MASSDEVICE ON CALL — Beleaguered smartphone maker BlackBerry (NSDQ:BBRY) is diving headlong into digital health with a new smartphone platform focused on medical professionals.
Blackberry allied with NantHealth, which makes medical device interoperability systems, to develop a service platform designed to aggregate data from thousands of devices in order to generate insight into the spread of disease.
The companies plan to offer a smartphone designed to tap into the medical device network to integrate data from a variety of devices, including ECG machines, scanners and other systems. Blackberry’s platform will also provide analytics and decision support, Healthcare Global wrote.
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