Always-On Medical Tablet Allow Simultaneous Viewing Screens and Live Consultations

Healthcare-focused tablets with multiple simultaneous viewing screens have been designed to include features such as video conferencing and live TV, allowing consumers to manage medical records, conduct live physician consultations, view three-dimensional (3D) images, and sonograms, collect real-time data from personal monitoring devices, and access information from online sources.

Marvell (Santa Clara, CA, USA), a worldwide leader in integrated silicon solutions, announced a bold new healthcare initiative to drive high performance mobile tablets based on its leading silicon solutions. Marvell's Moby MED initiative promises to give consumers much greater command over their own healthcare and proactive wellness information and decisions. The Moby MED tablet platform is an always-on, high-performance multimedia reference design featuring live, real-time content. The tablet platform is designed to allow physicians to consult with patients remotely in real-time, allow consumers to manage their own health histories in a highly-secure, encrypted environment, make it possible to send and read high-resolution diagnostic imagery, and give users access to online medical information in a light-weight, long-running device.

"We as individuals now must take much more responsibility for our healthcare and wellness decisions--including connecting with personal physicians and proactively managing our private health histories. I believe the Marvell Moby MED tablet platform will empower patients to take proactive control of their healthcare, and will enable doctors to save more lives," said Weili Dai, Marvell's cofounder, and vice president and general manager of Marvell Semiconductor's Consumer and Computing Business Unit. "I believe the Moby MED solution could ignite a telehealth revolution in America. The Moby MED tablet platform features a built–in camera for live video conferencing and multiple simultaneous viewing screens allowing patients--no matter where they are in the world-- to have real-time consultation with a physician while examining an X-ray image, referencing an online medical encyclopedia, and order a prescription from a nearby pharmacy. The Moby MED tablet platform provides everything needed in a mobile medical tablet--from keeping track of blood pressure rates, glucose levels, and other vital data to serving as a virtual medical station in remote parts of the world. With the Moby MED, doctors could once again make house calls--without leaving the office--and provide a much higher, more personalized quality of care.”

Adoption of electronic health records systems accessible from devices powered by the Moby MED tablet platform can save more lives by alerting physicians and patients of dangerous drug allergies and drug interactions when prescriptions are written. Specifically designed for healthcare, the Marvell Moby MED tablet platform drives development of high-performance low-power medical tablets with a built-in camera for live video conferencing and multiple simultaneous liquid crystal display (LCD) or electronic paper display (EPD) viewing screens for convenient viewing of information.

Powered by a high-performance, highly scalable, and low-power Marvell Armada 600 series of application processors, the Moby MED tablet platform features gigahertz processor speed, 1080p full-HD encode and decode, intelligent power management, power-efficient Wi-Fi/Bluetooth/FM/GPS connectivity, 3D graphics capability and support for multiple software standards including full Adobe Flash, Android, and Windows Mobile.

Optional platform features include Marvell's storage and wireless solutions such as embedded MMC (multimedia card), which is a handheld device optimized SSD (solid state drive)-type technology, and Marvell Mobile Hotspot which allows Wi-Fi access that supports up to eight concurrent users connected to the Internet via a cellular broadband connection.

Marvell is focused on the development of storage, communications, and consumer silicon solutions. The company's product range includes switching, transceiver, communications controller, wireless, and storage solutions that power the entire communications infrastructure including enterprise, metro, home, and storage networking.

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