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, group care, Health Care, healthcare, IEEE, ZigBee
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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, group care, Health Care, healthcare, 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 [...]
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, [...]
October 8, 2009 – 7:05 am
Jon Adams As some of you might know, I’m the vice-chair of the ZigBee Alliance’s Health Care technical working group as well as its marketing chair. I became involved in the Continua Health Alliance just over a year ago, soon after Freescale became a member of Continua. My initial participation in Continua was as a member of the Low-Power [...]
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, asset tracking, elder care, green technology, group care, Health Care, healthcare, locationing, medical, ZigBee
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October 6, 2009 – 2:28 pm
Jon Adams I’m headed out the door shortly to attend the International CTIA WIRELESS I.T. & Entertainment 2009 event in San Diego CA. It runs 7-9 October and includes this year two half-day educational tracks focused on”Mobile Health Care”. I’m on a panel called “Remote Monitoring and Diagnostics via Wireless” Wedensday afternoon from 2pm to [...]
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, asset tracking, elder care, green technology, group care, Health Care, healthcare, medical, ZigBee
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September 30, 2009 – 11:39 am
Jon Adams I had the honor this morning to emcee the first-ever ZigBee Health Care webinar, presented by the ZigBee Alliance to its own membership. While I’m bound by confidentiality requirements, I can say that I was fortunate to have terrific presentations from a tier 1 health care equipment OEM, one of the largest US [...]