Continua, LitePoint Solutions to Provide Personalized Health and Wellness Management

By Mini Swamy
TMCnet Contributor

Continua Health Alliance (News - Alert) is a nonprofit, open industry coalition of the finest healthcare and technology companies joining together in collaboration to improve the quality of personal healthcare. In an effort to improve the quality of personal healthcare and establish a system of interoperable health solutions for personalized health and wellness management for all people, LitePoint Corporation, the leader in wireless test solutions, announced it has joined Continua Health Alliance, along with other technology leaders.

Wireless technology, utilizing many different wireless standards, is quickly being added to personal medical devices such as glucose meters, wireless insulin pumps, and drug dispensers. With over 10 years of experience testing of all the most common wireless standards, LitePoint solutions have optimized and verified the operation of more than one billion wireless devices.

This technology is rapidly gaining momentum because it is easy to use and not very expensive. With an increasing number of applications becoming possible for wireless, and with the evolution and development in this area widespread, its future is just infinite.

Wireless will be as pervasive in medical technology as it already is in consumer electronics," said John Lukez, director of Product Marketing at LitePoint Corporation (News - Alert), adding that it would allow people and organizations to better manage health and wellness with safe, efficient health information exchange with testing wireless functionality. Elaborating on the distinct advantage that LitePoint had, Lukez said that the company's expertise and history in helping its customers deliver innovative wireless products to demanding consumers would help device makers bring new technologies to customers, and ultimately to patients and healthcare professionals.

With more than 200 member companies around the world, Continua is dedicated to establishing a system of interoperable personal health solutions with the knowledge that extending those solutions into the home fosters independence, empowers individuals and provides the opportunity for truly personalized health and wellness management.

 In a related news release, LitePoint Corporation, the leader in wireless test solutions, is the first to offer a one-box solution that meets the testing needs of 802.11p devices.