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Intel(R) Health Guide is the First Product in a Series Designed to Enable More Personalised Care Management for Chronic and Age-related Conditions

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LONDON, Nov. 20 /PRNewswire/ --Intel Corporation today announced the Intel(R) Health Guide, a care management tool designed for healthcare professionals who treat patients with chronic conditions, for the UK. The Intel Health Guide represents Intel's entry into a new category of personal health systems that go beyond the simple remote patient monitoring systems available today.

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The Intel Health Guide, a regulated device that carries the CE mark under the EU Medical Device Directive, is a comprehensive personal health system that combines an in-home patient device -- the Intel Health Guide PHS6000 -- as well as an online interface -- the Intel(R) Health Care Management Suite -- allowing clinicians to monitor patients in their homes and manage care remotely. Additional localised European language versions of the Intel Health Guide will be announced throughout 2009.

"The Intel Health Guide is a step forward in offering more personalised and effective management of chronic health conditions in the home," said Louis Burns, vice president and general manager of the Intel Digital Health Group. "Intel has spent years researching the needs of healthcare professionals, carers and patients, and we are now moving to launch a series of products that will help extend care from the hospital to the home. Our products will help address the challenges of an ageing population and rising rates of chronic disease."