Microsoft joins Continua Health Alliance
US software giant Microsoft has joined the Continua Health Alliance, the open industry coalition of healthcare and technology companies developing standards for connected personal health systems.
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Cambridge Consultants link with Continua
UK based company, Cambridge Consultants, has launched a platform that enables wireless connectivity from medical devices to online health services.
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TSA and Continua partner on telehealth
The representative body for the UK’s telehealth and telecare industry, the Telecare Service Association, has formed a partnership with the Continua Health Alliance to work towards the advancement of telecare internationally. The agreement will combine TSA’s skills in standards development in telecare and telehealth with Continua’s development of interoperable healthcare guidelines. The two will develop […]
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Bluetooth chosen as Continua standard
Continua Health Alliance has selected Bluetooth wireless technology as a key standard for its next set of design guidelines.
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IBM teams with Google to mobilise patient data
New software to enable data to be easily moved from remote personal monitoring devices into Google Health personal health records announced.
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First Continua certified patient monitor
International telehealth and personal health system interoperability group, Continua Health Alliance, has announced the launch of the first Continua-certified patient monitor. The device from Nonin Medical is a handheld pulse oximeter with USB, 2500 PalmSAT. Nonin says it plans to offer Continua certified tools across its product lines. After two years of work from more […]
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HL7 publishes four implementation guides
Health Level Seven (HL7), a developer of global healthcare standards, has announced the launch of four new implementation guides with its Clinical Document Architecture (CDA). The four guides address basic documentation requirements for diagnostic imaging, consultations, quality reporting and home health monitoring. The home health monitoring guide has been developed in association with the Continua […]
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Google joins Continua e-health alliance
Google has joined Continua Health Alliance, the Intel-led international coalition working to develop standards to enable interoperable e-health products and services for the personal health market.
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Continua promises products by year end
Continua Health Alliance says the first interoperable personal telehealth products, able to work with each other out ‘of the box’, will be in stores by year end. The first standards produced by the industry Alliance, including health USB and Bluetooth standards, are due for publication in the next month. Continua is a Intel-championed open industry […]
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New approach called for on Telemedicine
Experts gathered in Luxembourg to debate the future of telemedicine yesterday were told that new financial and business models are needed to make telemedicine part of mainstream healthcare, rather than many “unsustainable” projects. Mark Lange, head of the European Health Telematics Association (EHTEL) set out the challenge: “The question that we are addressing now is […]
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