“While coverage for telehealth systems by private insurers and Medicare/Medicaid is patchy at best, new report predicts some 15 million wireless devices will be in use by early 2012 to remotely monitor the well-being of elderly or at-risk people. Using embedded cellular connectivity, telehealth devices can collects vital signs wirelessly from a range of external devices such as weight scales and blood pressure cuffs.”
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Roy Mark, eWeek, 22 July 2009
