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Frost & Sullivan: Driving Wireless Device Adoption in the U.S. Healthcare Sector
Whitepaper examines the proliferation of mobile device alternatives in today’s evolving healthcare landscape Today’s U.S. healthcare providers face a three-pronged deluge of demands from patients, insurance companies, and the government. To successfully address these new and evolving expectations, members of the medical sector must leverage the capabilities of new wireless technologies – or fall behind their more savvy competitors. Frost & Sullivan recently published a whitepaper, "Mobile Devices and Healthcare: What’s [...]
Aerotel and Cinterion Win 2011 Connected World Gold Value Chain Award in Home Health Category
Aerotel Medical Systems, and its partner Cinterion announce winning the Connected World Magazine’s prestigious gold Value Chain Award in the home health category for Aerotel’s e-CliniQ™ system and the Connect-CELL™ telehealth homecare hub. Connected World Magazine’s Value Chain Awards honor the most successful corporate adopters of M2M technology and the solution providers that make their success possible. The Aerotel Connect-CELL hub is intended for home-based chronic disease [...]
Open Networks Drive Innovation In Telemedicine
Sprint's open approach, network flexibility and proven execution reduces costs, extends accessibility and enhances overall effectiveness of health care How does a wireless carrier make health care delivery more cost efficient and patient friendly? By enabling mobile applications and machine-to-machine (M2M) communication, Sprint is on the forefront of telemedicine. The driver of Sprint's innovation is its "open" strategy, providing opportunities for developers to create innovative applications and solutions for the medical community. [...]
GeaCom selects Sierra Wireless to connect multilingual medical communication device to electronic health records
Innovative device with Sierra Wireless AirPrime™ embedded wireless module helps caregivers communicate with patients over language, cultural, and literacy barriers Sierra Wireless and GeaCom, Inc. today announced that GeaCom has selected a Sierra Wireless AirPrime™ embedded wireless module to provide the 3G wireless connection for GeaCom’s handheld multilingual medical communication system, called Phrazer®. The first system of its kind in the world, Phrazer is a handheld touchscreen device that helps patients and caregivers [...]
Cinterion and TZ Medical Announce Advanced Heart Monitoring M2M Device
Cinterion, the global leader in cellular machine-to-machine (M2M) communication modules and a Gemalto company, and TZ Medical, a leading manufacturer of critical-care medical products, today announced Aera-CT™, a lightweight and cost effective mHealth heart arrhythmia monitoring device. Equipped with the Cinterion MC75i module, the Aera-CT is expected to be commercially available in North America in Q3, 2011 followed by rolling launches throughout the world. The Cinterion-enabled Aera-CT improves the ability to rapidly detect [...]
Market for M2M Healthcare applications worth €69bn according to Machina Research
“The market for M2M healthcare applications will be huge, EUR69 billion in 2020..." "... We expect that EUR3.1 billion of this revenue will go to mobile network operators for provision of data carriage services, but the rest is up for grabs. Telecoms operators, equipment vendors and various service providers will all want a slice of the pie, and who gets what all comes down to business models”. Jim Morrish, Director Machine-to-machine in the healthcare sector represents a significant commercial [...]
T-Mobile USA Powers World’s First Multilingual Medical Communication System
Phrazer™ Telehealth Application from GeaCom Eliminates Communication Barriers, Improves Medical Treatment and Reduces Medical Costs GeaCom, Inc. announced today that its handheld interactive multilingual medical communication system, called Phrazer, will be powered by the robust network of T-Mobile USA, Inc. The first system of its kind in the world, Phrazer enables the collection and delivery of critical information between patients and caregivers, regardless of language, culture or literacy. Communication barriers often [...]
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