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Wellspring Medical to Promote Heartcheck(TM) ECG Device Sales and ECG Reading Services to the Health and Wellness Markets in the USA
TORONTO, ON / ACCESSWIRE / March 3, 2016 / CardioComm Solutions, Inc. (TSXV: EKG) ("CardioCo...
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[{"type":"text","content":"Wellspring Medical to Promote Heartcheck(TM) ECG Device Sales and ECG Reading Services to the Health and Wellness Markets in the USATORONTO, ON / ACCESSWIRE / March 3, 2016 / CardioComm Solutions, Inc. (TSXV: EKG) (\"CardioComm Solutions\" or the \"Company\"), a global medical provider of consumer heart monitoring and medical electrocardiogram (\"ECG\") software solutions, today announced it has entered into a sales and marketing agreement with Wellspring Medical, LLC. (\"Wellspring\") for the HeartCheck™ Handheld ECG devices and SMART Monitoring ECG services into health and wellness verticals in the United States in 2016.\nWellspring is launching a \"Screening and Prevention\" program in partnership with retail pharmacies across the United States that will allow pharmacists to offer cardiac and pulmonary disease screening to their customers. The introduction of the HeartCheck™ ECG devices will provide pharmacists a proven method to monitor the ECGs of people diagnosed with cardiac and/or pulmonary disease, to assist in identifying early onset of cardiac disease for at-risk patients, to follow people for potential adverse drug events related to medications they have been prescribed and to encourage physician follow-up evaluations.\nPharmacies will offer the ECG screening services under a fee-for-service plan that will be coordinated by Wellspring. Wellspring will provide HeartCheck™ ECG devices for use by pharmacists to take a 30 second ECG recording (a cardiac rhythm strip) to monitor for the presence or absence of an arrhythmia. After ECGs are recorded, they are uploaded to CardioComm Solutions' cloud-based SMART Monitoring ECG service. Physician interpreted ECG reports will be returned back to Wellspring's participating pharmacies within 24 hours. To facilitate this new program, CardioComm Solutions has partnered with California-based CompuMed Inc. to provide board-certified cardiologist ECG interpretations. Wellspring will also provide retail pharmacies access to the HeartCheck™ ECG PEN (consumer sales) and the HeartCheck™ Handheld ECG monitors (prescription required) for sale to retail pharmacy customers.\nCardioComm Solutions' HeartCheck™ products are small electrocardiograph devices cleared as Class II medical devices that are easy to use, small, portable, and can record, save and...