Hospital-grade breathing surveillance, after the patient leaves the hospital.
Capnesity is a wireless, AI-enabled wearable that measures carbon dioxide in every breath, along with oxygen, heart rate, temperature and motion, around the clock. When a patient starts to decline, it sends an alarm code to a monitoring partner such as Connect America or Life Alert, whose response center takes it from there, before a small change becomes a readmission.
Patients stay in the hospital just to be watched.
Patients with COPD, asthma, pneumonia, heart failure or opioid overdose risk are often kept in a hospital bed for respiratory monitoring alone. Send them home without it, and early decline goes unseen until it turns into an emergency visit. Pulse oximetry alone can miss it, and it reads less accurately on darker skin.
U.S. emergency department visits for COPD each year
U.S. hospital admissions for COPD each year
Monitoring for the full prescribed period, outside the hospital walls
COPD figures as cited in Capnesity's pilot evaluation with the Regional One Health Center for Innovation. Asthma and pneumonia show similar volumes.
A capnograph that never stops reporting.
Built for the gap between discharge and recovery. An infrared CO₂ sensor at the nose and mouth, worn with a nasal cannula, turns each breath into a capnogram. An earlobe sensor adds oxygen saturation and beat-to-beat heart rate, and the device also tracks temperature and motion.
| Change detected | Duration | Who is alerted |
|---|---|---|
| Subtle | Brief | Documented only |
| Subtle | Prolonged | Monitoring partner |
| Notable | Brief | Monitoring partner |
| Notable | Prolonged | Monitoring partner |
| Severe | Brief | Alarm code to monitoring partner |
Capnesity's alert decision tiers. Thresholds are set per patient by the prescribing clinician.
Measure every breath
End-tidal CO₂, the full capnograph waveform, SpO₂, heart rate, temperature and motion, recorded continuously.
Send to the Capnesity Cloud
The wearable connects by Bluetooth to a base station or a phone, which sends data over LTE or Wi-Fi to the HIPAA-compliant Capnesity Cloud.
Decide how serious it is
The safety alert layer weighs how large the change is and how long it lasts, using the tiers in the table.
Hand off to a monitoring partner
Capnesity sends the alarm code to a monitoring partner such as Connect America or Life Alert. The partner's response center handles the response. Capnesity does not contact the patient, family or EMS itself.
The device patients wear.
Two phases, starting where licensed staff already are.
Hospital to assisted living and nursing homes
The hospital discharges the patient with a Capnesity device to a facility that has licensed personnel on site.
- Alarm codes go to the monitoring partner
- Licensed staff on site are close at hand for the response
- Hospitals free beds sooner without losing sight of the patient
- Covered by Capnesity's first FDA 510(k) submission, for facilities with licensed staff
- Builds the clinical record for wider use
Hospital to the patient's own home
The same device goes home with the patient, with alarm codes routed to monitoring partners such as Connect America and Life Alert.
- Alarm codes delivered to established home-response services
- Every discharge becomes a monitored patient
- Reaches rural patients far from a hospital bed
- Covered by a second FDA 510(k) submission, for home use
Built for everyone responsible after discharge.
Hospitals
Discharge respiratory patients sooner, open beds for new admissions, and prevent the readmissions that bring penalties. Remote monitoring creates a new billable service line.
Remote patient monitoring: CPT 99453, 99454, 99091, 99457, 99458
Assisted living and nursing homes
Accept higher-acuity respiratory patients with confidence. Alarm codes go to a monitoring partner before a resident is in crisis, which helps avoid transfers back to the hospital.
Supports facility monitoring and care-coordination workflows
Home monitoring partners
Monitoring partners such as Connect America and Life Alert receive Capnesity alarm codes with GPS location, and their response centers contact the patient, family and emergency services. Each hospital discharge brings a new monitored member into their network at no acquisition cost.
Alarm code + GPS integration for response centers
Insurers
Catching respiratory decline early keeps members out of the emergency department and the hospital, which lowers the cost of their care.
Est. $10,000–15,000 saved per avoided admission
Engineers and clinicians who know how hospitals adopt.
Dr. Joshua Spicer
Chief Executive OfficerLeads Capnesity's strategy and its adoption by hospitals and care facilities.
Jeff Gibson
Founder · InventorInventor of Capnesity's continuous capnography and remote notification technology, with 11 patents in various stages. Previously founded Varsgen.
Dr. Greg Auner
Chief Science OfficerProfessor of Surgery and Biomedical Engineering at Wayne State University School of Medicine and director of its Smart Sensors and Integrated Microsystems program. Nearly 35 patents and 300+ publications. Co-founder of Seraph Biosciences. Leads the science behind Capnesity's diagnostic AI.
Dr. Ryan Sexton
Chief Medical OfficerChief medical officer of Northeastern Vermont Regional Hospital and president of the Vermont Medical Society. Board certified in emergency medicine and EMS, and a member of the Vermont Board of Medical Practice.
Robert Panah
Chief Financial OfficerExecutive in insurance and financial services.
Also on the team: Mike Thomas (commercialization), Runako Godfrey (technology) and William Parks, Esq. (legal and IP, 100+ startups and 1,000+ patent applications).
Bring Capnesity to your patients.
Hospitals, care facilities, monitoring partners and investors: email us and we will set up a conversation.