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How Smart Can a Mouth Retainer Be?

Electode-Packed-Retainer-for-Hearing-
Imagine reading Braille with your tongue. That approaches the concept that Colorado State University researchers are developing with a smart [MORE]

Implantable, Continuous Glucose Monitor

Continuous Implantable Glucose Monitoring
At least two companies (GlySens in San Diego, CA and Senseonics, Germantown, MD) are competing in a [MORE]

Walgreens Adopts Telemed Too

MDLIVE
Following CVS and Rite Aid, Walgreens is testing a telemed practice in selected locations. Late last year, it partnered with [MORE]

Telepharmacy Service for Hospitals

PipelineRx Servicemap
Two things about telemedicine are clear: the benefits are obvious, and the implementation is slow. This piece describes the [MORE]

Teaching Patients to Use Medical Apps

Morristown Medical HealteConnect
Morristown (NJ) Medical Center has installed a “storefront” called “Healtheconnect” in its lobby to teach patients how to [MORE]

Expanded Telemed Coverage Under CMS

Telehealth
Beginning this month, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid will support telemedicine coverage for remote chronic care management, annual wellness [MORE]

Breathalyzer for Sepsis

Joe Kremer CEO Isomark, LLC
Actually, Superman didn’t die of a bedsore; he died of sepsis resulting from a bedsore. There [MORE]

Wearable Autonomic Monitoring

Rijeva Autonomic Nervous System Monitor
The video in this piece is aimed at crowd funding—maybe even crowd funding among the “worried [MORE]

Bacterial Robots

Bactobots
This sounds a little like “Pac-Man”—genetically engineered bacterial robots (aka “bactobots”) that travel to a specific tumor site (cholesteatoma of [MORE]

Mayo to Test Telehealth Kiosks

Telehealth Kiosks
The technology supporting stand-alone telehealth kiosks has existed for several years. Theoretically, they could be placed in hospital emergency [MORE]

Telepsychiatry Cuts Wait Times from Days to Hours

Mercy Health Telehealth Center
Psychiatrists are in the shortest supply of all medical doctors; and only Rhode Island has a sufficient [MORE]

Active RFID Without a Battery

iFind Battery-Free RFID
Until now, RFID systems have come in two forms: unpowered passive tags that have to pass a near [MORE]

Stroke Map for Telemedicine

Stroke Map
Health demographers at the University of Pennsylvania have mapped out the geography of annual stroke incidence (800,000) and mortality [MORE]

Perspective on Wearable Sensors

Rock Health: Future of Wearables
In some ways, the market for wearable biosensors resembles the “dot com” bubble—a tremendous expansion of [MORE]