Author: Gene Kozin

I've joined Livongo in May, 2015 as a firmware engineering lead to spearhead development of the consumer digital health devices that empower people with chronic conditions to live better and healthier lives. During my 20-year career as an embedded software engineer I've had privilege to work on many exciting projects at some of the finest Silicon Valley companies, including Apple, Broadcom, LSI Logic and National Semiconductor, as well as several successful start-ups.
How Do Blood Pressure Monitors Work?

How Do Blood Pressure Monitors Work?

Gene Kozin | May 18, 2018

As Livongo expands its services beyond diabetes, it’s a good time to look at the technology that makes blood pressure monitoring possible. A proper scientific name for a blood pressure monitoring device is sphygmomanometer, which I personally find hard to pronounce, so for the rest of this post I’ll use more common, albeit unscientific name blood pressure monitor or BP monitor for … Continue reading “How Do Blood Pressure Monitors Work?”