See Continua Personal Connected Health Technology in Action at CES 2012

LAS VEGAS--(EON: Enhanced Online News)--Continua Health Alliance and member companies AnyDATA, Bluegiga, Freescale, Nonin, Renesas, STMicroelectronics, Texas Instruments (TI) and Wind River will demonstrate personal connected health solutions Jan. 10-13 at the 2012 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas. Visit us in the North Hall Digital Health Summit (Booth #3027), to see consumer digital health solutions in action.

The Alliance has been busy. Here is a glimpse of some of Continua’s recent initiatives and other related upcoming announcements including:

Demand for Continua Certified™ products increasing with the Japanese Tsunami disaster relief efforts and the recent launch of Continua-compliant personal connected healthcare technologies and regional partnership solutions.
Android 4.0 including Bluetooth Health Device Profile (HDP) which supports Continua Certified™ devices such as heart-rate monitors, blood meters, thermometers, and scales.
Collaborating with NFC Forum to expand connectivity, simplify data exchange in healthcare IT
Making the 2011 Design Guidelines available free of charge to university students involved in the 2011-2012 GSMA Mobile Health University Challenge.

Continua CES demonstrations will include Continua Certified^™ connected health solutions for managing chronic medical conditions such as hypertension, diabetes, congestive heart failure and asthma/chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Among these products will be a Bluetooth pulse oximeter from Nonin Medical connected to a phone running a HealthLink PC manager from Lamprey Networks, Inc. (LNI) that turns a PC into a home health gateway, enabling Continua devices to deliver data to Personal Health Records (PHRs).

Continua member company demonstrations will include:

AnyDATA will be partnering with Omron to demonstrate how the AnyData tablet works seamlessly with Omron’s Continua compliant wireless medical system that includes a Bluetooth-enabled pedometer, blood pressure monitor, and weighing scale to process and display all of the medical information.
Bluegiga will be demonstrating Continua compatible Bluetooth-based wireless eHealth products that can be can be used for medical, health and fitness applications by original equipment manufacturers and system integrators.
Freescale will be demonstrating its new Home Health Hub reference platform (HHHRP) designed to provide wired and wireless connectivity to end healthcare devices, such as blood pressure monitors, blood glucometers, weight scales, pulse oximeters and more via ZigBee, sub-1 GHz, USB, Bluetooth and Bluetooth Low Energy including medical-class-specific device profiles.
Nonin will be demonstrating pulse oximetry products and eHealth connectivity capabilities.
Renesas will demonstrate a Renesas R8C USB microcontroller that supports a Continua blood pressure agent as a dongle on a Micro Life Blood Pressure Monitor.
STMicroelectronics will be demonstrating the “Body Gateway”, which will be Continua compliant as soon as the ECG profiles are ratified next year, a “Continua Platform” which will allow customers to develop Continua compliant applications using STMicroelectronics devices, and a “Personal Emergency Response” demo.
TI will feature its Continua-certified telehealth aggregation manager platform and its Continua-certified MSP430 USB hardware-software platform.
Wind River will demonstrate Continua compliant device interoperability with the Wind River Platform for Android showcased on a tablet connected via Bluetooth to a Continua Certified pulse oximeter, blood pressure cuff, and scale.

Continua will also be participating in several presentations and panels throughout the event, including:

Simplifying the Architecture for Connectivity – Thursday, January 12, 2012 from 9:50 – 10:40 a.m. (LVCC, North Hall N250). Led by Continua Executive Director Charles Parker, the panel will include representatives from Freescale, Cambridge Consulting, Qualcomm Life, Roche Diagnostics and PricewaterhouseCoopers.
Field of Dreams 2020: Home and Community — Plan for Aging, Benefit for All – Tuesday, January 10 from 2:50-3:40 p.m. (LVCC, North Hall N250). Panelists, including Parker, will discuss trends in "smart homes and towns" such as how builders and community designers are using technology to meet the needs of aging citizens.

About Continua: Continua Health Alliance is an international not-for-profit industry organization dedicated to establishing guidelines for combining and applying existing standards to personal connected health products and services. Continua makes a transition from the personal connected health marketplace to a marketplace of interoperable devices that facilitate better care, possible, empowering consumers, improving outcomes and lowering overall healthcare costs. With more than 240 member companies around the world, Continua is comprised of technology, medical device and healthcare industry leaders as well as service providers dedicated to making personal connected health a reality. For more information visit: www.continuaalliance.org.