Continua’s Chuck Parker on Connected Health (transcript)

David Williams:  This is David Williams, co-founder of MedPharma Partners and author of the Health Business Blog.  I’m speaking today with Chuck Parker,  Executive Director of the Continua Health Alliance.  Chuck, thanks for being with me today.

Chuck Parker:  Thank you.  I appreciate the opportunity.

Williams:  Chuck, what is Continua and why is there a need for it?

Parker:  Continua Health Alliance is an association of organizations throughout the world that are focused on the interoperability of personal health care devices.

The real need was to create an ecosystem for these interoperable devices and ensure that they have the appropriate connection mechanisms, the standardization mechanisms to make sure that they all can communicate together. The goal is an end-to-end solution for individuals who need to monitor themselves with health conditions in the home or to provide that information to others who may be caring for them.

So in essence, the Alliance was formed to help standardize the industry of personal health care devices.