Samsung’s Mobile Intelligent Terminals (MITs), coupled with Card Guard’s wireless healthcare monitors, will offer patients and healthcare practitioners the ability to monitor vitals such as blood pressure and blood glucose level remotely.
The agreement follows Samsung’s 2004 introduction of its wireless content and diagnostic resources, such as drug references and clinical journals, for physicians and medical residents via their handheld devices.
For rural-area residents or those with ongoing conditions such as diabetes, wireless patient monitoring can help in the ongoing assessment of their vitals to ensure they remain healthy and visit the doctor when necessary, commented Peter Skarzynski, senior vice president of Samsung’s wireless terminals division.
Industry analysts predict that as the baby boomer generation, which covers Americans born between 1946 and 1964, ages and the incidence of diabetes, obesity and hypertension rises, remote care applications will be an essential component in the future of patient care.
Card Guard said its PMP4 suite of products measure and transmit medical data via a Bluetooth wireless technology card inserted into an SD I/O slot of a handheld device, which can then upload this information to a dedicated web-based medical center. The suite includes an ECG heart monitor, lung function Spirometer, Pulse Oximeter, blood pressure devices and an SD I/O blood glucose monitor, which can be used in conjunction with Samsung’s i700 device.
