Rockley Photonics Holdings Limited has agreed to enter a development partnership with Medtronic. The two companies plan to collaborate to bring Rockley's recently announced Bioptx biomarker sensing platform into Medtronic's solutions for use across various healthcare settings. Rockley's biosensing technology is expected to expand the capabilities of wearable medtech devices by miniaturizing the measurement and analysis of a range of biomarkers into a compact form factor.

These advances mean that a single wearable device could monitor multiple crucial biomarkers – including core body temperature, blood pressure, body hydration, alcohol, lactate, and glucose trends, among others. The Bioptx platform offers an end-to-end sensing solution that integrates cloud analytics and artificial intelligence (AI) to potentially deliver a holistic assessment of a variety of conditions. The partnership with Medtronic builds on the societal shift from reactive to proactive healthcare by potentially enabling round-the-clock, real-time, non-invasive monitoring of a person's health and well-being, thereby empowering clinicians to personalize care with actionable data.