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In pediatric patients, continuous temperature monitoring can simplify patient care while offering reliable fever detection. This study compared temperature measurements taken with TempTraq to traditional tympanic measurements in 41 pediatric patients. TempTraq measurements were highly correlated to tympanic measurements, and fever detection was consistently sensitive and specific. Additionally, caregivers...

While the COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the value of technology in the healthcare industry, the applications of many of these technologies span far beyond the pandemic. Remote, continuous temperature monitoring, for example, continues to gain momentum as a tool to identify fevers earlier than the standard of care in...

Blue Spark Technologies is one of nine organizations joining Medidata’s expanded Sensor Cloud Network, which aims to overcome barriers limiting the full adoption of medical sensors––including data integration and standardization. This, in turn, could fuel the development of new digital biomarkers and more advanced algorithms to process healthcare data...

We present a case series of three febrile episodes in neutropenic pediatric cancer patients who wore a Food and Drug Administration approved high-frequency temperature monitoring (HFTM) wearable device (WD) at home. The WD detected fever events when temperature monitoring by thermometer did not detect fever or was not feasible...

April 7, 2022 – Boston, MA – Carevive Systems (Carevive), the leading oncology-focused health technology company centered on understanding and improving the cancer patient experience, announced today a partnership with Blue Spark Technologies, a leader and an innovator in wearable wireless medical device solutions. The study will integrate Carevive’s expertise in Patient Reported Outcomes (ePROs)...

CLEVELAND (May 19, 2021) — Blue Spark Technologies, Inc. today announced that Bristol Myers Squibb (BMS, NYSE: BMY) will use its TempTraq wearable Bluetooth continuous body temperature monitoring platform in a U.S observational trial to monitor patients across multiple BMS CAR T assets prior to and following CAR T patients’ infusion with the cell therapy....

CLEVELAND (January 19, 2020) — Blue Spark Technologies, Inc. today announced that Adam Perer has joined its TempTraq advisory board. The advisory board consists key leaders from the medical, tech and business communities and helps drive strategic initiatives within Blue Spark. Perer is assisting Blue Spark to build out new, innovative, features...

CLEVELAND (June 10, 2020) — Blue Spark Technologies, Inc. today announced that its TempTraq® wearable temperature monitor — a disposable, wireless patch that continuously monitors patient temperature — has been deemed compatible with the Battlefield Assisted Trauma Distributed Observation Kit (BATDOK™) remote patient monitoring software. This point-of-injury monitoring and documentation tool...

CLEVELAND (April 20, 2020) — To protect health care workers, patients and families, and help flatten the curve of COVID-19’s progression, University Hospitals (UH), one of the largest health care systems in Ohio, will begin to expand the use of TempTraq from Blue Spark Technologies to specific areas within...

CLEVELAND — March 10, 2020 — With the rapid spread of the new coronavirus, COVID-19, monitoring temperatures of infected or exposed patients is a major focus for healthcare organizations worldwide. However, with heightened infection control procedures and quarantines, sharing traditional thermometers among multiple patients is difficult. To address this...