May 3, 2022 – Masimo marks its 33rd anniversary today by announcing the limited market release of the W1™ health watch for consumers. The first of its kind, the Masimo W1 offers accurate, continuous measurements and actionable health insights – from the leader in hospital pulse oximetry – in a personal, discreet, lifestyle-friendly wrist-worn wearable. Building on Masimo’s decades of leadership in creating revolutionary noninvasive blood parameter monitoring solutions, W1 provides accurate, continuous monitoring of multiple health parameters – including oxygen saturation (SpO2), pulse rate, perfusion index, PVi®, and respiration rate, alongside step count and fall detection.
Incorporated on May 2, 1989, as a garage startup dedicated to solving the “unsolvable” problem of inaccurate and unreliable conventional pulse oximetry under real-life conditions such as patient movement, Masimo and its breakthrough Measure-through Motion and Low Perfusion™ SET® pulse oximetry today touch hundreds of millions of lives around the world each year. SET® pulse oximetry has been shown in more than 100 independent studies to outperform other pulse oximetry technologies and is the only pulse oximetry shown in numerous large studies – involving more than 300,000 infants – to improve critical congenital heart disease (CCHD) screening in newborns. SET® pulse oximetry has also been shown to improve outcomes for patients on opioids in post-surgical wards, reduce eye damage and blindness in the neonatal intensive care unit, and reduce mortality among COVID patients remotely monitored at home. Through Masimo’s continued focus on innovation and improvement, SET® has evolved to feature the industry’s highest accuracy specifications, on the new RD line of patient sensors; become tetherless, with the secure Bluetooth®-equipped continuous Radius PPG™; and now, as the foundational technology driving the W1, has become a truly lifestyle-friendly technology for consumers outside hospitals.
With this consumer release of W1, Masimo is bringing its expertise in medical monitoring, connectivity, and automation to consumers looking to take control of their personal health, including those wanting to fine-tune their athletic training and recovery, the quality of their sleep, and their overall physiological status. Paired via secure Bluetooth to the Masimo Personal Health smartphone app, W1 provides continuous health data and guidance with accuracy heretofore unknown in a wrist-based device, unlocking meaningful, actionable insights – all in the convenient and discreet form of a durable watch.
In addition to use by consumers, W1 is also available outside the U.S. for telehealth applications, benefiting from Masimo’s expertise not only in noninvasive monitoring but in hospital connectivity and automation innovations. For patients recovering at home after surgery or illness, as well as patients with chronic conditions (such as heart failure, COPD, or cancer), W1 represents a convenient, reliable remote patient monitoring and telehealth solution enabling clinicians to keep track of their patients’ physiological status from afar, even as patients go about everyday tasks at home. A natural complement to the Masimo SafetyNet® remote patient monitoring platform, W1 enables wireless transmission of patient data to the Masimo SafetyNet smartphone app and Masimo’s secure data cloud.