Tunstall Wireless Telehealth Monitor

Jeremy Burlingame

Link: Healthcare IT News

Tunstall just received FDA approval for "an interactive telehealth device with in-built GSM/GPRS mobile phone technology that collects vital signs wirelessly from a range of external devices such as weight scales and blood pressure cuffs." With this new technology the hospital or doctor's office of the future can be wireless and stream data from different devices and even upload that data to a platform such as an electronic medical record such as Google Health. Additionally, with this technology, nurses can more easily track a patient's vitals and a physician can review patterns in this data as more of it will be recorded.

Use Case: Allow patient's medical information from various wireless devices in a doctor's office or hospital to be uploaded to the network.

With this system in place, a nurse would no longer need to record the results of the weight scale or blood pressure monitor, reducing not only the need for the nurse to record this information but also to enter that data to the client's chart. This also prevents human error from entering into crucial medical records. Using this system, digital medical charts become even easier to create and maintain because basic information such as the readings of these devices are uploaded electronically.

Standards: The information gathered from the wireless enabled devices will, "automatically transmit the data to a clinical backend software application based on an open architecture interface."