Bluetooth® Technology has been accepted industry-wide, including healthcare sourcing clinical data. It is an open standard for short-range radio frequency communication. Bluetooth technology is used primarily to establish wireless personal area networks. This allows users to form ad hoc networks between a wide variety of devices to transfer voice and data. Bluetooth is a low-cost, low-power technology that provides a mechanism for creating small wireless networks on an ad hoc basis, known as piconets. A piconet is composed of two or more Bluetooth devices in close physical proximity that operates on the same channel using the same frequency hopping sequence.

Bluetooth Piconets are often established on a temporary and changing basis, which offers communication flexibility and scalability between mobile devices. As an extra security layer, each provider will assign a token to facilitate the transmission of the records.

The token is a self-generating 4-digit character, assigned from providers. Another layer of security for allowing devices to exchange data Point-2-Point, uniquely different on every transmission. ppx-TEC is HL7, FHIR & NIST Compliant.