ATIS kicks off mHealth project
The Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions (ATIS), through its Wireless Technologies and Systems Committee (WTSC), has launched a mobile initiative to encourage healthcare systems to improve care delivery via a global wireless ecosystem.
The WTSC's effort encompasses tools and processes ranging from remote monitoring of health indicators and enhanced diagnostics to wireless fitness monitoring, the Washington, D.C.-based standards development organization stated.
The mobile health initiative supports the work of groups including emergency service providers, medical device manufacturers, remote monitoring services and commercial wireless networks to enhance disease management, promote independent living for the aging and improve general health and wellness, ATIS added.
Specifically, ATIS, through its WTSC, will help to describe an end-to-end architecture to define the necessary transport protocols through a mobile service provider to an appropriate end point, the alliance said. It focuses on protocols and enhancements to wireless networks and the IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) to securely transport medical data, rather than defining the content that will be sent to health providers.
ATIS will work with other groups including Continua, Lifecomm, GSMA and mHealth Alliance to define the end-to-end system, the alliance stated.
The WTSC's effort encompasses tools and processes ranging from remote monitoring of health indicators and enhanced diagnostics to wireless fitness monitoring, the Washington, D.C.-based standards development organization stated.
The mobile health initiative supports the work of groups including emergency service providers, medical device manufacturers, remote monitoring services and commercial wireless networks to enhance disease management, promote independent living for the aging and improve general health and wellness, ATIS added.
Specifically, ATIS, through its WTSC, will help to describe an end-to-end architecture to define the necessary transport protocols through a mobile service provider to an appropriate end point, the alliance said. It focuses on protocols and enhancements to wireless networks and the IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) to securely transport medical data, rather than defining the content that will be sent to health providers.
ATIS will work with other groups including Continua, Lifecomm, GSMA and mHealth Alliance to define the end-to-end system, the alliance stated.