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Implantable Tumor Monitor
Inside an implantable device about the size of a thumbnail, researchers at the Technical University of Munich have placed [MORE]
Telehealth’s ROI for Chronic Disease Management
This piece is only an abstract of a study reported in Health Affairs, but it holds that telemedicine for [MORE]
Moore’s Law in Your Ear
Spund Wave
Hearing aids are computers that you stick in your ear, and consequently, they reflect the computational features of [MORE]
New Blood Protein Diagnostics
Aptamers are oligonucleic acids or peptides that bind with specific molecules, and their existence has been known for about [MORE]
“MoleMate” Handheld Dermatology Device
Skin Diagram
Earlier this fall, the US FDA approved a hand held siascopy device, made by the Canadian firm MedX [MORE]
A “Silent Talk” Robot
Robotino
What would it take for a paralyzed person to mentally move a robot around a room that was 62 [MORE]
Designing Home Healthcare Devices
Omnipod for Insulin Administration
Lots of indicators suggest that today’s point-of-care devices in hospitals will be tomorrow’s consumer products for [MORE]
Who Says Doctors Can’t Be Cutups? Videos
This is a second installment of hilarious videos about the art of practicing medicine. If you like the proctologist’s [MORE]
Medical Automation Conference Speaker, Jeffrey Hausfeld Will Discuss Physician Innovation
Jeffrey Hausfeld, M.D., M.B.A., will discuss physician-based innovation and commercial development
Dirk Timmermann Will Present at the Medical Automation Conference
Dirk Timmermann, PhD, Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Rostock, will present
Growing Presence for Passive Bed Monitoring
From time to time, Tagline has mentioned companies, such as WellAware Systems and Wireless Medcare, that manufacture sensored bed [MORE]
Cost Savings With Hospital-in-Home
A story in the Camberra (Australia) Times cites a study Deloitte conducted which showed that nurses and doctors doing [MORE]
Digital Microfluidics
Lab-on-a Chip
Bioengineering professor Aaron Wheeler, at the University of Toronto, has
Dr. Aaron Wheeler
developed an automated lab-on-a-chip system for analyzing [MORE]
“Watson’s” Debut in Healthcare: 2012
If you saw IBM’s supercomputer, “Watson,” challenge two of “Jeopardy’s” all time winners, you know that the “machine” made [MORE]