Myant to Showcase Line-up of Heart Health Management Apparel and Textiles at CES 2020 to Democratize Access to Electrocardiography for All People Across Society

Myant to Showcase Line-up of Heart Health Management Apparel and Textiles at CES 2020 to Democratize Access to Electrocardiography for All People Across Society

TORONTO, January 6, 2020 – Myant Inc., the pioneers in Textile Computing™, will be showcasing a line-up of textile products that enable continuous and ambient heart health management at CES 2020 (January 7-10, Las Vegas), including apparel from the Skiin Connected Health & Wellness line which was honored as a winner in the Health & Wellness category of the CES 2020 Innovation Awards.

While electrocardiography, or the study of the electrical activity of the heart, has long been recognized as a crucial diagnostic modality in the management of overall health, access to cardiac diagnostics has long been restricted within the context of clinical settings, and offered only to those suffering from, or at significant risk of cardiac disease. Factors such as high cost of care and complexity in diagnostic devices have led to an approach towards heart health management that is largely reactive in nature as opposed to truly preventative.

Enabling Access to Heart Health Management for All via Everyday Clothing

Heart disease is still the leading cause of death in the world, and there is no current way to monitor the heart in an ambient, passive, seamless, and reliable manner - essential to preventative care. Myant’s mission is to create that connection to the human body, through everyday products that are already pervasive in our lives and continuously being used, in order to connect everyone, regardless of their age, gender or ability, and throughout all facets of their lives (i.e. sleep, work, play/fitness, etc.).

Leading healthcare experts like Dr. Suraj Kapa, a cardiologist and medical innovation expert from the Mayo Clinic who advises on healthcare strategy for Myant, agree on the potential for textile to transform the way care is delivered and managed. “Scaling access to medical diagnostics will be necessary to improve global health – novel tools and technologies like wearable textiles holds the potential value to democratize healthcare in a way that has never previously been imagined,” noted Dr. Kapa.

Myant has been working to develop textiles that can sense the electrical activity of the heart, and deploying these textiles in different form factors (i.e. clothing, furniture, car seats, etc.). By distributing the data captured by these interfaces through a cloud-based, AI-enabled platform, Myant is ushering in a model for heart health management that is continuous, ambient, preventative, and democratized. This will create continuous access to best-in-class heart health machine learning algorithms, something that is currently confined to leading hospitals and cardiologists.

Myant will be bringing these products to market under its connected brand Skiin. The line-up of apparel can record ECG data from multiple points of the body to obtain different ECG vectors resulting in more accurate and continuous heart monitoring. The Skiin line-up of interfaces to be showcased at CES 2020 includes:

Distributing ECG and Other Biometric Insights via Social Connectedness App, Deepening Connection with Circle of Care to Address the Social Determinants of Health

Human interaction and social connectedness are fundamental human needs, and an individual’s health and well-being is known to be intrinsically connected to these social determinants. While people in the past lived in tighter knit communities and thus were able to stay more connected and better care for each other, our social connections in the modern world are less physically connected and more dispersed. Myant’s mission is to use technology to help alleviate this problem, and connect people to themselves, their communities, AI and the world around them.