Sony Develops Health Wearable Providing Connectivity, Stipulating That It ' s Not a Smartwatch

I have spent a lot of time blogging about health wearables, particularly the Apple Watch, as a component of the Apple health ecosystem (see:Using the Apple Ecosystem to Support Health Research and Clinical Trials) and digital health (see:What Is Digital Health and How Does a Health System Get There?;Consideration of the Organizational and Personal Digital Health Managers of the Future). I view wearables, and the diagnostic devices that connect to mobile phones (see:Six-Lead, Consumer-Facing ECG Device Close to Release to Market), as key elements in the consumer-facing, home-based components in the first tier of healthcare (see:Defining and Delineating the Changing First Tier of Healthcare). A recent article discussed Sony's newly announced health wearable (see:Sony launches new B-to-B wearable and mobile health technology platform). Below is an excerpt from it, which is very informative:Sony is jumping into the mobile health technology market, offering a business-to-business wearables solution to rival consumer-facing devices like Fitbit and the Apple Watch.The company launched a platform, calledmSafety, that combines a connected wearable device, a wristwatch, with a cloud-based backend solution to provide payers, health systems, and app developers a ready-made platform to build remote health monitoring and mobile health applications....While the electronics giant offers medical technology for operating rooms and medical imaging, this is the company's first fora...
Source: Lab Soft News - Category: Laboratory Medicine Authors: Tags: Cost of Healthcare Diagnostics Health Wearable Healthcare Information Technology Healthcare Innovations Medical Consumerism Point-of-Care Testing Preventive Medicine Test Kits and Home Testing Source Type: blogs