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NewsUpdated 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...
Classification for mHealth devices could simplify FDA regulation
Developers with the mHealth Regulatory Coalition may have done some important heavy lifting in the struggle to clarify the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's regulation of mobile devices. The Read more...
Continua, Global Certification Forum partner to test mobile health devices
Is the mobile healthcare industry looking to head the FDA off at the pass? Might be. Two major mobile technology advocacy groups, Global Certification Forum and Continua Health Alliance, partnered 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...
Spain's Telefónica latest telecom to enter e-health realm
Yet another multinational telecommunications firm has taken the plunge into health IT. Spain-based Telefónica last week launched its global e-health unit, which the company says will Read more...
Qualcomm, Cambridge Consultants partner on Continua-certified cellular device
Wireless telecommunications equipment maker Qualcomm continues its foray into mobile healthcare by joining with British technology developer Cambridge Consultants to create a standard wireless Read more...
VA mobile gets boost from House panel, advances plans for patient Wi-Fi
Wireless and mobile technology represent "the new frontier in health innovations," as well as a great way of increasing access to care for millions of veterans, Rep. Michael F. Michaud (D-Maine) said Read more...
Cisco exec: Home monitoring needs standards, financial incentives
We report elsewhere in today's newsletter that the Continua Health Alliance is creating a library of source code to connect wireless medical devices with smartphones. Such developments are welcome in Read more...
Continua Health Alliance to offer library of interoperable connectivity code for smartphones
The Continua Health Alliance is building a library of source code to connect interoperable personal health devices and health records via smartphones, Healthcare IT News reports. This mobile Continua Read more...
New coalition to offer FDA guidance on regulation of mobile smartphone apps
As the FDA ponders whether to regulate mobile health apps as medical devices, industry stakeholders are coming together to develop a guidance document on the scope of what they perceive the federal Read more...
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