Colleagues,
A very nicely done, concise, market overview of the wireless healthcare market by Sunil Hattangady, President of Emblaze Consulting LLC (
http://emblazeworld.com/).
We received this post thru the
"Medical Device Insider"Linkedin Group.
... Awareness of telehealth and wireless medical applications is increasing with more high profile companies (GE, Google, HP, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, Philips, Qualcomm, Siemens, TI, Wal-Mart, etc,) entering the space, along with prominent media coverage and a rise in the number of conferences highlighting the technology.
Some notable recent developments in the end-to-end health monitoring space are:
Wireless Health Device & Remote Patient Monitoring Systems
* Philips announced initiatives to offer wireless handheld medical care services including in-home wireless monitoring devices
* Bosch offers a Telehealth Platform to Support Remote Health Monitoring and Management Programs
* Medtronic CareLink® Network with Conexus™ Wireless Telemetry for cardiac disease management
* GE’s Quiet Care™ remote monitoring system for seniors
* Intel and GE announced a health care alliance and plans to invest $250M in Medical Devices for telehealth and home health monitoring
* St. Jude Medical introduced HouseCallPlus™, its remote Patient Monitoring System
* Biotronik introduced a remote patient monitoring service and the Cardiomessenger...
Read on at:
http://www.linkedin.com/news?viewArticle=&articleID=47138002&am...
ENJOY!
CC