M2M is cellular technology that enables non-cell phone devises to establish communications using GSM, CDMA or other mobile phone transmission standards. MedApps embeds M2M chips into its products that transmit health monitoring data from remote patients to health care providers - eliminating the need for monitoring equipment to be connected to telephone lines or requiring patients to buy expensive, proprietary cell phones for handling data transmissions. M2M technology reinforces MedApps' philosophy of creating assistive technologies that people will use, by providing significant advantages that include:  

• Mobility - M2M utilizes GSM, CDMA or older, established, carrier networks such as 2G, or Reflex providing reliable coverage virtually anywhere.
• Simplicity - Patients can change their preference for health monitoring devices without having to hassle with their cell phone provider. Plus, by not linking health monitoring to cell phones, a patient's monitoring is not affected every time carriers change phone models, platforms, service options or confusing "air-time" packages.
• Affordability - Patients can use inexpensive 'data only' cellular plans, rather than the more expensive and often complicated voice and data packages.
• Practicality - Having a singular, pre-configured mission, M2M makes devices less susceptible to theft, mis-use, accidental discontinuance of service or having value to anyone but the user.

M2M technologies used by MedApps include:

M2M is most commonly defined as Machine-to-Machine, but is sometimes referred to as "Man-to-Machine", "Machine-to-Man", "Machine-to-Mobile" or "Mobile-to-Machine". Among cellular providers, M2M means "Mobile-to-Mobile" and is used to describe calls that do not involve land lines. M2M is also generally defined to encompass telemetry or telematics using public wireless networks. M2M can also refer to the family of sensors, middleware, software and applications which help improve efficiency and quality by tying together a myriad of sensors with mission critical applications like asset management, enterprise resource planning (ERP) and customer relationship management (CRM).

As the cost of access to wireless data networks (CDMA, GPRS, Mobitex, etc.) has dropped, capabilities continue to increase. M2M technology leverages these networks to bring telemetry to a wider audience.

As M2M evolves, other terms like Machine-to-Human (M2H) and Machine-to-Enterprise (M2E) are emerging to segment the pervasive nature of the M2M term. The M2M device, software, network, and service market is expected to grow rapidly worldwide – some estimates suggest by 2010, the global market may exceed $300B in annual revenue. While there are some 500 million computers worldwide and 1.5 billion cell phones and PDAs, it is estimated there are more than 38 billion other electronic devices that have information perhaps relevant to improving enterprise operations. The M2M market strives to connect these devices to corporations, governments and institutions.