Greetings valued readers! This is the second installment of our bi-monthly summaries of our favorite posts (difficult to choose) as well as the posts we feel were best received by you, our readers. Our increase in the amount of information that we give to you means that you may not always have time to read everything we post in a given month. We are proud to be able to provide you quality app reviews and the latest mHealth news, so without further delay, here are our second round of favorite posts for February:
Tag: Bluetooth Low Energy
NFC technology will make upcoming smartphones powerful health devices, Gentag CEO John Peeters
Gentag CEO John Peeters explains how Gentag is pioneering the future of body computing with zero power NFC sensors that are essentially disposable.
Bluetooth v4.0 with low energy technology planning for greater penetration of sports and fitness markets
By Tim Bredrup The Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) recently announced the creation of the Sports and Fitness Working Group and is now accepting members. This group will work together to enhance interoperability between Bluetooth enabled sports and fitness sensor products and training computers (Bluetooth Smart devices) and hub devices such as smartphones, PCs, TVs […]
Ultra-low power Body Area Networks from European research powerhouse imec #mHS11
I had the opportunity at last week’s mHealth Summit, along with iMedicalApps senior editor Felasfa Wodajo, to sit down with Julien Penders, program director of the Human++ program at the Holst Center, a division of imec. The Holst Center houses 2500 engineers, computer scientists, and other developers doing disruptive research in Europe very similar to what […]
Health and wellness dominates 2011 Bluetooth Innovation World Cup
Five of the nine finalists in the 2011 Bluetooth Innovation World Cup are developing useful and imaginative health and fitness related applications using new Bluetooth low energy technology.



