We’re a part of this. See the CRN article “Intel-led group seeks medical device specs“. An excerpt:
An Intel-led consortium of more than 20 companies hopes to smooth out technical and business issues inhibiting the rise of interoperable medical devices for use at home or on the road.
The Continua Health Alliance will select standards, write interoperability guidelines and wrestle with issues about how to secure and get insurance reimbursement for home-use health care systems.
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So far, Continua is weighted toward OEM heavyweights with members such as Cisco, GE Healthcare, IBM, Intel, Medtronic, Motorola, Panasonic, Philips, Samsung and Sharp.
IBMer Sue Green presents her perspective on IBM and the Continua Alliance that you might be interested in. It is on the healthcare blog, Healthnex. (http://healthnex.typepad.com/web_log/2006/06/ibm_and_others_.html).