Continua Health Alliance (CHA)

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Continua Alliance Launches Presence In Latin America

Eric Wicklund | mHIMSS | May 3, 2013

The Continua Health Alliance is pushing into Central and South America with the establishment of a Brazil Work Group. Read More »

Continua Design Guidelines Adopted For e-health Interoperability

Staff Writer | CIOL | December 20, 2013

An important milestone for global e-health standardization has been achieved with final approval of a new standard that will better enable interoperability between e-health devices. The standard - Recommendation ITU-T H.810 - contains Continua Health Alliance's Design Guidelines providing "Interoperability design guidelines for personal health systems". Read More »

Continua Health Alliance & DMAI To Initiate National Health Survey Soon

Suja Nair Shirodkar | Pharmabiz.com | July 20, 2013

To get in place an updated pan India data on healthcare system of the country, Continua Health Alliance recently entered into strategic alliance with Disease Management Association of India (DMAI) to initiate a national health survey soon. [...] Read More »

Continua Health Alliance Adds Major Communications Providers To Growing International Membership Roster

Press Release | Continua Health Alliance (CHA) | December 11, 2013

Continua Health Alliance today announced that two major communications providers -- China Mobile and Verizon Enterprise Solutions -- have joined the Alliance, adding to a roster of mobile members, including ATT, KDDI, Korea Telecom (KT), NTT DOCOMO - Mobile, NTT, Orange, Telefonica, Telus and Vodafone, that are leading Continua's worldwide efforts to advance interoperability for mobile health devices and systems. Read More »

Continua Health Alliance Aims To Cure Top Telehealth Industry Challenges

Sharon Hess | Embedded Computing Design | May 1, 2013

Striving to cure telehealth challenges - including connected health equipment ease-of-deployment, integration of telehealth data into care providers' normal workflow, and meeting changing patient needs - is all in a day's work for the nonprofit Continua Health Alliance... Read More »

Continua Health Alliance Southeast Asia Work Group Hosting Event To Highlight Market Opportunities And Advantages Of Personal Connected Health

Press Release | Continua Health Alliance (CHA) | October 8, 2013

Continua Health Alliancetoday announced its Southeast Asia Work Group is hosting a flagship event during HIMSS Digital Healthcare Week 2013, highlighting unique business development opportunities, policy initiatives and the advantages of personal connected health devices and solutions for the region. Read More »

Continua Lauds FDA's Medical Device Interoperability Standards

Chuck Parker | mHealth News | August 15, 2013

Reviewing media coverage of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s recent announcement that it will recognize standards for medical device interoperability could give a misleading impression that the measure is of little importance. [...] Read More »

Continua, HIMSS Unveil Personal Connected Health Alliance

Tom Sullivan | mHealth News | February 24, 2014

HIMSS Board Chair and Partners HealthCare Deputy CIO Scott MacLean has unveiled a new collaboration between the Continua Health Alliance, HIMSS and the mHealth Summit. Read More »

Denmark's New Continua-Compliant National Health IT Reference Architecture Available In English

Press Release | Continua Health Alliance | September 23, 2013

Denmark has issued an English-language translation of its national health IT reference architecture, which mandates compliance with Continua's Design Guidelines for interoperability of devices, systems and services in personal connected health... Read More »

Health IT Engineers Rev Up For Another Connectathon

Joseph Conn | Modern Healthcare | January 24, 2014

More than 500 software engineers from more than 100 companies will convene in Chicago next week for the 15th annual Connectathon to work out bugs in exchanging data between health IT systems. Read More »

HIMSS, Continua Introduce Personal Connected Health Alliance

Tom Sullivan | Government Health IT | February 24, 2014

HIMSS Board Chair and Partners HealthCare deputy CIO Scott MacLean on Monday revealed a new collaboration between the Continua Health Alliance, HIMSS and the mHealth Summit. Read More »

HIT Policy Committee Urged To Expand Stage 3 Data Exchange

Joseph Goedert | Health Data Management | December 2, 2013

In a letter to the HIT Policy Committee of stakeholders that advise federal officials, eight organizations urge the committee to include patient generated data from remote monitoring devices in requirements for Stage 3 of the EHR meaningful use program. Read More »

ITU And Continua Heath Alliance To Host E-Health Interop Event

Simão Ferraz de Campos Neto | itu4u | October 21, 2013

ITU and Continua Health Alliance are organizing an event to analyze recent developments in the e-health sphere, shed light on emerging product offerings, and assess the interoperability of e-health solutions developed in accordance with Continua’s Design Guidelines. Read More »

ITU Signs Off Network Spec For Personal Medical Devices

Simon Sharwood | The Register | December 22, 2013

The International Telecommunications Union (ITU) has signed off a new standard for communication between personal medical devices. Read More »

mHealth Rapidly Becoming A Global Movement

Eric Wicklund | mHealth News | December 6, 2013

While mHealth technology may be saving lives in places like Africa and the Caribbean, in Europe, Asia and Australia the results aren't so dramatic. Healthcare is already an established industry there, and the adoption of mHealth tools and services is following a more gradual path. [...] Read More »