GE Expands Mobile Monitoring Partnership With AirStrip
This article was originally published in The Gray Sheet
Executive Summary
Patient monitoring giant GE Healthcare and mobile health start-up AirStrip Technologies are launching a mobile health care application that can deliver hospital patient vital signs to a clinician’s iPhone or iPad.
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