The Journal of mHealth Vol 3 Issue 1 (Feb/Mar 2016) | Page 33

Isansys: No More Wires

Isansys: No More Wires
“Back in 2001… no-one had any idea what we were
talking about.” - Keith Errey.
By Akil Benjamin
Isansys is a company that digitises life at both home and in acute
care settings. With its precision patient monitoring platform,
Isansys’ Patient Status Engine measures every heartbeat, breath,
variation in body temperature and changing oxygen saturations.
Using wireless monitoring, Isansys has developed a technology
which no longer ties patients to the hospital bed or tangles them
within over-sensitive and sometimes temperamental wires and
cords, but instead allows them the freedom to heal in a safe
environment.
Keith Errey is the CEO of Isansys. After co-founding Toumaz in
2000 and establishing its healthcare arm, Sensium, Keith, a physicist by training and entrepreneur by nature, then started Isansys
in 2010 with Rebecca Weir, a colleague from Toumaz and the
only life scientist in a company of electronic and software engineers. Their mission was to deliver a vision of healthcare which
hadn’t yet been commercially realised anywhere in the world.
Though conceived in 2010, the technology required to deliver
the initial MVP Isansys needed to secure their first client existed
nearly a decade before. For example, biomedical engineers and
researchers from John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford had developed pre F