It is another HIMSS meeting/convention since we have been attending from 1997...however a lot has changed.
It is in Las Vegas of course!
Thus we are in preparation of a great unending number of meetings and figure this will be a super mobility and wireless experience in all regards.
Stay tuned on Twitter and this blog for posts...while this may be really late and not live, we will try to give the latest views on a daily basis.
Our focus will be giving unbiased views on the "who is who" of wireless in this space; at this meeting (while we can probably not cover all) (this includes LPBT, ANT, Zigbee,BT, 802.11x., i.e. a/b/g/n/ac, CDMA, GSM, LTE marketspace, oh yes the (RFID and RTLS must debated space)...sorry this is highly contested area of which there is a lot of confusion)
There is a huge marketplace convergence going in the medical device connectivity space. While WLAN (802.11a/g, and when n become a lower power requirement; there is the busines model of Zigbee.) However Zigbee is being encroached upon the recent adoption of the LPBT (Low Power BlueTooth) by Apple in I-Phone 4. (We think Zigbee is being moved to the BAS side of things...where it totally makes sense) Thus (the Android and I-Phone platform) in all likely, could be become the gateway. ANT is also making it's way. At the end of the day (based upon the convention), we could and probably should see a medical device equipped with a variety of wireless radios; that is dependent upon their specific use model. No longer is the medical device going to need just a WLAN equipped radio, but is must have a multi-mode WAN strategy to provide the total IDN (home healthcare experience).
Medical device companies should look at this as the evolving wireless strategy.
Integra Systems, Inc. has built gateway models of all the above and now is in the process of developing both Android and I-Phone applications to take advantage of the recent announcement of LPBT and also ANT where applicable. We will be working with vendors of site survey tools to implement these design requirements into their software.
In closing on this blog post...HIMSS 2012 will become both tactical and strategic from the the wireless, connnectivity, and mobility side. That is our focus.
