Remote Monitoring Open Call
Open call · Hosted by Cobalt Health. Eleven nurses open each morning with readings from nine thousand discharged patients, more than one shift can work through.
About this open call
What this event is about
Readings from thousands of monitored patients arrive faster than eleven nurses can read them, and the ones that matter look like the ones that do not. We want a ranked morning queue that puts the patients who are actually deteriorating at the top.
What we are looking for
Startups with a working risk model or triage tool that ranks patients from device readings and chart data, and can show what it does when a device goes quiet.
Problem statements
A queue longer than the shift
Eleven nurses open a morning list of home readings that would take three shifts to work through in order. Reading it by arrival time means the patient who needed a call at nine gets one at four.
Alerts nobody trusts
A threshold alarm fires on a cuff worn wrong as readily as on a failing heart, and a team that has cleared four hundred false ones stops reading the next. What we need is a rank with a reason attached, not another red flag.
The device that went quiet
A patient who stops sending readings disappears from every dashboard we have, and silence is often the first sign of trouble rather than the absence of it. Missing data has to move a patient up the list, not off it.
Evaluation criteria
100% weighted total
Timeline
- Jun 8, 2026
Entries open
The brief went out with a data dictionary and a synthetic month of readings.
- Aug 1, 2026
Read as they arrive
The monitoring leads score entries as they land rather than after the close, so an early entry gets an early read.
- Oct 14, 2026
Shortlist and a shift on the floor
Shortlisted teams sit with the monitoring team for a morning and see the real queue before anything is decided.
- Nov 4, 2026
Pilot decision
One team takes the paid pilot on the heart failure and COPD lists.
Sponsors & partners
Cobalt Health
Host
Plug and Play
Sourcing entrants
FAQs
Do we get patient data to build against?
No identifiable data before a pilot. Everyone who joins gets the data dictionary and a synthetic month of readings from the two lists we watch most closely; the live feed opens under a data agreement at pilot stage.
Does it have to be a regulated medical device?
A tool that ranks a nurse's queue usually is not one, but tell us how you are classified today and where that stands. Shortlisted teams are asked for it in writing, so answering now saves a fortnight later.
Would this replace the nurses' review?
No. The pilot is judged on whether the same eleven nurses reach the right patient earlier, so the tool ranks and explains and a nurse still makes the call.
Take part
Submit your entry before the deadline. Every entry is scored against the criteria above.