Bluetooth Ecosystem for Health and Fitness

Bluetooth has become the de facto wireless standard for health and fitness devices.  Whether that’s a defibrillator, a weight scale, a heart rate belt, a glucose meter or a Wii Fit Balance Board, manufacturers have been enthusiastic in choosing Bluetooth to solve their connectivity issues.  Altogether, over 20 million Bluetooth health and fitness devices have been sold, from hundreds of different manufacturers.  This article explains why Bluetooth has been chosen and the demographics that are driving new, disruptive development in the consumer medical marketplace.

Trust Me - I’m not a Doctor

Healthcare is about to change as two disruptive forces come together. Those forces are Internet connected consumer medical devices and websites that bring the use of cognitive behaviour research and e-therapy to remote treatment.  Together they’re poised to combine their respective segments of expertise to produce a new generation of consumer health products.  It has the potential to be the most disruptive change to medicine in two centuries.  If it succeeds it will take healthcare out of the hands of today’s professionals and transfer it to the High Street as a true consumer offering.

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