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Wireless connectivity between fitness and wellness sensors opens up Continua arena.

Cochrane, Alberta (PRWEB) September 26, 2010 — ANT Wireless (“ANT” www.thisisant.com), a division of Dynastream Innovations Inc. and Vignet Corporation, a leader in providing personal connected health solutions, today announced a partnership to launch interoperable, cross-platform solutions for the ANT+ ecosystem.  ANT+ enabled biometric sensors using the interoperable Continua Health Alliance WAN guidelines will be demonstrated this week at the 2010 ANT+ Alliance Symposium, September 27–30.  more

BELFAST, Northern Ireland–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Continua Health Alliance, an international organization of leading healthcare and technology companies, today announced it will begin developing an interoperable source code software library for various mobile platforms. The Alliance has selected Vignet, a leading provider of person-centric connected health platform and solutions, to develop this mobile Continua Enabling Source Library (mCESL) to be made available to Continua Health Alliance members.  more

LAS VEGAS–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Vignet Inc., today announced its Connected Health Services platform infrastructure for mobile health (mHealth) devices and services. The new “person-centered” platform allows users to capture, aggregate, analyze and share data with their mobile devices, leveraging any wired or wireless interface, such as Bluetooth, ZigBee, Bluetooth LE and USB. Vignet will collaborate with IBM, Nonin Medical and A&D to showcase the first mHealth solution, based on the open standards promoted by the Continua Health Alliance, at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) this week. IBM, Vignet and Nonin will jointly demonstrate the solution, which uses IBM’s WebSphere® Sensor Events server software, the Vignet platform, Nonin Onyx® II, Model 9560 Bluetooth^® fingertip pulse oximeter and A&D Model UC-321. read more

BEAVERTON, Ore. & LAS VEGAS–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Continua Health Alliance today announced the first end-to-end connected health solution based on the Continua architecture. Continua, the non-profit, open industry alliance of more than 220 leading healthcare and technology organizations, heralded the development as a significant milestone in the group’s mission to establish an ecosystem of interoperable personal connected health solutions. The new end-to-end connected health solution will be showcased at the 2010 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas on Jan. 7-10 at Booth #2817 in the CES Digital Health Zone. read more