AMDL Health launches app for RIM's Playbook

Mumbai: Advanced Micronic Devices Ltd (AMDL) launched an application which offers remote patient monitoring system that can be accessed on BlackBerry PlayBook tablets. The application - eTraq - has been launched by AMDL Health, the healthcare division of Advanced Micronic, an Opto Circuits Group company.

AMDL Health, supplier of medical equipment and devices, said though eTraq doctors can access local patient monitors connected to a hospital's central monitoring system. The application helps doctors to make timely decisions by eliminating the need for the doctor's physical presence at the

place where the medical reports are generated.

"Providing real-time critical patient information to enable quick diagnostics is the goal of the application for the BlackBerry PlayBook," AMDL Chief Executive Arindam Sen told reporters here.

The BSE-listed AMDL had posted Rs 72-crore revenue in FY 2011 and expects to earn revenue of Rs 80 crore in the current fiscal.