Remote Patient Monitoring

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A cellular-news report on a three-month remote health monitoring trial in New Zealand, running on Alcatel-Lucent hardware and carried out by Telecom New Zealand subsidiary Gen-i for Auckland Hospital. Twenty heart disease patients selected by Auckland District Health Board take daily readings that are transmitted automatically by mobile phone to a secure online database monitored by the cardiac team, with the hospital hoping to extend the approach to patients with other chronic illnesses such as diabetes if the trial succeeds.