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 [...]
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, hospital, locationing, 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, hospital, ZigBee
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October 6, 2009 – 10:17 am
Jon Adams Just a short note that Freescale is co-sponsoring the Continua Alliance’s Boston meeting and will have a booth there showing the richness of FSL’s portfolio targeted toward the medical/health care market (http://www.freescale.com/medical). David Niewolny of FSL will be managing the booth and will have plenty of stuff to show.
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