Canada’s Blackberry is launching an ambitious project in India to integrate medical devices such as scanners, ultrasound machines and electrocardiograms with their mobile phones. Cloud-based services will enable the use of data and analytics in decision making.
According to the Economic Times, the mobile phone maker is teaming up with California healthcare IT company NantHealth (whose clinical operating system connects more than 16,000 medical devices at 250+ hospitals around the globe) for this project.
“Work has started on it but we haven’t finalized an official launch date,” said Sunil Lalvani, managing director of BlackBerry India. “We are running trials with multiple hospitals in India. It includes integration with different hospital information systems as well as various medical equipment.”
The company’s QNX operating system will be deployed in the medical devices venture. In July, Blackberry launched a version of the software designed for medical devices and said it complies with International Electrotechnical Commission standards.
