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Bangalore, Nov. 18

Wipro Technologies has announced the launch of a next generation medical gateway solution that aims to improve healthcare coordination between patients and their care providers.

Powered by Intel Atom processor, the solution enables users such as patients, doctors, and other healthcare professionals monitor, track and manage healthcare information from a remote location. It also allows real-time clinical review by capturing vital data from multiple medical devices such as blood pressure monitors, glucometers, weighing scales etc.

Various mecial devices can connect to the gateway solution through different interfaces such as Bluetooth, USB etc to provide medical data, video and image transfer from a patient to a doctor and vice-versa.

The medical gateway device is installed at the patient’s house. He or she records medical data such as BP, ECG etc using the device and sends them to the doctor or to a public server online. This saves the patient the bother of having to travel to the hospital. The medical gateway solution also enables video-conferencing.

“The trend today is to not tie down the patient to the hospital. The patient just has to sit with his PC and the gateway solution and get connected to the doctor or the hospital. This could particularly be of use in primary healthcare in remote villages.

Vis-a-vis other devices in the market, our technology costs are much lower. We are talking to original equipment makers in the US and the UK in remote patient monitoring to take up this technology.

The solution can also be targeted at insurance and pharma companies, hospitals and patients,” said Mr R. Manimaran, General Manager, Medical Devices, Product Engineering Services, Wipro.

“India could emerge in the top six countries in terms of providing a market for medical equipment by 2014-15,” said Mr Sanat Rao, Marketing Director for Emerging Markets, Embedded and Communications Group, Intel South Asia.

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