New Website for Adventacare

Please check out our new web site at www.AdventaCare.com
We launched the site just prior to HIMSS11, it is a good start.  As we expand our product offerings and gain more traction in the market we will post updates to the site.  Thanks for everyone's support and input to date, keep the emails and phone calls coming in, we hope to see all of you soon.

Paul Speese

HIMSS 2011

Recap of HIMSS11: Brian Dolan from Mobihealth news reported that there was "renewed energy" and that Himss is back after 2 years in the doldrums due to the financial crisis and recession.  You certainly could not tell from booth 2087. Lesson learned, don't sign up at the last minute without some plan to be near the action. Location, location, location! One of the booths near us reported only one good contact in 3 days. The silver lining for us was our Mobile Centric offering, which is hot in healthcare at the moment.  Speaking of mobile or health, it seemed virtually every company at the show had a mobile aspect to their offerings.  Most of it was simplistic and not very compelling.  We were demonstrating live connectivity between a wide range of Bluetooth vital sign devices including thermometers, blood pressure monitors, blood sugar glucometers, pulse odometers, weight scales, and ECG.  We were demonstrating this live on Motorola Droid, DroidX, Samsung Galaxy Tab, Google Nexus S, LG Optimus, and HTC EVO.  Additionally, we were demonstrating live interfaces of that data to both Google Health and our HIPAA compliant Call Center Alert System Database. Unlike our neighbors we were fortunate to have a steady stream of attendees and exhibitors interested in testing and discussing the systems.  Our  own Hospital of University of Pennsylvania cardiac nurse, Coleen Riley, performed hundreds of vital sign tests on willing "patients".  Overall, HIMSS was a great experience, we met some wonderful people and had the opportunity to share our vision of Mobile Health Monitoring Systems.   

What is driving smartphone adoption and how does that impact Mobile Health adoption

If the Smartphones are a cinch to continue outgrowing PC sales, what is the reason?  Is it that Smartphones are mobile?  Is it because the computing power has reached a magical line that is good enough for most tasks?  Is it because 3G and 4G Wireless Networks are available and provide sufficient bandwidth for most applications?  Is it because Cloud based services provide instantaneous access to documents, files, music, movies, media and anything consumes and business people require?  The answer is an obvious yes to all above and therefore the answer is yes that Smartphones shipments will outpace PC shipments for the rest of time...until there is something better than Smartphones!  How does this impact Mobile Health Adoption?  Is it the analogous rising tide raises all boats?  Studies indicate both physicians and patients are interested in monitoring their health, the confluence of that desire and the explosion of Smartphone adoption surely leads to Mobile Health Application Adoption/Expansion. 

Smartphone Sales overtake PC Sales for the first time

Smartphone shipments exceed PC shipments in Q4 2010 for the first time ever.  According to an article in the Financial Times published February 8, 2011, the FT quotes IDC as saying that over 102 Million Smartphones were shipped in Q4 while only 92 million PC's shipped.  Mary Meeker, formerly  of Morgan Stanley who is infamous for her technology projections had previously forecast this would not occur until 2012.  No one predicted the meteoric growth of the Android Operating System and how that would drive Smartphone sales volumes in 2010.  Now that we have reached this "tipping point", is this a permanent state of affairs?  Will PC volumes continue to grow at low single digit rates while Smartphones continue to increase at an increasing rate?  The short answer is yes.  The more compelling question for me and my company is how will this trend affect Mobile Health Adoption Rates?  Will the increased adoption of Smartphones drive Mobile Health Application adoption rates?  It certainly will broaden the number of people who can run the apps without additional expense and that will only expand as the price points for Android Phones drop over time.  

New Video on You Tube

Check out TECHPODCASTS.com's Carissa O'Brien interview of  Paul Speese at CES 2011.  It was a good opportunity to expose the new Androiter Technology.
Listed below is a link to the video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96Gkkj-ZyBg

Look for AdventaCare Inc to present our Next Generation of Mobile Health and Wellness Monitoring at HIMSS in Orlando next week.  Paul Speese, and Gary Reilly RPh will be demonstrating the new technologies in booth 2087.  We look forward to seeing you at HIMSS!