10-07-2009

MDclick and Eurotech Unveil New Diabetes Management Care Solutions

Eurotech, IBM, Roche, A&D Medical, and MDclick demonstrate new Everyware™ Medical Gateway during Continua Health Alliance Fall Summit.

Columbia, Maryland, 07 October 2009 – Eurotech Group, a leading supplier of embedded technologies, products, and systems, announces today the Everyware™ Medical Gateway designed to help physicians remotely monitor and adjust the treatment of their diabetes patients. Based on the open standards promoted by the Continua Health Alliance, the Everyware Medical Gateway requires little patient involvement and helps eliminates many of the impediments typically associated with chronic care home monitoring.

“Remote patient monitoring is a key component of emerging smarter healthcare solutions that offer the potential to not only reduce overall health care costs but also to improve patient outcomes ,” said Karla Norsworthy, Vice President , Software Standards, IBM. “Working with our partners, including Eurotech, IBM is committed to provide complete, easy-to-use solutions that emphasize our commitment to open standards.”

“With industry-leading companies working together on the open standards for telemedicine, an ecosystem can develop and emerge to enable to further growth for patient monitoring applications,” says Arlen Nipper, Eurotech’s President and CTO. “We will continue to advance the capabilities by working with the Continua Health Alliance and visionary companies like IBM, and we look forward to wide-scale deployment of this solution.”

The Everyware Medical Gateway is designed to provide robust and reliable data transmission across cellular connectivity from a patient’s home to their physician. By receiving electronic readings electronically from patients, the physician has the ability to prescribe modifications in near real-time, a key factor when studies by Continua have shown 19 percent reduction in hospital admissions through home care programs.

In conjunction with partners IBM, Roche, AD Medical, and MDclick, Eurotech is participating in an end-end diabetes care management demonstration at the Continua Health Alliance Fall Summit Plugfest, October 5^th to 9^th in Boston. The conference brings together leaders from across the industry to highlight the latest technologies in remote patient monitoring and open standards.

The interactive demonstration will showcase an end-to-end solution using Eurotech’s Everyware Medical Gateway as the device manager collecting data from in-home devices such as Roche’s glucose meter and AD Medical’s weight scale machine and blood pressure cuff. This data is then transmitted to the MDclick health record application via the IBM WebSphere Sensor Events Server. For more information about the medical gateway capabilities from Eurotech, go to http://www.eurotech-inc.com/platforms-everyware-medical-gateway.asp.

The Continua Health Alliance is a non-profit, open industry coalition of the finest healthcare and technology companies joining together in collaboration to improve the quality of personal healthcare. With more than 200 member companies around the world, Continua is dedicated to establishing a system of interoperable personal health solutions with the knowledge that extending those solutions into the home fosters independence, empowers individuals and provides the opportunity for truly personalized health and wellness management. More information on the Continua Alliance can be found at http://www.continuaalliance.org.

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