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New e-Health Biometric Sensor Platform for Arduino and Raspberry Pi
Cooking Hacks by Libelium Helps Makers Develop Products to Monitor Medical Data. Cooking Hacks, the open hardware division of Libelium, a wireless sensor networks platform provider for Smart Cities solutions, has released a new e-Health sensor platform to give the maker Community tools that use Arduino and Raspberry Pi open source hardware platforms to monitor patients’ conditions. The new e-Health sensor platform adds sensing capability for nine different biometric parameters, such as pulse, blood pressure, oxygen in blood (SPO2), [...]
Telcare goes global with Telenor Connexion
Telcare, the company behind the world's first wireless-enabled Blood Glucose Meter, has partnered with global connected service enabler Telenor Connexion for its international marketing initiative. Telcare seeks to aggressively accelerate market share to realize their vision of becoming the global leader in wireless mHealth solutions for people with diabetes and other chronic illnesses. "By partnering with Telenor Connexion we can significantly accelerate our entry into the global market. When evaluating M2M service providers, Telenor [...]
Ideal Life Chooses Orange Business Services to Add Global Dimension to Remote Health Management
Solutions Expand in Europe and Latin America with Orange M2M communications. At the 2012 mHealth Summit in Washington, D.C., Toronto-based remote health provider Ideal Life announced that it has chosen Orange Business Services to expand its remote monitoring solutions for wellness and chronic conditions to an international audience. Orange will provide seamless machine to machine (M2M) wireless connectivity for Ideal Life in Europe and Latin America, promoting comprehensive remote care to the home and preventing non-critical re-admissions [...]
Qualcomm Life Launches Its Wireless Health Solution in Europe – First Customers Include Telbios and Cystelcom
Qualcomm Life, Inc., a subsidiary of Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. (QTI), today announced the availability of its wireless healthcare services offering in Europe. Qualcomm Life’s 2net™ Platform and Hub are designed to enable medical device manufacturers and service providers to wirelessly connect their medical devices via a secure, cloud-based solution so that biometric information is easily accessible by device users, their healthcare providers and caregivers. The 2net Platform and Hub are each individually certified as Class I Medical [...]
French public authority consortium selects INSIDE Secure’s NFC technology for e-health project
e-health project leader Docapost BPO will equip caregivers with NFC-enabled smartphones to facilitate home care visits. INSIDE Secure (NYSE Euronext: INSD.PA) announces today that the company has been selected by a French public authority consortium led by Docapost BPO, a digital transactions company owned by La Poste, France’s postal service, to provide NFC (Near Field Communication) technology and security expertise for an e-health project. The e-health project, CoNFianCe, aims to improve the management of home care and services [...]
Embedded Wireless Taps AT&T to Deliver a Remote Monitoring and Response Platform for Eldercare Services
In an effort to make caring for patients outside of hospital and nursing home walls more accessible, and to improve quality of life for the elderly, AT&T* and Embedded Wireless are teaming up to wirelessly enable a new remote patient monitoring platform. More than 35 million Americans are over age 65, and that number is set to nearly double in 20 years. Those 85 and older are the fastest growing segment of the population in the United States and many currently suffer from some form of chronic disease and some form of disability; and if [...]
FDA Clears BodyGuardian for Market
Developed by Preventice and the Mayo Clinic, the system detects, records, and wirelessly transmits physiological data to support remote monitoring of nonlethal cardiac arrhythmias in ambulatory patients. Preventice Inc., a leading developer of mobile health applications and remote monitoring systems, announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has given the company 510(k) clearance for its BodyGuardian Remote Monitoring System (RMS). Developed in collaboration with Mayo Clinic, the BodyGuardian System uses sophisticated [...]
The global market for telehealth and telemedicine will reach $32.5 billion by 2018
The provision of healthcare services and information by telecommunication methods – or ‘telehealth’ – holds the potential to change the way many of us receive medical care, states a new report by healthcare sector experts GlobalData. According to a new research report from London-based Global Data, the worldwide telehealth and telemedicine market will experience a boom in growth over the next few years as technology continues to expand, both in terms of number of applications and availability. From a 2011 valuation of $13.2 [...]
IRIS International Selects ThingWorx for Next-Generation Remote Service and Support of Medical Devices
Medical Device Manufacturer to Power Its World-Class Remote Equipment Monitoring and Support Solution With ThingWorx, Improving Customer Experience ThingWorx™ announced today that IRIS International, Inc. (NASDAQ: IRIS), a worldwide leader in automated urinalysis systems and consumables, is using the ThingWorx connected application platform to build its next-generation remote service management platform. The platform will enhance IRIS’ innovative iCARE™ (IRIS’ Customer [...]
Qualcomm Life Announces Availability of the 2net App SDK and Initiation of the 2net App Developer Challenge
2net Ecosystem Brings Together End Users, Developers and Data Streams to Create Rich Sets of Biometric Data for App Developers Qualcomm Life Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Qualcomm Incorporated (NASDAQ: QCOM), today announced the availability of its new 2net™ App Software Development Kit (SDK) on QDevNet. The SDK provides a consolidated data stream via 2net Connect Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) from the 2net Ecosystem, one of the most comprehensive and non-exclusive wireless health ecosystems in the world, making it [...]
