 The Continua Health Alliance will certify its first round of interoperable telehealth products by the end of 2008, delivering on its promise to provide the marketplace with interoperable personal telehealth solutions. Following a year that saw strong momentum and continued progress, Continua will be welcoming the first Continua Certified devices to the marketplace this month and well into next year.
As products get ready for shipment, member companies are positioning themselves to be among the first to certify Continua products. Continua expects more than a dozen products to be certified in the first half of 2009, with a goal of June for a fully automated certification program.
Driving this ambitious schedule is Continua's Version 1 Design Guidelines. Now in its final review, the guidelines provide member companies with the necessary technical information to build and design products to be certifiable by Continua. This document will be available to Continua members in late December 2008, allowing them to jumpstart their certified products to market.
Continua has also confirmed the scope of Version 2 while also approving 19 use cases last month. Seven of these use cases are slated for completion by the end of summer 2009, while the remainder will be complete by spring of 2010.
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About Continua Health Alliance
Continua was launched in June of 2006 to address the lifestyle, health and demographic trends contributing to the skyrocketing costs of healthcare. The Continua Health Alliance was established to find methods to address the rise of chronic health conditions due to the rapid aging of the population and the need to shift healthcare from traditional institutional settings to impacting consumers’ everyday lives, particularly in the home. Promoting members include A&D Medical, ActiveHealth Management, Aetna, Ascension Health, AstraZeneca, Avita, Baxter, Bayer HealthCare, BodyMedia, Boston Scientific, Cisco, Dell, Dynastream Innovations, General Electric, Healthe, IBM, iMetrikus, Intel Corporation, Kaiser Permanente, Konami, Living Independently Group, Inc., Medtronic, MicroLife, Nautilus, NHS Connecting for Health, Nokia, Nonin, Omron Healthcare, Oracle, Panasonic (Matsushita Electric), Center for Connected Health, Pfizer, Philips, Polar, PriceWaterhouseCoopers, RMD Networks, Roche, Samsung, Sharp, Siemens, Sprint, St. Jude Medical, TechnoGym, Telus, Texas Instruments, Tunstall, Welch Allyn, and Zydacron. All members of the group share a vision of establishing an ecosystem of connected personal health and fitness products and services, making it possible for patients, caregivers and health care providers to more proactively address ongoing health care needs.
To learn more about the Continua Health Alliance and its participating companies and to find out how to become a member, visit http://www.continuaalliance.org. |
