IP Group, which invests in intellectual property based businesses, is to pump money into a firm producing a webcam that monitors people's vital signs.
The company, Oxehealth, has been spun out of Oxford University's Institute of Biomedical Engineering .
Ip Group's full £500,000 investment is subject to milestones being met but IP Group and Oxehealth make no bones about the fact the first priority is to commercialise what is currently only an experimental technology.
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The webcam monitors heart rate, respiratory rate and oxygen saturation and has already been tested at Oxford University Hospital's kidney unit.
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