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Excellent Post from Brian Dolan, MobiHealth News ... "CES: Consumer health breaks out"

Colleagues,

Please see excerpts from and link to Brian Dolan's excellent assessment of how consumer health technology really had a big impact at this year's largest consumer electronics conference, CES 2010 ...
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For many years I avoided the Consumer Electronics Show. Too big, I was told. Too much noise — not enough news. With my focus on the wireless industry at the time, this advice was mostly true ...

... Just as wireless began to make its mark on CES five or six years ago, in 2010 consumer health began to make its mark...

... In many ways, the Digital Health Summit, the first dedicated consumer health event at CES, marked an important milestone for consumer health companies ...

... Wireless-enabled pill boxes that glow when it's time for a medication; Alarm clocks that interact with wireless-enabled head bands that track EEG's and analyze sleep activity; Easy-to-use mobile phones with one button connectivity to real live nurses — each of these and many more like them were on display at CES. They are also commercially available today and they're called GlowCaps, Zeo and Jitterbug, respectively...

... Jitterbug is now offering a heart-healthy health tips service with the AHA; WellCore, a start-up with a wireless-enabled fall protection service, launched; Swedish start-up Great Connection announced plans to bring its service, Mobile Baby, to the US; CloseBy Network launched a senior care remote monitoring service with sensors, software, email and text alerts...

... By many accounts, the highlight of Qualcomm CEO Paul Jacobs' keynote address to the wider CES audience was co-presenter Dr. Eric Topol's demonstrations of various wireless health products. His talk included the first ever live demo of GE's portable ultrasound device, Vscan — Topol used the device to point out the unique structures of his own heart live on-stage. Jacobs said the Vscan would make the 200-year-old stethoscope a thing of the past. “Buggywhips,” he quipped...

... The road to mass consumerization of wireless health devices, however, is much more complicated than those for other CE categories ...With yet-to-be proven efficacies, regulatory unknowns and little reimbursement, there's no magic bullet. Just a lot of work ahead...

Read the whole post at: http://mobihealthnews.com/6051/ces-consumer-health-breaks-out/

ENJOY!

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