Healthcare Wireless and Device Connectivity

Wireless Conference in Baltimore, MD of the DAS Technology Providers

While I was coming back from Washington D.C., it was felt I just had to attend this conference. It was interesting that some of the large players simply blew this off like the ones we all know, (sorry, not discussng names, because, been hammered before on this, but we all know who) but now private via the "group", let alone some equity funded..OK will stop. But the up and coming guys that are taking names, not minor accounts, but huge big time venues were there. www.solidtechusa.com Seth, CEO of SOLiD made his presentation and showed simply how and where the industry is going and what is important from a building owner side. In other words, what is the right business model today? It is now all about listening to the building owner..pretty simple. It is about providing the enterprise customer and providing the right technology to solve their business requirements. In the coming thirty days, Integra Systems will provide some unique press releases of SOLiD wins that will send shock waves throughout the DAS healthcare vertical. Well of course this as described or press releases will be upon the OK of the powers to be. Congrats to Seth, Ken, Dennis, and the SOLiD team to doing what is right and making it happen through hard work (the key is the core team has been there and done that). Here are a few JPEGS of the latest end to end of the latest technology. If I were a DAS supplier of current legacy technolgoy I would be really concerned. It should be noted that I have not included the multi-carrier model of which I marketed front and center on several blogs. However the single carrier model is killer on those traditional venues. The high power outdoor means these guys are going after big time you know who in "traditional stadium" outdoor, yet alone pushing power when needed indoor. It is now a different ballgame.

Integra Systems, Inc. partners with TCG on project for the National Institutes of Health

Integra Systems, Inc. has recently partnered with www.tcg.com a premier consulting group in the Washington D.C. area on a major project for the National Institutes of Health. www.nih.gov. We are very proud of this synergistic relationship and look forward to providing our domain expertise on projects for NIH as well as TCG.

Integra Systems assists major medical device company in wireless testing and approval in record time!

www.integrasystems.org most recently (February of 2011), completed authorship of test plans and protocols for wireless testing for a multi-mode wireless enabled medical device. In March with our partners we completed the testing and provided the output documentation (100 plus pages), back to the medical device company for the pre- FDA 510k submittal. In between there were some questions that the reviewer had of which we addressed. We are very happy to report that the major medical device company actually received last full FDA approval last week! FDA approval rates for medical devices are down; 19 premarket approvals (PMA) were granted in 2010 as compared with 48 in 2000. Also, the average time to win 510k clearance rose to 116 days in 2008 from 97 days in 2002. There is no question that winning regulatory approval for new medical devices may seen to be getting tougher than in the recent past.

M to M (Machine to Machine) Wireless Interface and Solution for Major Medical Device Company

In 2010 a major medical device company (multi B) approached Integra Systems with a business opportunity. They currently have thousands of medical devices that are being used daily in patients homes and outside the walls of the hospital, but it has turned out to be a logistical nightmare for the home healthcare agency. For example, if there was a problem with the device, the home healthcare nurse would have to respond, using the term in the M to M industry "roll a truck...in this case roll a car." So the issue came up we definitely need "network connectivity"...but how? Thoughts flew, should we add WiFi, no, add connectivity to a POTS line, no..what you need is some type of remote connectivity. When you have ten plus really bright engineers in one room...just can you imagine. With this open medical device engineering team and through a collabrative effort with the partners we came up with a working prototype in less then 90 days. Most people would never have thought that this was possible. This prototype (not PowerPoint) consisted of multiple wireless technologies to include 805.14 to a minaturized web server to outbound GSM/GPRS services. It also consisted of a software UI written for the medical device as well a pretty much total finished integration end to end. The bottom line solution was brought to market with extremely low NRE and a very fast time to market, while everybody brought their best of breed competencies to the table. It was truly a team effort. I say this because a lot of medical device companies struggle for years and millions of dollars are used to pilot or prototype on their own. Seen multiple experiences where the lack of technical synergy and timely execution (to business requirements) misses the window in the fast moving technical medical integration marketplace.


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