History

Key milestones of BIOTRONIK Home Monitoring^®

BIOTRONIK Home Monitoring looks back to more than a decade of pioneering achievements. Over the years we have reached a number of innovative milestones: from the introduction of the first remote monitoring system in 2000, to the first internet-based system, to the most advanced website with intelligent traffic light design. And we are just as determined to set the pace for the next decades with new diagnostic and sensor technologies.
 

2000
First implantation of a wireless BIOTRONIK Home Monitoring
device using mobile technology and technical feasibility studies
 

2002
Worldwide introduction as the first and only FDA & CE approved system for remote monitoring in pacemaker and ICD patients

 

2003
First internet based Home Monitoring system and new wireless and cellular transmitter for early detection and enhanced patient safety

 

2006
Bidirectional telemetry and IEGM-Online HD^® enable significant increase in data volume for complete remote monitoring

 

2008
Landmark TRUST trial demonstrates that BIOTRONIK Home Monitoring safely reduces in-office-follow-ups and provides early detection of arrhythmic events

 

2009
Global launch of the new BIOTRONIK Home Monitoring with an intelligent traffic light system for efficient and convenient patient care

First & only remote monitoring system with FDA & CE approvals for safe reduction of in-office-follow-ups and early detection

 

2010
Ten years of excellence in BIOTRONIK Home Monitoring with new unique diagnostic and sensor technologies for advanced heart failure management