Dive Brief:
- HIMSS, the mhealth Summit and the Continua Health Alliance have come together into a group they call the Personal Connected Health Alliance.
- Continua brings design guidelines based on global interoperability standards. Its guidelines urge vendors toward end-to-end plug-and-play conductivity and personal connected health.
- The idea is to get devices certified with Continua, which integrates multiple global standards, allowing a certified product to have applications in many markets without further implementation, participants said.
Dive Insight:
With the explosion of personal connected health devices hitting the market, it makes a lot of sense to look at ways of standardizing and making them offer interoperable. After all, as neat as health trackers smart watches and wireless glucometers are, there is only so much they can do if these devices can't talk to each other and to EMRs. Let's see if this partnership develops standards that the marketplace actually accepts.