry products are specifically designed for clinical environments, designed to integrate sewing into existing workflows. This guarantees that suppliers can capture, interpret and act easily on the data of body composition within the realities of occupied healthy environments.
He pointed out that Dry has 65% of the global market share in the medical space and measurement measurement, which serves 110 different countries. Some of its biggest clients of health systems in the United States include Cleveland Clinic, Mayic Clinic, Kaiser Permanent and Nyu Langone Health.
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