Posted on Tuesday, July 7th, 2009 at 2:52 pm
Has Bluetooth already won race to connect medical devices?
Mobi Health News
Currently, Bluetooth’s Health Device Profile is the only wireless technology specification that the interoperability group Continua Health Alliance has included in its guidelines. “To achieve success eHealth needs a critical mass of devices,” Hunn writes. “Today there are just over 3 billion Bluetooth devices in existence. In 2011, there will be more Bluetooth devices than people. From the start of 2010, mobile phones will incorporate chips which support standard Bluetooth as well as low energy Bluetooth. No other wireless technology can begin to emulate this.” By many accounts, Bluetooth Low Energy is the technology to beat. Should Continua pick a different one, it’d be a real upset.
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