The International Telecommunication Union (ITU)
Standards directorate has said that an important milestone
for global e-health standardization has been achieved with final approval of a
new standard that will better enable interoperability between e-health devices,
reports DigitalSENSE Business
News.
The standard - Recommendation ITU-T H.810, DigitalSENSE Business News
gathered was contained in the Continua Health Alliance’s Design Guidelines
which provide “Interoperability design guidelines for personal health systems”.
Also, DigitalSENSE
Business News gathered from a press statement available to correspondent that the Continua Design Guidelines provide for
end-to-end, plug-and-play connectivity in personal connected health devices,
which are based on global industry standards for interoperability.
Devices such as wireless blood pressure cuffs, weight scales and
a wide range of activity trackers can play a critical role in the prevention
and improved management of chronic conditions such as diabetes, hypertension
and heart disease. Establishing global interoperability standards will
stimulate innovation and nourish the personal connected health ecosystem.
For manufacturers, standards will decrease time-to-market,
reduce development costs and increase efficiencies. In particular they will
enable quicker, less expensive integration to electronic medical records (EMR)
or health information exchange (HIE) platforms.
Chuks Egbuna/GEE
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