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Drone Delivery: Meds and Blood

Zipline executives, Cliffton and Wyrobek, present their Platform 2 drone while celebrating over half a million deliveries
“Zipline [South San Francisco, [MORE]

SciTech “Scity’s” “Hospital of the Future”

SciTech “Scity’s” “Hospital of the Future”
“SciTech Scity, a science and technology innovation campus in N.J., is teaming up with Sheba [MORE]

“Dr. Alexa,” HIPAA, and Telemed

Amazon partners with Healthcare companies
“Alexa,” Amazon’s digital assistant, is now turning from ephemeral information services to medical surveillance and diagnostics.  [MORE]

Home Blood Testing

Athelas Remote Blood Testing
Patients undergoing chemotherapy need frequent blood tests to monitor the effectiveness of their treatment and to register [MORE]

The Reinvented First Aid Kit

Gale
The familiar kits for first aid originated in 1888 when Johnson and Johnson manufactured them for railroad workers. They have [MORE]

Designing Home Health Monitors

Home Health Monitoring
This piece offers a checklist of considerations in designing or redesigning consumer health products, taking into consideration such [MORE]

Daily Monitoring of Kidney Disease at Home

Home Urine Test Using-Nanotechnology
There’s not much detail in this piece—not enough to tell whether a pregnancy test-like device that can [MORE]

DIY Home Diagnostics

Flow Health Hub
This piece is a commercial pitch for Cambridge Consultants’ (Cambridge, UK) “Flow Health Hub.” Color-coded cartridges for blood, [MORE]

Medical Innovation Drivers

An executive with Cardinal Health (the pharmaceutical and medical device distribution giant headquartered in Dublin, OH), lists twelve drivers [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]

Retire Well

“The Villages,” in central Florida about an hour north of Orlando, is the nation’s largest retirement residential community with [MORE]

Winners of the 2012 Medical Design Excellence Awards

Freedom Portable Driver
Among the 26 winners shown in this piece are a wearable ventilator, the world’s smallest heart-lung machine, [MORE]

Implantable Sensor for Telemonitoring Intracranial Pressure

Telemetry systems that allow heart failure patients to be monitored at home are becoming increasingly common, but this report [MORE]

Designing Home Healthcare Devices

Omnipod
This piece outlines five principles that medical device manufacturers should use in reaching consumers at home: support and integrate; [MORE]