Vital cardiac information, is now more accessible
thanks to a wireless heart monitoring solution from Mednet Healthcare
Technologies, powered by AT&T's wireless technologies.
Mednet,
a leading provider of cardiac monitoring products and surveillance
services, is helping doctors and patients remotely monitor heart
arrhythmia through personal mobile devices.
Under a new contract with
AT&T, Mednet's HEARTRAK External Cardiac Ambulatory Telemetry
(ECAT) solution will facilitate wireless monitoring of patient devices
via Bluetooth-enabled cell phones across AT&T's expansive 3G and
EDGE wireless data footprint, which covers more than 13,000 cities and
towns and 40,000 miles of highway across the country.
Until
now, patients using Mednet heart monitors utilized a toll-free number
and had to place their monitoring device near a landline phone receiver
to send a signal to a central monitoring center. With the new ECAT
solution, patient data will be automatically transmitted via
Bluetooth-enabled mobile devices, which synchronize with the heart
monitor to streamline data transfer and enhance ease of use.
Using
AT&T's wireless network, the ECAT solution will allow the
monitoring device to automatically record and send real-time patient
data to a central monitoring center, where physicians can access and
review the data. In addition to wireless monitoring, Mednet will also
use AT&T voice services so cardiac technicians and physicians can
quickly reach out to patients if needed.
"Using
AT&T's wireless network, physicians will now be able to instantly
monitor a patient's heart from virtually any location, making this one
of the latest steps in advancing patient care," said Frank Movizzo, CEO
of Mednet. "We look forward to expanding heart monitoring capabilities
with AT&T."