PositiveID Corporation announced that its Thermomedics subsidiary has commenced production of its disruptive, next generation Caregiver® thermometer with Bluetooth® capability. Caregiver with Bluetooth will be commercially available in January 2018. Management believes its newest manifestation of the Caregiver product line is an important design advancement. The new device can connect wirelessly to electronic health records systems and patient monitoring stations in hospitals to transmit temperature readings automatically into a patient’s record. According to recent research by Markets and Markets, the Bluetooth Smart and Smart Ready market is expected to be worth $5.34 billion by 2023. Product teams able to elevate next generation devices to take advantage of this trend often experience a corresponding increase in market adoption. PositiveID's FDA-cleared Caregiver is a professional-grade, infrared thermometer capable of delivering an oral-equivalent temperature directly from the forehead in one to two seconds. The lack of skin contact and absence of probe cover supplies eliminate two chief concerns of healthcare facilities related to thermometry: the risk of cross-contamination of highly-infectious diseases such as Ebola, and unnecessary costs related to probe covers – as much as $0.10 per temperature, or an estimated $250 per year per device. PositiveID executives believe its next generation Bluetooth-enabled model holds the potential to boost adoption of the Caregiver line to take advantage of the growing use of infrared thermometry, which is the growing segment of the $1 billion global temperature monitoring device market.