Bitter experience: Intel official killed in digital home healthcare market

Former Intel CEO Craig was led by kill-in many new areas, but has not achieved the expected success, while the core processor business into a slump.

The bitter experience of the Intel then streamline, sell a lot of surrounding business unit, focused on the development of processors.

Now, the processor business, Intel began a military buildup, today formally announced its expansion into the digital home medical market's first product "Health Guide", a specially designed for care of chronically ill patients by medical professionals design of nursing management tools.

Intel Health Guide to July this year won the United States food and Drug Administration (FDA) way of listing notice before, that is, 510 (k).

It includes two major hardware and software, one is family medical equipment ", the second is PHS6000" online administration interface "Management Suite" can remotely monitor the condition of the patient and family to provide health care services.

Technical specifications, appearance is creamy white PHS6000, size of about 28 × 9 × 27 cm, weight about 3.82 kg, equipped with 10.4 inch color TFT LCD, internal processor and the motherboard is equipped with Intel, 40GB password protection hard drives, providing RJ-45 network interfaces, four USB interfaces, and supports Bluetooth 2.0 2.0 wireless connections, integrated microphone, speaker and camera support 128-bit encryption and SSL secure connection.

Management Suite is the management software that provides remote video phone, generate reports, develop targeted medical plans, multimedia medical education content, etc., and to support the encrypt data transmission to ensure safety.

The software is currently only available in Windows XP Pro operating system running and need IE6 SP2, the .NET Framework 2.0, Adobe Reader 7 or a later version of the software support.

This product will be listed in Europe and in the near future, but the price was not disclosed.