WANDA HEALTH JOINS INNOVATORS’ NETWORK AT AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION CENTER FOR HEALTH TECHNOLOGY & INNOVATION American Heart Association consortium advances development of evidence-based health tech

London, 27 March 2024 – Wanda Health (‘Wanda’ or ‘the Company’), the intelligent platform for Remote Patient Monitoring and Virtual Care has joined the American Heart Association Center for Health Technology & Innovation’s (the Center) Innovators’ Network. The Center is focused on building and fostering health technology relationships to develop innovative and scalable solutions.

The Innovators’ Network is a consortium connecting entrepreneurs, providers, researchers and payers to advance cardiovascular and brain health innovation. Innovators’ Network members also have the opportunity to access the Association’s digital evidence-based scientific guidelines and clinical recommendations as they develop digital healthcare technologies. Members collaborate with the Center in different ways, including building models for clinical outcome studies, which lowers the significant cost of developing those studies independently, helping connect the science to technology and providing evidence that a digital platform improves healthcare outcomes – a key concern for providers and payers.

“The Center aims to advance the rapid, efficient and effective development of healthcare technology,” said Robert A. Harrington, M.D., FAHA, volunteer past president of the American Heart Association (2019-2020), chair of the American Heart Association’s Health Tech Advisory Group for the Center, the Stephen and Suzanne Weiss Dean of Weill Cornell Medicine and provost for medical affairs of Cornell University. “Joining the Innovators’ Network gives members the opportunity to leverage the consortium and work toward broadening and deepening their engagement in this arena.”

Tom Smith, Chief Executive Officer of Wanda Health, commented, “Today’s announcement is the second such significant collaboration we have entered into recently and further affirms our position in the RPM market. I believe it is a vote of confidence for remote care delivery as a whole and the impact it can make in supporting patients. We believe that making use of our platform’s ability to aggregate biometric, symptomatic and behavioural data supports better disease management and quality of life for our patients. The AHA is an organisation that touches the lives of many people and being able to work closely with them is a major milestone for our business.”

About the Partnership

Membership in the Center for Health Technology & Innovation Innovators’ Network supports EMV Capital-backed Wanda in helping to advance the rapid, efficient and effective development of healthcare technology, as an important part of the Company’s offering is providing clinical guideline content. This  membership allows Wanda the opportunity to leverage the consortium and work toward broadening and deepening its engagement with like minds who want to develop innovative and scalable solutions, helping to better meet the specific needs of patients with cardiac conditions.