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Best Practices for eICU’s

Tele ICU
Electronic intensive care units—which use telemonitoring to round on critical ill patients—made slow progress in hospitals before the [MORE]

Hexoskin’s Sensored Clothing

Hexoskin Shirt Measuring Breathing Volume
In another month or so, the Canadian firm Hexoskin (Montreal) will begin marketing its sensored [MORE]

Sensored Belt Allows Continuous ECG Monitoring for Two Weeks

EKG Monitor
Based on developing “dry” electrodes, which do not need a gel to transmit a heartbeat pulse to an [MORE]

Smart “Pill” Device for Occult Blood in GI Tract

GOB
Traces of blood in the stool are alarming, and even more so because it is difficult to discover if [MORE]

Wrist Worn BP Monitor

ViSi Mobile
As one medical automation authority said, “[this device] is a complete wireless ambulatory ICU,” referring to “ViSi Mobile” [MORE]

Case Studies of Remote Patient Monitoring

Remote Patient Monitoring
The Center for Aging Services Technologies (CAST, Washington, DC) authored this white paper which presents six case [MORE]

Mayo Clinic’s Wide Area Remote Monitoring

Enhanced Critical Care Monitoring
Mayo Clinic has created its “Enhanced Critical Care Program,” 24/7/365, for its sickest patients and the [MORE]

Microsoft’s “Lab of Things” for Home Automation

Home-OS-Lab-of-Things
We’ll have to see if Microsoft’s “virtual dashboard” for home automation works as well for monitoring things like sleep, [MORE]

“Smart” Toy with Medical Sensors

Teddy-the-Guardian
Add one more smart device for child monitoring—“Teddy the Guardian”—a teddy bear with embedded sensors that track a child’s [MORE]

A Smart Walking Cane

Iso Walk Cane
This piece is both a commercial advertisement and an appeal for funding, but the product and projections [MORE]

Tremor Stabilizing Device

Lift Spoon
By now, the “Lift Lab” spoon from Lynx Design (San Francisco, CA) should be commercially available.  This device [MORE]

InTouch and iRobot Work Together in Telestroke Program

inTouch Health Robot and Nurse
Several California hospitals have contracted a 24/7 emergency telemedicine provider to screen possible stroke patients [MORE]

Smart Thermometer for iPhone

Smart Thermometer
Kinsa, a New York City startup, plans to bring out a thermometer and smartphone app that can [MORE]

Wireless Monitoring and Feedback Device/Software for Managing Asthma

Attaching Sensor
This page is a commercial site for a Madison, WI start up, “Asthmapolis,” which has developed a [MORE]