The NFC Forum has published its first specification directed at NFC-enabled personal health care devices, hoping to expand use of NFC technology in the industry segment and reduce the reliance on proprietary implementations.
The forum, a standards and trade group, also has introduced two candidate specifications aimed primarily at consumer electronics applications.
The health device standard, known as the personal health device communication technical specification, defines how data is transmitted between the health-monitoring devices, such as blood pressure monitors or glucose meters, and computing devices, such as smartphones. The health data could then be processed and displayed for the consumer or patient or sent over the network to be processed, where health-care providers could evaluate it.
