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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...
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...
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...
Portable kiosk takes health monitoring around the hospital, into patient homes
We haven't reported a whole lot on kiosks in FierceMobileHealthcare because, though they may incorporate portable computers, kiosks tend to stay in fixed locations. Not so for a new family of Read more...
ZigBee Alliance ratifies wireless protocol for low-power medical devices
The ZigBee Alliance has ratified a new wireless protocol for healthcare and made the standard available to the general public. The protocol, called ZigBee Health Care, is an open standard for Read more...
Networking firm sees big healthcare potential in new Bluetooth standard
Three months after an industry consortium approved a new, short-range wireless standard called Bluetooth Low Energy, technology manufacturers are banking on the fact that it is an open standard to Read more...
Market for wireless personal health sensors set to take off
We've reported on wireless body-area networks (WBANs) once or twice before, and now ABI Research is lending credence to the terminology by forecasting that 400 million wireless personal health Read more...
Wearable senior monitor can detect falls
Here's a new acronym in a field filled with them: WBAN, which stands for wireless body-area networks, in the emerging market segment of home health monitoring devices. That term is in the marketing Read more...
Continua chooses Bluetooth, ZigBee for personal monitoring devices
The Continua Health Alliance, a coalition of healthcare and technology firms, is recommending Bluetooth short-range wireless technology for a new generation of activity monitors, heart-rate sensors Read more...
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