Devicare, a company specializing in innovative medical devices for chronic home care patients under Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM), has closed out a seed round of 3 million euros. This funding will be used to consolidate the launch of clinical studies of two of Devicare's main product lines on the Spanish market: Lit-Control® for prevention and self-management of recurring urinary diseases and Tao-Control® for self-management of patients who take oral anticoagulants (Sintrom®, Aldocumar®, etc.).

The National Innovation Company (ENISA) has granted Devicare a loan of EUR 270,000 in order to support its expansion plan. This amount is allocated from the ENISA Entrepreneurs line of credit, which finances innovative SMEs so that they can invest in and develop their projects. The maximum loan amount granted is EUR 300,000. This year the company expects to obtain sales of 1.1 million euros and introduce the Lit-Control® line on new international markets, as well as consolidate the Tao-Control® service in Spain. The Devicare staff currently consists of 20 professionals. This is not the first time Devicare has received support from ENISA.

M4 Pharma and Devicare participated in the 20th Symposium of the Catalan Society of Urology, held in Barcelona on 31 March and 1 April, with a stand dedicated to Lit-Control® medical devices and food supplements for in-home self-management of frequent urological pathologies through a urinary pH Meter. This year's symposium brought together over 150 urologists from hospitals and health centres, a record for all editions held to date.

At the National Congress of the nurses’ union SATSE Catalunya, held on 29 and 30 March in Barcelona (Spain), and which more than 600 nurses and physiotherapists attended, two challenges were proposed for improving the current medical care model: empowering the patient and greater use of new technologies (digital health), in other words, moving towards Nursing 2.0. Among the various innovations that were presented, Devicare Tao-control® was well received.

Spanish Agency for Medicines and Health Care Products (AEMPS), under the Ministry of Health, has granted the manufacturing authorization for medical devices to Devicare until the year 2022. This new milestone in the commitment to quality and patient safety is relevant “because this acknowledges the good manufacturing practice and will allow us to conduct quicker and simpler export negotiations in countries where we plan to introduce...

The importance of monitoring urinary pH, the prevention of catheter encrustations, and the introduction of the use of new, effective medical solutions such as Lit-Control® to prevent urological pathologies, primarily lithiasis, are the major issues put on the table by the specialists during the XXVII National Meeting of the Groups of Lithiasis, Endourology, Laparoscopy and Robotics of the Spanish Association of Urology, held the 26th and 27th January in A Coruña (Spain). Among them, Prof Olivier Traxer from the University of Paris VI, one of the world's key opinion leaders in this field.