Biobeat vs Sickbay (2026)
Both capture physiologic data for clinicians, one from new sensors and one from devices already in the room. Biobeat's single use chest patch and wrist device derive blood pressure without a cuff, oxygen saturation and pulse from an optical sensor, for wards, long term care and home programs; the measurements are FDA cleared, and the AI early warning score on top is not. Sickbay, from Medical Informatics Corp, captures waveforms from bedside monitors and ventilators across manufacturers, stores them and shows them in a browser for bedside teams and command centers; its clearance covers routing, storage and display, and its predictive analytics are configured logic outside it. Choose Biobeat to monitor patients who are not wired up; choose Sickbay to collect and view what the ICU's devices already produce.
- Patients outside the ICU need continuous vital signs.
- You want cuffless blood pressure from a wearable.
- Home and long term care programs should use the same platform.
- Your ICU devices already produce the data, and you need it captured and stored.
- Virtual command centers should see waveforms in a browser.
- Device data should sit beside EHR labs and medications.
This comparison is published by AI Health Index, an independent research platform that compares healthcare AI vendors objectively. Biobeat and Sickbay are each graded against the same capability taxonomy, from each vendor's own public materials and the regulatory record, under the AI Health Index verification standard. No vendor pays for placement, and no vendor has reviewed this page. How this evidence is graded
Plain facts
| Fact | Biobeat | Sickbay |
|---|---|---|
| Primary category | Inpatient Deterioration & Risk Monitoring | Inpatient Deterioration & Risk Monitoring |
| Founded | 2016 | Not recorded |
| Headquarters | Petah Tikva, Israel | Houston, Texas, United States |
| Website | bio-beat.com | sickbay.com |
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Each vendor in one paragraph
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Biobeat sells wearable vital sign monitors and a cloud platform for hospitals, long term care and home programs. The hardware is a single use chest patch and a wrist worn device built on a reflective photoplethysmography sensor, and from that optical signal the company derives blood pressure without a cuff (after calibration against a cleared cuff), oxygen saturation, pulse rate, respiratory rate, body temperature, stroke volume and cardiac output.
Source: AI Health Index, September 2026
Sickbay, from Medical Informatics Corp (MIC) in Houston, is a vendor neutral platform that captures physiologic data and waveforms from bedside monitors, ventilators and other devices across manufacturers, stores them. It also takes in EHR labs, medications and admissions, and routes device data to the EHR.
Source: AI Health Index, September 2026
Questions buyers ask
How are Biobeat and Sickbay priced and sold?
For Biobeat, the chest patch is single use and runs for up to 120 hours per the clearance summary, so cost recurs with every monitored patient and scales with how widely a ward deploys it, alongside the wrist device and the cloud platform; the company also offers ambulatory blood pressure monitoring and home sleep services.
With Sickbay, the company says the platform supports unlimited users and runs on the hospital's own infrastructure, sells through reseller partners that offer managed services, and markets savings on bedside integration hardware and remote nursing station costs. Nothing states the unit of charge (monitored beds, device interfaces or data volume), implementation fees, or who pays for connectivity hardware. From the AI Health Index, drawn from each vendor's own published materials and the regulatory record, verified September 29, 2026. No vendor pays for placement.
How do Biobeat and Sickbay handle patient data?
In Biobeat's case, the in hospital monitoring page describes a secure, HIPAA and GDPR compliant cloud based patient management system, and the clearance summaries describe the path: patch to a Bluetooth gateway to the cloud to a web application.
The company says Sickbay is hosted only on the hospital's own network or cloud under the hospital's security standards, which keeps the archive in the customer's environment. The privacy notice of 12 May 2026 states that it does not cover services involving protected health information, and no document for the service addresses retention, de-identification or secondary use. From the AI Health Index, drawn from each vendor's own published materials and the regulatory record, verified September 29, 2026. No vendor pays for placement.
Which settings and specialties do Biobeat and Sickbay cover?
With Biobeat, the company offers a hospital solution for short term monitoring, a telehealth solution for long term monitoring, and at home services including ambulatory blood pressure monitoring and a home sleep lab, and has described use across wards, step down and post surgical units, long term care and hospital at home.
In Sickbay's case, the 2015 clearance covers hospital use, and its summary names ICU and emergency patients. The company now markets ICU, telemetry and virtual command center use, emergency departments, neonatal and pediatric care, and a rural health offering, and its post on the Intel Capital partnership mentions at-home monitoring, which the clearance's hospital setting does not reach. From the AI Health Index, drawn from each vendor's own published materials and the regulatory record, verified September 29, 2026. No vendor pays for placement.
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Other published head to head assessments involving these vendors or their closest peers. The full set for this category is on the Inpatient Deterioration & Risk Monitoring page.
Both records were reviewed on this site in September 2026. Neither publishes a price. Neither clearance covers the early warning or predictive features each vendor markets, and Sickbay describes configured logic as AI.
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