Medical Alert Technology from Israel

I have just returned from two weeks in Israel. I visit at least once a year in support of Friends of the Israel Defense Forces (www israelsoldiers.org) and Shurat Hadin (www.israellawcenter.org), an organization that sues terror organizations to break their backs financially . I also go to investigate new breakthroughs and business opportunities in medical alert technology. Israel is a small country, about the size of New Jersey. It has two natural resources, (a) minerals from the Dead Sea, and (b) brainpower. There are thousands of interesting technologies developed in Israel, Some of the products we are involved with include a Dick Tracy style watch phone with GPS developed by Aerotel (www.aerotel.com) Another wristwatch device measures blood pressure, EKG, pulse oxymetry, temperature, etc. and sends this wirelessly back to a monitoring station. This was developed by medic4all, (www.medic4all.com) These devices are in widespread distribution in Israel and Europe, and are starting to be sold in the US. Our rigorous FDA approval process usually delays the US adoption 18 months on average. Other exciting products include medical alarm systems made by Visonic, including medical alarms, automatic fall detectors, and bluetooth wireless medical monitoring devices. See (www.visonic.com) .My company, Pioneer helps introduce some of these products to US markets. Many other Israeli breakthroughs provide benefits here, such as the pill camera. You swallow the pill camera, and it transmits pictures as it navigates through your digestive tract, non-invasively. givenimaging.com)