Sony launches new B-to-B wearable and mobile health technology platform

Electronics company Sony is jumping into the mobile health technology market, offering a business-to-business wearables solution to rival consumer-facing devices like Fitbit and the Apple Watch.

The company launched a platform, called mSafety, that combines a connected wearable device, a wristwatch, with a cloud-based backend solution to provide payers, health systems, and app developers a ready-made platform to build remote health monitoring and mobile health applications.

Sony debuted the mSafety platform at the Connected Health Conference in Boston and plans a formal rollout of the solution in 2020.