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“Phenomizer” App
Phenomizer-app
Anyone looking for “low hanging fruit” in the area of medical field work technology, might pick up this smartphone app [MORE]
Vital Signs Monitoring at 2-Minute Intervals
Sensiuvitals
Satirist Dorothy Parker once said she pressed the hospital’s nurse call button whenever she wanted to be alone for an [MORE]
Video of Blood Glucose Monitor Construction
Bayer Breeze 2 Glucose Monitor
While today’s drug-store type blood glucose monitors are electronically simple and fairly inexpensive devices, their arrival [MORE]
Graphene for Drug Delivery
Graphene Oxide Sheets
“Researchers from Monash University [Melbourne, Australia] have discovered that graphene oxide sheets can change structure to become liquid [MORE]
Autonomous Vehicle: Hospital Delivery Cart
Savant AGV Systems
The autonomous hospital, like the US Navy’s autonomous aircraft carrier, is an environment where automated technologies can take [MORE]
Wearable EEG Reader
Emotiv Insight Brainware
Philips Healthcare has announced proof of concept for a what might best be called a “thinking cap:” Here [MORE]
Mobile Health Planning, Soup to Nuts
mHealth
Becker’s Hospital Review is a champ when it comes to taking a complex subject and organizing it in an easy-to-grasp [MORE]
Implantable pH Sensor for Insulin Control
Implant Monitor Blood pH
“A team of bioengineers from ETH Zurich’s Department of Biosystems Science and Engineering (D-BSSE) in Basel [MORE]
G. I. Tract Acoustical Monitoring after Surgery
Acoustical GI Biosensor
Gastrointestinal tract sounds may be a new vital sign. Rumbling in the intestines may indicate post-operative ileus, irritable [MORE]
Imaging by Vibration “Signatures”
BCARS
As the National Institute of Standards and Technology reports, a new method—called “broadband, coherent anti-Stokes Raman spectroscopy—has been developed to [MORE]
New Material for Bone Reconstruction
Shape Shifting Material for Bone
Some bone injuries are too big for simple fixes, even with autografting and bone putty. To [MORE]
Polysilicon Brain Interface
Brain Sensor
Neural implants have brought hope to paralyzed people, but hope may out pace reality because of metal materials that [MORE]
Bone Marrow Bioreactor
Platelet Bioreactor
With a “bone-marrow-on-a-chip” bioreactor, researchers at Boston’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital have been able to culture blood platelets, [MORE]
Microsoft’s Home Automation Providers
Home Automation Systems
This piece is not about medical automation, but it does describe Microsoft’s vision for home automation that only [MORE]