# Epitel

**Type:** venture
**Status:** Draft
**Confidence:** Medium
**Focus:** ambulatory EEG, epilepsy monitoring, wearable medtech, AI-assisted neurology, remote patient monitoring
**Stage:** Commercializing; FDA-cleared REMI system in clinical use
**Location:** Salt Lake City, UT
**Updated:** 2026-06-19
**Needs-reviewed:** 2026-06-19
**Hero:** https://picsum.photos/seed/epitel-remi-ambulatory-eeg-2026/1600/1100
**Pull:** *Wireless EEG patches that move seizure monitoring out of hospital units and into patients' daily lives.*
**Relates:** cites [Official Website: Epitel](epitel-official-website.md)

## Summary

Epitel is a Salt Lake City company developing REMI, a wireless remote EEG monitoring system for healthcare-facility and ambulatory settings. The system uses disposable wearable sensors, cloud storage, and physician-review software — with REMI Vigilenz AI to flag EEG sections that may correspond to electrographic seizure activity.

The company is a University of Utah Neural Engineering spinout (founded circa 2011). Its public materials position REMI as a way to capture seizures that never appear during short clinic EEGs without requiring expensive inpatient monitoring.

## Impact

Epilepsy diagnosis and treatment depend on recording seizures on EEG, but seizures are episodic. Many patients never have one during a standard one- to two-hour clinic study. The traditional workaround — multi-day inpatient video-EEG — is costly, hospital-bound, and inaccessible for rural, underinsured, or time-constrained patients.

Ambulatory EEG changes the diagnostic funnel: a patient wears a patch at home while living normally, and neurologists review continuous data — increasingly with AI-assisted event marking. If wearable EEG becomes routine, it could also support medication titration and longitudinal monitoring at scales inpatient units cannot reach.

## What They Are Building

Epitel's product stack, per its official website, includes:

1. **REMI sensors** — single-use, disposable, wireless scalp electrodes that capture brain electrical activity for up to 30 days.
2. **REMI Mobile** — setup and notification software on qualified commercial mobile platforms.
3. **REMI Cloud** — secure storage and preparation of EEG data for remote review.
4. **REMI Vigilenz AI for Event Detection** — offline analysis that annotates previously acquired EEG with potential seizure-like events and confidence scores; it does not diagnose or operate in real time.
5. **Persyst Mobile integration** — data flows to a widely used EEG review platform for qualified physicians.

The hard engineering problems are low-power, low-noise scalp EEG during daily activity (movement, muscle, and electrical artifact), plus seizure-detection models that balance sensitivity against reviewer overload.

## What They Need Now

Likely needs include biomedical and electrical engineers, signal-processing and machine-learning engineers for seizure detection, regulatory affairs specialists, clinical-study operations staff, reimbursement and payer-strategy operators, and field clinical trainers. The company is small; individual contributors can have outsized impact.

## Who Could Help

Useful helpers include FDA regulatory consultants for software-as-a-medical-device pathways, epilepsy clinical advisors, hospital neurology department champions, payer and coding specialists for ambulatory EEG reimbursement, and manufacturing partners for disposable sensor scale-up.

## Utah Context

Epitel is headquartered in Salt Lake City and traces to the University of Utah Neural Engineering program. It sits alongside [Blackrock Neurotech](blackrock-neurotech.md), [SCI Institute](sci-institute.md), and the broader U of U spinout pipeline in a Wasatch Front cluster that punches above its weight in neural engineering and medical devices.

## Evidence

- [Official Website: Epitel](epitel-official-website.md)

## See Also

- [Blackrock Neurotech](blackrock-neurotech.md) — Utah neighbor in implantable and systems-level neural interfaces
- [SCI Institute](sci-institute.md) — Utah academic infrastructure for neural engineering
- [Utah Array BCI Platform](utah-array-bci-platform.md) — contrasting Utah neural-hardware lineage (intracortical versus scalp EEG)

## Open Questions

- Market share versus ambulatory EEG competitors (Epilog, Ceribell ICU variants, Neurolutions, traditional extended EEG vendors) is not established on this page.
- Independent clinical outcomes data beyond company-cited publications should be reviewed before strong efficacy claims.
- Insurance coverage and reimbursement ceilings will likely determine deployment scale more than hardware performance alone.
- The placeholder hero should be swapped for a cleared product or clinical-use image before magazine layout use.