By Jon Adams Connected medical devices are part of the future of health care. And unless it’s a piece of “big-iron” equipment like a CT scanner or MRI machine, wireless is quickly becoming the preferred method for getting data from the device to the data repository, loved ones or the care provider. But there’s wireless [...]
By Jon Adams
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Posted in Everything Wireless, Freescale, Medical by Design, The Embedded Beat
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Also tagged 802.15.4, FCC, Federal Communications Commision, green technology, Health Care, healthcare, hospital, IEEE, ZigBee
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Over two-thirds of Americans are overweight or obese and nearly 1 out of every 2 people are living with at least one chronic disease. The average age of the population is creeping upwards, partly from lower birth rates but also because people are living longer. The cost to the nation of health care continues to [...]
By Jon Adams You’ve grown accustomed to tilting the iPhone or iPad and having the screen change from landscape to portrait, or steering the spaceship to port or starboard. Now you want to put that into your next product – you may want to try a wireless sensor demo kit that detects fall, tilt, motion, [...]
By Jon Adams
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Posted in Everything Wireless, Medical by Design
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Also tagged 802.15.4, alzheimer's, elder care, green technology, Health Care, healthcare, hospital, locationing, RF4CE, ZigBee
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By Jon Adams Earlier today the ZigBee Alliance (ZA) announced the availability to the public (outside of the ZA) of the ZigBee Health Care (ZHC) application profile. This is great news! Anyone who’d like to start creating their next successful wirelessly enabled home health care product can head on over to the ZigBee Health Care [...]
January 14, 2010 – 3:33 pm
By Jon Adams A few of us (about 120,000, I hear) showed up last week to participate in the International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, USA. There were thousands of exhibitors attempting to awe the passersby and potential customers with big-screen 3D TVs, humongous audio systems, the latest and greatest in cellphones and 3G/4G [...]
November 17, 2009 – 8:51 am
By Jon Adams Exciting news for the advancement of telemedicine and telehealth services and systems – this morning the ZigBee Alliance and the American Telemedicine Association (ATA) agreed to establish a liaison relationship that allows focus on the abilities of ZigBee Health Care, an open standard, to bring secure wireless monitoring and management to noncritical, [...]
November 13, 2009 – 11:23 am
By Jon Adams Earlier this week we debuted the first-ever public ZigBee Health Care webinar, which dove into the huge opportunity for telehealth and telemedicine applications and the tremendous need for short-range wireless. ZigBee provides robust and reliable, battery-efficient wireless communications throughout the home, group care facility, or professional care environment and has quickly become [...]
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