Pulse oximeter and heart rate sensor module provides ultra-low power solution for wearables

System designers can speed time to market for wearable and healthcare products with the MAX30102 pulse oximeter and heart rate integrated sensor module from Maxim Integrated Products, Inc.

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Gemalto Cat 1 LTE connectivity solution wins ‘Most Innovative Application’ award

Gemalto has won the Most Innovative LTE Application and Service Award for its Cinterion® Cat 1 LTE wireless module.

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Telstra Health acquires health analytics firm Dr Foster

Telstra Health has announced a key development in its health analytics capability with confirmation it has acquired UK based firm Dr Foster.

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Telstra Health acquires health analytics firm Dr Foster

Telstra Health has announced a key development in its health analytics capability with confirmation it has acquired UK based firm Dr Foster.

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Smart Wireless healthcare and fitness device services to be a $1.8bn market by 2019

New research from market analysts, Juniper Research has found that annual revenues from connected healthcare and fitness services will approach $2bn by 2019, nearly 6 times the $320m value estimated for this year.

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Swisscom Health AG acquires H-Net AG, thereby strengthening its portfolio and customer base

By taking over H-Net, Swisscom Health is acquiring one of the companies in the area of  administrative and medical data exchange in the healthcare sector. Swisscom Health is thus strengthening its portfolio and further expanding its eHealth ecosystem in Switzerland.

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Smart Wireless Healthcare and Fitness device services to be a $1.8bn market by 2019

New research from market analysts, Juniper Research, has found that annual revenues from connected healthcare and fitness services will approach $2bn by 2019, nearly 6 times the $320m value estimated for this year.

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Swisscom Health and the i-engineers to provide patient-record and networking solutions for hospitals

Swisscom Health AG and the i-engineers AG, a software firm that provides specialised solutions for electronic patient record-keeping and networking, have decided to enter a strategic partnership. The cooperation will create new cloud-based solutions for hospitals that will also be beneficial to doctors and patients. Customers of the i-engineers will therefore be able to purchase their services at

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SRETT and Telenor Connexion jointly address a global health concern

100 million patients in the world are affected by sleep apnea syndrome. The disorder is characterised by pauses in breathing during sleep and this can cause drowsiness during the day as well as a broad spectrum of serious medical conditions.

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Stream Technologies’ ‘fascinating journey’ told on video ahead of MWC

We are just five days away from the biggest event of the year, Mobile World Congress 2015. Nigel Chadwick speaks about how Stream Technologies got to where it is today and on ‘The Future of Stream Technologies and IoT-XTM’ as the team prepares to head out to MWC for the fifth year running.

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Isansys wireless patient monitoring platform shows promise of digital healthcare in Indian hospitals

Isansys Lifecare Ltd, the provider of complete real-time physiological patient data services and systems, has announced the results of a collaborative pilot study, with a medical centre in India, based on its first generation Patient Status Engine.

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Wireless patient monitoring company continues rapid expansion

A company which provides the NHS and health organisations with new generation wireless patient monitoring systems and associated predictive analytics is expanding at Milton Park thanks to increased demand from home and abroad.

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Infonetics: healthcare providers slow to invest in M2M solutions, muting near-term growth of connected health market

Technology market research firm Infonetics Research, now part of IHS Inc. IHS, +0.28% has released excerpts from its new Connected Health M2M Connections and Services report.

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BlackBerry provides software platform for NantHealth’s internet of medical things device

BlackBerry Ltd and NantHealth, a cloud-based information technology provider combining science and big data to transform healthcare, have announced the launch of the next generation of the NantHealth HBox, a portable medical device that captures and transmits secure medical data between the patient, doctor and hospital. To power the new mobile HBox, NantHealth selected technology from QNX Software Systems Ltd,

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Secure NFC/RFID tag authenticator with energy harvesting protects sensitive data transfer between master and slave devices

Designers can now perform secure wireless data communication on their embedded systems without needing the host microcontroller, but by simply using a single MAX66242 DeepCover® Secure Authenticator from Maxim Integrated Products, Inc.

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Larco U-WAV touchless sensing wall switch opens doors with a wave of the hand

Researchers at the University of Arizona found that it takes only two to four hours for a virus to spread through an office, hotel or healthcare facility after a doorknob or tabletop is contaminated. To help organisations reduce the spread of infection, ATEK Access Technologies, LLC has released the new and improved Larco U-WAV touchless sensing wall switch,

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