Consortium to push for home monitoring tech

The Continua Health Alliance will unite Intel, IBM, Cisco, Samsung, Philips and other big tech names with companies working on the healthcare side in an effort to encourage innovation and adoption of new health IT technologies. The group's focus will be remote monitoring products designed to allow physicians and other healthcare providers to track patients remotely at home. Key partners on the healthcare side include Medtronic, Kaiser Permanente, GE Healthcare and Boston's Partner's Healthcare System. The group will develop a logo that will be displayed on products that meet its certification requirement. Continua also plans to develop its own set of standards in order to ensure device makers and other vendors that new technologies on the market will be compatible with each other.

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