Bluetooth news from FierceMobileHealthcare
NewsFord to demonstrate new in-car health tech
Ford Motor Company is ready to demonstrate its new in-car health monitoring systems at this week's Wireless Health 2011 conference in California. Researchers said in a statement that they've created Read more...
Updated Continua guidelines call for enhanced device communication, security
Continua Health Alliance, continuing its work to make wireless and mobile devices interoperable, recently released its latest technical guidelines for patient sensors and data transmission security. Read more...
Bluetooth brings low-energy wireless to remote temp, heart rate sensors
Bluetooth is making another strategic move into mHealth with a new set of profiles for wireless thermometers and heart-rate monitors. The Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) debuted the new Read more...
Brain-scan technology served dry with an mHealth twist
Mynd, a new portable brain scanner from neuromarketing research firm NeuroFocus not only is "the first dry, wireless headset designed to capture brainwave activity across the full brain," according Read more...
QNX wades further into healthcare market
QNX Software Systems recently showed off its reference design, enabled to allow Bluetooth devices to connect medical peripherals like blood pressure monitors, weight scales and pulse oximeters with Read more...
Wireless, mobile products in short supply at massive Medica show
The massive Radiological Society of North America is underway in Chicago now--without your Chicago-based editor, who's not back from Thanksgiving travels yet--but the 60,000 people who visit that Read more...
Bluetooth heart monitors could prevent thousands of strokes
Continuing the very international theme of this week's issue, we bring you news from just across the border in Windsor, Ontario, where researchers are starting to test whether new, wireless heart Read more...
Wi-Fi use in healthcare jumps 60 percent since last year, ABI Research says
Just as the Department of Veterans Affairs was revealing plans to install Wi-Fi for patients and visitors in hundreds of facilities, along comes a new report from ABI Research to confirm that Wi-Fi Read more...
CTIA highlights best practices for wireless data collection, remote monitoring
You know technologies are maturing when someone starts developing best practices for their use. That seems to be the case with data collection from wireless heart monitors, as evidenced by Aaron Read more...
UK looks to telehealth to address aging boomer population
England's National Health Service faces a funding shortfall of as much as 20 million pounds ($30.2 billion) over the next few years as the country's baby boomers age. "This is making telehealth Read more...
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