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Cyberfab and Alive
Technologies Unveil BlueMedics™
“ Life-Saving Cell Phone”
Mobile Healthcare Solution at 3GSM Congress
BlueMedics ™ is the first modular, completely wireless
solution for emergency support. With BlueMedics, cell phones
can become life-saving devices — literally.
Bluetooth-enabled mobile phones can now be used as relay hubs for transmission
of data acquired from physiological sensors. Both the acquisition of medical
data from a person in the field and the forwarding of that data via GSM or
GPRS are wireless, which makes this low-cost communication system truly new
and unique.
Cyberfab and Alive Technologies have developed BlueMedics
to support personnel in the field needing robust, dependable,
portable and inexpensive equipment to send critical data
to remote experts — at expert centers anywhere in
the world, for example — who can then provide critical
advice or direct life-saving protocols.
Healthcare professionals, disaster relief organizations
and emergency services can now define, and quickly dispatch
to the field, tailored combinations of medical sensors
for the physiological parameters they need to monitor.
BlueMedics cutting edge technology is ideal for 24/7 medical
support networks who need to respond to crisis situations
fast and efficiently.
Because of their reduced weight and size, a large number
of pre-configured kits can be sent quickly to where they
are needed using regular express package carriers. The
combination of consistent user interfaces, rechargeable
batteries, and battery chargers make deployment simple
and easy. No complicated user manuals are necessary for
this “care and share” solution.
The low-power sensors of the mix-and-match BlueMedics
kit are individually protected in tough, waterproof, dustproof
units. Sensor batteries AND cell phones can be recharged
using solar power or 12 V car adapters as power outlets
are not always available in emergency situations.
Sensors currently available in BlueMedics kits include
ECG, spirometer, blood pressure, oxymeter, and glucometer.
Unlike other solutions which require a physical change
of each sensor every time a reading is needed, the Bluetooth
pairing between the sensors and the phone allows users
to switch signals simply by navigating the phone screen
icons or using keypad shortcuts. For the first time, mobile
phones serve as local display, storage and transmission
devices.
Field personnel need easy to use, state of the art wireless
sensors and new ways of sending data to remote experts.
With BlueMedics, Cyberfab and Alive Technologies are providing
the next step in remote physiological monitoring.
Cyberfab is a French technology company which specialises
in mobile applications. In addition to consulting for its
customers, it also markets its own products and services
for industry and healthcare. (www.cyberfab.net)
Contact: Michael Setton + 33 672 995 202
Alive Technologies is a leading edge
biomedical company based in Arundel, Australia. Its expertise
in wireless development has resulted in many industry leading
designs; its products are used in Asia, Europe and the
United States. (www.alivetec.com)
Contact: Bruce Satchwell + 61 755 632 871
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Cyberfab presents
its first wireless Bluetooth enabled Glucometer.
After having developed wireless electrocardiogram, blood
pressure, and other physiological data acquisition and
transmission modules, Cyberfab enters the field of chronic
disease management with its first Bluetooth enabled glucometer.
Diabetes patients can now wirelessly send the data from
a glucometer to a distant server without using a PC, and
update personal web pages in order to better monitor their
glucose levels with the help of healthcare professionals.
Several studies or pilot projects have already demonstrated
the benefits of such personalized monitoring on the participants’ health.
But, until now, in many cases the glucometers either had
to be physically connected to the communicating devices
or the data transmission technology was infrared therefore
requiring precise alignment of the glucometer and the communication
device. This clearly dramatically reduced the mobility
of the patients. With Cyberfab add-on device compatible
with a large installed base of commercially available glucometers,
diabetics can now very simply control the glucometer and
their Bluetooth enabled communication devices to send or
retrieve information. When using a PDA, users can also
send the data and therefore enhance their medical diaries
with text, images (e.g.; feet or eye) and voice memos.
This Cyberfab product opens the way to communication between
glucometers and insulin pumps, and pharmaceutical companies
now have the capability to add quantitative data to qualitative
information for clinical studies.
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Cyberfab launches
telemedicine solution
For more information about eMediate, click
on the icon to download
our brochure. Our technology allows vital parameters
to be collected wir
elessly via Bluetooth, compressed and sent
to a distant server using the QuickDoc function for easy
use. Fiels can be retrieved and displayed on PDAs as well.
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