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AT&T to Provide LTE Connectivity for M-Health Monitors
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More than 35 million Americans are over age 65, and that number is set to nearly double in 20 years. Those 85 and older are the fastest growing segment of the population in the United States and many currently suffer from some form of chronic disease and some form of disability; and if possible, prefer to remain at home rather than transfer to a care facility.
In an effort to make caring for patients outside of hospital and nursing home walls more accessible, and to improve quality of life for the elderly, AT&T and Embedded Wireless are teaming up to wirelessly enable a new remote patient monitoring platform. The companies today announced that AT&T will be the exclusive LTE mobile internet provider for the Zilant Wellness Remote Monitoring Platform and a mobile personal emergency response (mPERS) system.
Advances in the use of wireless technologies in providing for remote healthcare like the Zilant Wellness Platform and the mPERS Pendant enables caregivers to efficiently monitor patients at dramatically lower care costs.
The Zilant Wellness Platform is a home monitoring platform that integrates a system of monitoring devices and environment sensors to facilitate elder care, chronic disease management and independent living. The mPERS Pendant is a personal emergency response device worn around the neck. It will continuously monitor activity, location and can detect falls. It will manually or automatically initiate two-way voice communication for emergency response while simultaneously transmitting relevant data such as location and relevant personal information to the pre-designated parties.
"We're teaming up with Embedded Wireless to make in-home remote patient monitoring simpler and more effective for healthcare organizations to deploy and scale," said Chris Penrose, senior vice president, AT&T Emerging Devices. "Systems can be fully operational at home within hours of a patient's discharge from the hospital, giving caregivers and healthcare providers the ability to remotely monitor data gathered by home based sensors and monitoring devices - all over the nation's largest 4G network."
The Zilant Wellness Platform, now being piloted in eldercare environments in the USA and Europe, is expected to launch later this year.
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