Tech Update

• Alere Medical (San Francisco) launched its AlereNet System. The system combines the connectivity of the Internet with Alere’s DayLink Monitor, which allows caregivers to monitor heart failure patients daily in their homes. The Alere DayLink monitor consists of a display and communications device that asks patients questions about their symptoms. The patient answers the questions by pressing yes and no keys. The new AlereNet technology allows clinicians access to this collected patient information via a secure, password-protected Internet connection.