Proteus Biomedical, Inc was featured recently in a Wall Street Journal article on how novel technologies could play a defining role in health care reform efforts by supporting alternative care delivery models and reducing system costs. The journalist, Don Clark, writes in Take Two Digital Pills And Call Me In The Morning:
Proteus isn’t alone. Dozens of large and small companies are turning to wireless technology to achieve what the Obama administration is seeking through legislation: a health-care system that keeps people healthier for less.
Using wireless technology has the potential to reduce costs in part because part of the infrastructure already is in place. With more than four billion cellphones sold to date, a large percentage of the world’s population has access to devices and networks that can send medical data to doctors.
In addition to Proteus, the article notes wireless, intelligent medicine efforts including Corventis, the West Wireless Health Institute, Triage Wireless, Intel, Qualcomm and CardioNet.
