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    Vaishali Kamat

    Group Manager, Medical Technology I lead the Connected Health offering at Cambridge Consultants, helping clients develop wireless medical devices and services for hospital as well as at home use. Over the past 10 years, I have been involved in designing devices for diagnostic imaging, drug delivery and surgical applications.

Archive for 'Continua Health Alliance' Category

Remote Monitoring – how to make it work?

By Vaishali Kamat - Last updated: Wednesday, December 29, 2010

Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) is not a new concept but it has received plenty of (negative) attention lately following a cardiac patient study that revealed no benefits. Experts say the study was flawed in its data analysis and thus should not be used as evidence of remote monitoring failure.  It seems obvious that getting individuals [...]

The Continua Health Alliance – where next?

By Vaishali Kamat - Last updated: Thursday, May 6, 2010

Progress in telehealth and telemedicine has been limited by the lack of coordination and standardisation between device manufacturers.  To address this, in 2006 the Continua Health Alliance was formed with the aim of promoting an ecosystem of interoperable health devices. The Continua Health Alliance is a not for profit alliance of medical device manufacturers, technology [...]

Why are telehealth hubs so expensive?

By Vaishali Kamat - Last updated: Tuesday, April 27, 2010

How do you create a cost effective telehealth hub for the home? That is the question that I have tried to answer in my work with Cambridge Consultants. As a result we have developed telehealth hub solutions that minimise the hardware cost, and minimise complexity. As you may have seen from my previous blog posts on the [...]