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Iristel, Ice Wireless to offer telehealth services to Canada’s North

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...