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Toumaz Technology Limited today announces that it has joined the Continua Health Alliance, the key industry body aimed at promoting interoperability across emerging technology-based health and wellness solutions. The open collaborative industry group is comprised of technology, medical device and healthcare industry leaders, and is dedicated to bringing together standards and diverse technology to create new healthcare solutions in the areas of fitness, chronic disease management, and aging independently.
Toumaz recently joined the Alliance's Technical Working Group and has participated in a number of discussions centred around its Sensiumâ„¢ system, a new ultra-low power wireless infrastructure system for health and lifestyle monitoring applications. As a full member, Toumaz will gain early access to Continua guidelines and test processes to enable the development of interoperable products and services. Members of the Alliance include Cisco, GE, IBM, Intel, Medtronic, Motorola, Oracle, Philips, Partners Healthcare and Kaiser Permanente.
Toumaz's Sensium sensor interface and transceiver platform enables intelligent, ultra-low power wireless monitoring of multiple vital signs - including ECG heart rate, body temperature, respiration and activity level - in real-time, via standard PDAs, cellphones and USB-enabled computers.
"Toumaz's vision of proactive, cost-effective personal connected healthcare is shared by the members of the Continua Alliance,"Â comments Toumaz Technology Co-Founder and COO, Keith Errey. "As the provider of a key enabling technology in the emerging personal telehealth ecosystem, it is obviously vital for Toumaz to take a role in this important organisation and support it in its aim - to deliver highly integrated systems that work together to improve the quality of people's lives."Â
About Sensiumâ„¢
The Sensiumâ„¢ sensor interface and transceiver platform provides the enabling technology to connect the mobile individual to healthcare providers - simply, affordably and unobtrusively.
The Sensium represents a technological revolution in three key areas:
"¢ Gathering real-time information, not raw data
o On-chip signal processing to intelligently extract critical information from sensors, providing real-time feedback to patients and enabling healthcare providers to focus on the important issues.
"¢ Ultra-low power
o Patented AMxâ„¢ technology coupled with low power radio and intelligent information handling results in an ultra-low power, body-worn solution, enabling non-intrusive, continuous monitoring.
"¢ End-to-end system
o The Sensium provides the low power radio link from the patient to the telecommunications network and into the healthcare provider's database/system, providing new levels of reassurance and enabling new service delivery models.
For healthcare professionals, this transforms the possibilities for pro-active monitoring and improved quality of care.
For patients, it delivers new opportunities for lifestyle-compatible, personalised healthcare, as well as better therapeutic outcomes.
Posted May 1st, 2007 by NeonDrum
