MARKHAM, ON – Ice Wireless and parent company Iristel Inc. are teaming up with Pharmaceutical Innovation Ltd. to offer telehealth services to Canada’s rural and isolated Arctic and sub-Arctic areas.
Using Iristel's secured cloud infrastructure and Pharm Innovation's products and services, Ice will begin its e-health pilot early in 2017, allowing doctors, nurses and family members to monitor patients and loved ones remotely and in real-time. Services will include ‘Health Espresso’, a Bluetooth-enabled app that collects and monitor a patient’s medical data using an interface equipped with verbal communication and speech recognition.
“This is exciting to introduce such cutting-edge e-Health initiatives to Canada's North, an area filled with rural communities that historically find themselves on the backburner when it comes to technological advances," said Iristel and Ice Wireless president Samer Bishay, in the news release.
“Working with Iristel and Ice is a great fit, not only culturally through shared vision of using technology to improve lives, but because we see it critically important to roll out e-health in rural areas where patients sometimes travel hours and hours to get medical attention we take for granted in urban areas," added Tamer Mikhail, president and founder of Pharmaceutical Innovation.
