Cerner Corp, Qualcomm Collaborate To Advance Remote Home Health Monitoring

(RTTNews) - Cerner Corp (CERN), the healthcare information technology provider, and Qualcomm Life, Inc., a subsidiary of Qualcomm Incorporated (QCOM) said they have agreed to extend Cerner's industry leading medical device connectivity capabilities beyond the hospital to the home.

Cerner will leverage Qualcomm Life's FDA listed 2net Platform and Hub to seamlessly capture data from medical devices and sensors within a patient's home, and transmit it to Cerner health care clients through Cerner's CareAware device connectivity platform.

Through this initiative, care providers can remotely monitor chronically ill patients in near real-time to enable proactive engagement to potentially reduce the risk of an acute care episode.

Qualcomm Life's 2net Platform collects, stores and aggregates patient data from connected medical devices provided to the patient, such as weight scales, blood pressure monitors and pulse oximeters. These data values will transmit via CareAware to the Cerner Millennium electronic health record or EHR and is viewable to the patient in HealtheLifeSM, Cerner's patient engagement solution.

Qualcomm Life will join Cerner's CareAware certification program, an initiative that creates alliances between Cerner and medical device manufacturers to better acquire data from devices to integrate with the EHR via CareAware device connectivity architecture.