The Continua Health Alliance, the international non-profit, open industry organiza- tion of healthcare and technology companies, has announced the release of its 2011 Design Guidelines. The new guidelines further enhance the pathway for complete solutions based on Continua-certified products and services aimed at cultivating the ecosystem of personal connected healthcare solutions.
The updated design guidelines outline industry standards and new specifications selected by the Alliance for devices, services and communications to ensure interoperability, further elaborate on Continua-specific implementations, and clarify options in underlying standards or specifications. The limited release is currently available to members, allowing them first- hand access to the international technology standards that the Alliance is founded upon.
Among other features, the Continua 2011 Design Guidelines incorporate a Bluetooth Low Energy temperatures sensor device profile along with ZigBee networking functionality, which is extended to enable a single sensor-local area network (Sensor-LAN) de- vice to communicate with multiple application hosting devices at the same time. There is also improved user identification guidance on the Wide Area Network (WAN) interface and improved consent management and non-repudiation on the Health Record Network (HRN) interface. The 2011 Design Guidelines are available to members or for purchase by non-members at www.continuaaliance.org.
