NFC in Personal Connected Health
NFC Forum Developers Spotlight
March 2014
Chuck Parker, Executive Director
Continua Health Alliance
Plug into opportunity
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What We Do: Ensuring Connectivity in Personal
Connected Health (PCH)
• Publish Design Guidelines that combine & apply existing
standards to create an end-to-end, plug-and-play
ecosystem in PCH
• Certify products, systems and services for compliance
with Continua’s Design Guidelines
• Promote favorable operating climate for PCH through
advocacy & coordination
• Creating a global market for personal connected health
• Connect leading technology developers, innovators and
healthcare organizations
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How We’re Different
Only organization convening global technology
standards in Personal Connected Health (PCH)
Uniquely focused on end-to-end, plug-and-play
connectivity to advance the PCH ecosystem
Founder of the Personal Connected Health
Alliance (PCHA), with HIMSS and mHealth Summit,
to represent the voice of consumers in PCH
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A New Global Standard
International Telecommunication Union (ITU)
11073
Sensors PAN Transport EHRs
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Continua’s Architecture: Enabling PCH at the Interface
Health
Record
Network
(HRN)
Interface
Personal Device
Weight Scale
Pulse Oximeter
Independent
Living Activity
Cardio / Strength
Medication
Adherence
Glucose Meter
Pulse /
Blood Pressure
Thermometer
Physical Activity
Peak Flow
Electrocardiogram
Insulin Pump
Aggregation
Manager
Personal
Area
Network
(PAN)
Interface
Wide
Area
Network
(WAN)
Interface
Telehealth
Service
Center
Health
Records/
Networks
EHR
PHR
NHIN
HIE
WiFi, 2G, 3G &
4G
Consumer Interfaces
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Proximity Technologies
Key Characteristics to Succeed in Connected Health
• Continuous
• Reliable
• User-friendly
– Simple pairing
– Long use
• Secure
• Cost-effective
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Proximity Technologies
Opportunities in Connected Health
• Condition management: wireless glucose monitoring in diabetes
• Fitness & wellness: home-based tracking of exercise and sleep
• Prevention: pre-diabetes, pre-hypertension
• General health management: weight loss tracking
• Aging in place: motion sensing, medication reminders
• Public health & safety
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NFC/Continua Certified: Wellness Connected
• A&D Medical & SONY
• Enables access to health information anywhere, anytime
– Devices fitted with NFC send data to smart phone or computer
– Uses SONY’s RCS360/S, NFC USB Dongle for contactless transactions/personal authentication
– Other devices include BP monitor, weight scale, activity monitor
– Works with Microsoft HealthVault, Wellness Connected Android App
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NFC/Continua Certified: Home Health Hub
• Freescale
• Handles all wired and wireless protocols for cloud computers
• Analyzes data and displays on a tablet
• Works with BP monitors, blood glucomters, weight scales, pulse oximeters and more
• Microsoft HealthVault compatible
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Disaster Management Use Case:
Disaster Cardiovascular Prevention Network (DCAP)
• Remote blood pressure monitoring for earthquake
survivors in an evacuation camp
• Objective: prevent CV events in high risk survivors
• Deployed novel solution with component devices
previously certified by Continua
– NFC ID cards and readers
• Participants self-monitored; data uploaded from evacuation
camp and relayed to Jichi University for physician review;
• According to participating companies, deploying certified technologies: – reduced launch time by ten weeks (84%)
– saved USD 139,000
• Program credited with saving lives
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DCAP Technical Solution
Alive: Gateway firmware development
Panasonic: PC
Toppan Forms: NFC ID cards and NFC card
reader
Ryoyo Electro: Data center/server
Qute: Web application development
Intel: Project coordination
A&D: Fully automatic blood pressure
monitors
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Patient ID card and
ID card reader
3G Data Transmission
Module
Gateway Blood Pressure
Monitor with
BT
Internet
Cloud / Data
Center
Data Server
System
PC
Data viewer
Web
application
DCAP System Configuration
←Standards
→
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Healthcare Delivery: Denmark
• Adopted reference architectures and national standards
for health IT
• Uses: – secure collection, transmission and storage of personal
health data from patients’ homes to healthcare providers
across the country
– sharing of medical documents and images
– management of health records, medical appointments and
other related information
– enable independent living
– develop chronic disease programs
• Ensures personal health devices and services are easy
to deploy, secure and convenient for patients and
providers
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Continua Health Alliance The Engine for a Plug and Play World
Chuck Parker
Executive Director
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