“Here’s a new acronym in a field filled with them: WBAN, which stands for wireless body-area networks, in the emerging market segment of home health monitoring devices. That term is in the marketing material for Halo Monitoring, a Huntsville, AL, company that is marketing a wearable monitoring strap that can detect falls, one of the leading causes of hospitalization and accident-related deaths among senior citizens. Halo Monitoring is demonstrating its myHalo system at the Healthcare Unbound conference in Seattle this week.”
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Neil Versel, FierceMobileHealthcare, 23 June 2009
