Continua's Wireless Standards Choice

The Continua Health Alliance has chosen both a Zigbee and a Bluetooth wireless protocol for compliant devices. Standards make sense for devices that need to be interoperable, and in this case, the lack of efficiency for any given device or application can be justified by this. However, by choosing such a path, Continua may end up down the road with NO home for their compliant products, as several non-standards based solutions are either released, sampling, or coming to market in the near future. In the interim, let the race begin! Untethered medical sensors and systems have been sorely needed, as anyone who has had an EKG can tell you, for a long time....