Medical instrument company joins Continua Alliance

A new member for the Continua Health Alliance, an industry body aimed at promoting interoperability across emerging technology-based health and wellness applications

Toumaz Technology has joined the Continua Health Alliance, an industry body aimed at promoting interoperability across emerging technology-based health and wellness applications. The open collaborative industry group is comprised of technology, medical device and healthcare industry leaders, and is dedicated to bringing together standards and diverse technology to create new healthcare products in the areas of fitness, chronic disease management, and aging independently.
Toumaz recently joined the Alliance's Technical Working Group and has participated in a number of discussions centred around its Sensium system, a new ultra-low-power wireless infrastructure system for health and lifestyle monitoring applications.

As a full member, Toumaz will gain early access to Continua guidelines and test processes to enable the development of interoperable products and services.

Members of the Alliance include Cisco, GE, IBM, Intel, Medtronic, Motorola, Oracle, Philips, Partners Healthcare and KaiToumaz's Sensium sensor interface and transceiver platform enables intelligent, ultra-low-power wireless monitoring of multiple vital signs - including ECG heart rate, body temperature, respiration and activity level - in real-time, via standard PDAs, cellphones and USB-enabled computers.

'Toumaz's vision of proactive, cost-effective personal connected healthcare is shared by the members of the Continua Alliance', comments Toumaz Technology co-founder and COO, Keith Errey.

'As the provider of a key enabling technology in the emerging personal telehealth ecosystem, it is obviously vital for Toumaz to take a role in this important organisation and support it in its aim - to deliver highly integrated systems that work together to improve the quality of people's lives'.ser Permanente.