POSTS TAGGED AS medical devices

Mobile Health at Last Month’s CES

At CES 2012 in Las Vegas last month, mobile health was a prominent theme, with providers introducing wearable weight-loss [MORE]

Medicine in the year 2060

Physicist Michio Kaku predicts how today’s breakthroughs in medicine and healthcare-organ regeneration, nanoparticle drug delivery, implantable robots, “smart” bathrooms, [MORE]

Perspective on Nanomedicine

You’ll have to go to the journal Molecular Pharmaceuticals to get the full text of this nanomedicine review, but [MORE]

Possibilities for Touch Sensors

Touch-screen devices rely on a phenomenon known as time domain reflectometry, which occurs when there is a change in [MORE]

Insight on Medical Wireless Frequencies

The so-called “Great Recession” has deflected innovation from an opportunity the FCC created in 2002-use of ultra wide band [MORE]

New Material for Wearable Devices

If you’ve ever coached a youth sports team, it must have occurred to you how useful it would be [MORE]

Eight Tools for Inventing Medical Devices

You might go back and look in your Christmas stocking in case you missed any of these miniaturization devices [MORE]

Wireless MedCARE and Senior Homestyle Living to Form Joint Venture

Wireless MedCARE, LLC announced a customer and joint venture agreement with Senior Homestyle Living, LLC of Arlington, Texas.  Under the [MORE]

Gallium Nitride as a Biocompatible Material

Researchers at North Carolina State University and Purdue University have carried out biocompatibility studies on gallium nitride-a material usually found [MORE]

Growing Market for Wireless Patient Monitoring

Business analyst Kalorama Information (NYC) reports that the fastest growing sector (in terms of earned revenue) for medical devices [MORE]

Innovations in Wireless and Mobile Health Technologies: In Search of the Tricorder

Innovative wireless health information technologies are enabling health products and services unlike ever before.  More and more wireless solutions are [MORE]

Sony Developing Point-of-Care Devices

It’s just a coincidence that last week’s Tagline had a story about point-of-care devices moving from the hospital setting [MORE]

Innovations from the Health 2.0 Meeting

Remember how your mother nagged you about standing straight?  Now there’s a sensor device, “Lumoback,” that vilbrates if you [MORE]

Proton-Based Body Sensors

Electrical devices rely on electrons for signaling; biological systems signal through ions and protons, which prompted University of Washington [MORE]

Developing Pediatric Devices in Michigan and Virginia

For all the sensitivity to children’s health, it is surprising that most pediatric hospitals are financially struggling and there [MORE]

Designing Home Healthcare Devices

Lots of indicators suggest that today’s point-of-care devices in hospitals will be tomorrow’s consumer products for the home.  This [MORE]

Dirk Timmermann Will Present at the Medical Automation Conference

Dirk Timmermann, PhD, Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Rostock, will present

Software Integration of Medical Devices - An Important Issue in Modern Health Technology

The number of medical and health devices is increasing steadily. Interoperability between …

Sensored Under Armour

Read this piece thinking not about performance athletes but of people in need of distance monitoring-e.g. CHF patients discharged from [MORE]

Trends in Point-of-Care Devices

This perspective piece, from an interview with Tufts University School of Medicine pathology professor James Nichols, describes the cutting [MORE]