Seer Medical’s Mark Cook, in conjunction with The Bionics Institute, St Vincent’s Melbourne and the University of Melbourne has launched a new Australian venture to develop a breakthrough monitoring device to improve management of epilepsy and seizure-related conditions – Minder ™. The successful venture with an initial A$3.65 million investment from Cochlear Ltd and other…
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Dean and Rory presented at the Novartis Digital Health Summit in Sydney on the 3rd of May. Dean talked about how our ambulatory EEG-ECG service applies digital technologies to transfer neurological, cardiac and sleep monitoring from the hospital to the home, and streamline the diagnostic process for clinicians. Rory presented a series of case studies…
Dean went to the AusMedTech meeting in Adelaide this month to participate in two panels. In the first session, Dean represented Australia’s National Digital Health – ANDHealth – Incentive and spoke about Seer Medical’s experience in the program. In the second session, he spoke about the convergence of technology in healthcare alongside representatives from Uni…
Seer Medical team are on the news talking about a trial for a brain implant to stop seizures. Watch the video here. The first person enrolled in the trial is based in Melbourne and has been using SeerGP to monitor her seizure activity.
Seer co-founder Professor Mark Cook discusses advances in seizure forecasting using state of the art research. The data we collect through SeerGP can be used to detect patterns and cycles in people’s seizures and eventually provide advance warning about their current risk of having a seizure. Read the full TED article here
Seer Medical conducted at-home monitoring for people with severe epilepsy taking part in a trial for medicinal cannabis to reduce their seizure rates Read the full article here
Researchers from Seer Medical were recently involved in a collaboration with the University of Melbourne to build a mobile seizure forecasting system. The project was led by Mark Cook and Dean Freestone with the University of Melbourne. Seer team members Pip Karoly and Ewan Nurse contributed to the development of new seizure forecasting tools. Read the…
Seer team members Pip Karoly and Dean Freestone contributed to an audiovisual art piece that is featured at the National Gallery of Victoria 2018 Triennial See A Day with Epilepsy online now Source: http://a-day-with-epilepsy.surge.sh/
On the 20th September 2017 Seer Medical was announced as one of the winners of ANDHealth’s accelerator grant. This grant will support Seer Medical to expand and grow our reach to patients with epilepsy around the world.
Pip Karoly and Dean Freestone have published new research on seizure forecasting in Brain Journal of Neurology. Source: https://academic.oup.com/brain/article-abstract/140/8/2169/4032453