Nokia, a pioneer in the development of mobile Internet technology, will showcase three innovative healthcare Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) applications with its developer participants April 10-13, 2000, in the Nokia booth No. 7538 at the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society 2000 (HIMSS) show at the Dallas Convention Center.
Nokia continues to strengthen its leading end-to-end WAP solutions through developer programs and participation in the WAP Forum(TM), a consortium of industry leaders working together to develop open WAP standards. Healthcare management becomes more convenient and personal with WAP enabled mobile Internet services. These unique applications make information extensible, creating greater freedom and mobility for both physicians and patients.
The following three companies participating in Nokia WAP developer programs will be at the Nokia booth No. 7538:
-- LifeChart.com is an Internet based service that connects patients with
their doctors and helps suffers of chronic conditions take greater control of
their health. Using portable home testing devices, patients can monitor and
report their condition on the LifeChart website, by accessing the web via a WAP
phone. With web access from any location, the doctor can then prescribe
medication or schedule office visits from anywhere.
-- MDinTouch, Inc. is an Internet portal designed
specifically to meet the needs of professionals in the healthcare industry. The
MDinTouch Internet solution extends healthcare computing beyond the PC, by using
WAP to make patient information available anywhere. With WAP, a mobile phone can
be used to access medical information such as patient reports, medication lists,
and allergy lists -- creating greater freedom and mobility for physicians and
their office staff.
-- MedicinePlanet, Inc. is dedicated to providing travelers
worldwide with comprehensive health services, information, tools and products
before, during and after any journey. The company's website, www.medicineplanet.com,
offers personalized pre-trip planning tools, country-by-country information and
specialized content, as well as travel insurance and travel health products.
MedicinePlanet will use WAP to provide travelers with access to healthcare
assistance services and information resources while on the road.
"We are delighted to work with LifeChart.com, MDinTouch and MedicinePlanet.com to bring their innovative services to mobile devices," said Monica Hamilton, director of global strategic partnership programs, Nokia. "Using the Nokia WAP Server and the Nokia 7190, health related companies including LifeChart.com, MDinTouch and MedicinePlanet.com can quickly bring new and innovative services to this growing community of mobile Internet users."
The Nokia WAP Server is the world's most recognized WAP server, allowing businesses to fully leverage the power and functionality of their service offerings in a mobile environment. It is an open server platform for mobile applications that lets companies maintain control over end-to-end security of access to data and customer traffic between the wireless network and the Internet or their own internal networks. The Nokia WAP Server complies with the WAP 1.1 standard specification and sets the industry milestone with its security option, the first commercially available implementation of the Wireless Transportation Layer Security (WTLS).
The Nokia 7100 Series is the world's first WAP 1.1 compliant handset and new line of media phones designed to enable easy and secure access to Internet based content and other advanced telephony services. The Nokia 7100 Series product line in the Americas will include the Nokia 7190 (GSM 1900) and the Nokia 7160 (tri-mode AMPS/ TDMA 800/TDMA 1900), both available during the first half of 2000.
Nokia offers a number of services to WAP developers including a WAP Developers Toolkit on the Nokia Wireless Data Internet site at www.forum.nokia.com. With the Nokia WAP Toolkit, developers have a realistic environment for writing, testing, de-bugging and running applications on a PC-based simulator of a WAP handset. The software and basic support is free of charge.
For individuals responsible for managing increasingly complex network architectures within healthcare, Nokia provides world class IP-networking products, specifically designed to reside between infrastructure and content to enable secure, reliable, and scalable healthcare network environments. Nokia IP Security platforms and the Nokia WAP Server technology address the regulatory requirements within healthcare as well as enabling innovative IP Network infrastructure.
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