Wipro Technologies has tied up with Intel to provide medical solutions in rural areas.

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With its new medical gateway solution aided by Intel Atom processor, Wipro is hoping to address some of the difficulties faced by healthcare providers, the company said on Tuesday.

The medical gateway is essentially an intelligent embedded platform, which enables patients, doctors and other healthcare professionals to monitor and track healthcare information from a remote location. The solution enables real-time clinical view by capturing vital data from multiple medical devices, such as blood pressure monitors and glucose meters. Devices can connect to the gateway solution through wired and wireless technologies such as Bluetooth/USB to provide real-time medical data, video and image transfer.

According to Manimaran, general manager -medical devises, Wipro Technologies, ageing population in the developed markets are playing an active role in taking care of their health. “This has spurred advances in remote patient monitoring technologies. But these are beyond the financial reach of a large section of the population in the emerging economies. Wipro’s medical gateway solution would help bridge this gap and enable faster time-to-market for medical device OEMs to launch customised products,” he added.

In hospitals, the medical gateway has the ability to transmit real-time medical data to application servers and physician handhelds. According to Wipro, the low-cost solution would bring about improvements in existing solutions whose adoption has been low due to their high cost.

Intel South Asia’s marketing director for emerging markets, Sanat Rao, said the new solution is an example of how Intel enables groundbreaking applications. “The Intel design house programme provides hardware and software support and training to get products to market,” he said. Intel, however, said that no clear figure had emerged about the addressable market size for this particular solution. “But India will emerge as one among the top six destinations for medical software by 2010,” said Rao.