Wireless breakthrough for home health monitoring + remote disease management

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Wireless breakthrough for home health monitoring and remote disease

management

(photo at http://www.news-medical.net/?id=4127) Tuesday, 17-Aug-2004

RTX Healthcare has announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration

has issued a 510(k) Premarket Notification Clearance to the Company for

the RTX3320 PSTN Wireless Telehealth Gateway, designed for home

monitoring, e-health and remote disease management applications.

The device provides immediate benefits to patients by utilizing advanced

wireless and Internet technologies, carefully implemented for seamless

and automated operation with a minimum need for patient interaction to

improve patient quality of life, convenience and compliance in their

daily monitoring.

" The advantage of the Wireless Telehealth Gateway for patients and

healthcare providers is its simplicity and reliability, " said Chris

Tubis, President and CEO, RTX America. " The Wireless Telehealth Gateway

is the first and only FDA approved wireless connectivity device for

remote patient monitoring, creating what has been a missing link between

standard wireless patient monitors, currently available, and any

electronic patient health record managed by a healthcare provider. "

" The recent integration of the Wireless Telehealth Gateway solution into

our suite of home monitoring telemedicine products has enabled us to

package a non-invasive, practical solution with pricing suitable for any

scalable remote patient monitoring program, " said R. King, Senior

Systems Engineer, Healthcare Vision, Inc. " The Wireless Telehealth

Gateway technology is dependable with simple configuration and

deployment procedures. Most importantly, we have found that its

hands-free operation does not introduce any disruption in the patient's

daily measurement routine. "

The Wireless Telehealth Gateway is a wireless Bluetooth-to-PSTN gateway

designed for home use by patients. It is intended to be used in

combination with a variety of patient monitors upon the prescription of

a licensed physician or other authorized healthcare provider. Its

purpose is to transmit selected medical information -- such as weight,

blood pressure or blood glucose levels -- over a normal residential

telephone line directly to the healthcare facility. The Wireless

Telehealth Gateway is fully compliant with the Health Insurance

Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) of 1996, thus ensuring

protection of confidentiality and security of patient health data.

The Wireless Telehealth Gateway serves as the remote communications link

between compatible patient monitors and the compatible healthcare

facility at another location - which could be a physician office,

disease management center, or other out-of-hospital caregiver facility.

The Wireless Telehealth Gateway is a " black box " device that is not

connected to or operated by the patient. The device does not measure,

interpret or make any decisions on the vital data it conveys. Rather,

when the device has received the measured values, it stores the data and

generates a call using the analog phone line, conveying the data to a

remote facility.

http://wireless-healthcare.rtx.dk/