Mobile device links patients and healthcare professionals
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Cambridge Consultants has unveiled a new product concept based on its Continua-compliant Vena platform. The Minder, powered by Vena is designed to collect continuous real time medical data and engage in two way transmission with healthcare professionals or caregivers via celluar networks. Cambridge Consultants claims the new technology can decrease unnecessary hospital visits and, by doubling as a pocket sized digital patient checklist, take the stress out of daily medication and monitoring regimen for patients.
Minder captures wireless medical data and transmits it to a patient's online health record and can receive real time updates to the checklist.
The device has been designed to provide access to more accurate data to work with, while increasing efficiency and decreasing unnecessary hospital visits. It displays an interactive timed 'to do' list that can be customised for individual patients.
"The rollout of ubiquitous health monitoring is gaining traction; the question is not 'if' but 'which' technologies will take hold," said Vaishali Kamat, group manager, Medical Technology, Cambridge Consultants. "Between the proliferation of countless health apps for smart phones and even the first Continua Certified smart phone, we are seeing an opportunity to drive a new market and lower health care costs via connected health solutions.
"The other big question going forward will be: 'How do I design a product in a smart way so that I can get it to market without regulatory hiccoughs?' We believe the answer lies in standards based technology such as Vena, which can provide reliable platforms for dedicated health devices. In the end, the companies that clear regulatory hurdles first will most likely dominate the market."
