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Industry News
(including doctors, dentists, physiotherapists, trainers, insurers
and clinical researchers).
In announcing the move, Ian Gallifant, founder and CEO,
Medelinked said: “Improving healthcare outcomes requires
companies to continually fuel innovation to further improve
the quality of healthcare providers’ customer service. In that
respect, the Medelinked App, for instance, can provide patients
with access to unique integrated support environment featuring:
their securely stored personal medical records; the ability to get

immediate access to emergency medical assistance, as well as
other information, advice and support services including talking
directly to healthcare professionals from iOS, Android and PC
devices; access cover details; get pre-authorisation for treatment
and submit claims - wherever they are located in the World.”
“Brought together with a CRM approach, Medelinked technology on Salesforce platform has the potential to be a key catalyst
for healthcare innovation and the basis for a new relationship
between patient and healthcare professional.” n

Withings Unveils Thermo, an
Ultra-Fast Wi-Fi Connected
Temporal Thermometer
Withings has extended its therapeutic
areas of expertise with the unveiling of
Thermo - a Wi-Fi-connected temporal
artery thermometer with a revolutionary
16-sensor array that provides one of the
fastest, most accurate, non-invasive temperature readings available.
The innovation - which won 2 CES
Innovation Awards, Best in Fitness,
Sport & Biotech and Tech for a Better
World - measures the temperature from
the temporal artery at the side of head,
the new gold standard for temperature
measurement, which provides one of the
most accessible and reliable images of
body temperature, while ensuring a comfortable and sanitary process. Thermo
boasts the new HotSpot SensorTM
Technology: a sophisticated sensor array
of 16 independent infrared (IR) sensors
that can quickly locate and measure the
IR signature and heat being emitted.
With just a point in the direction of the
artery, without requiring any motion or
scanning, the sensors take 4,000 measurements in 2 seconds while a speciallydesigned algorithm automatically corrects for biases, such as skin heat loss
and the ambient temperature. The hottest point is then determined to ensure
the most accurate and reliable single
temperature reading.
Thermo automatically sends temperature readings to your smartphone on the
dedicated application, via Wi-Fi or
Bluetooth, allowing a seamless syn-

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chronization. As Cédric Hutchings, CEO
of Withings, said: "We invented the first
Wi-Fi connected health device, Withings' smart scale, to enable users seamless access to their data to take control
of their weight. Thermo was designed
to have a similar impact on the family's
health routine."
The app gives the ability to better control and manage fever episodes for multiple users, by following the temperature
trend and getting a clear fever status at
any time. It also allows users to provide
contextual information associated with
readings, such as logging symptoms or
making notes of any administered m