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Electricity via WiFi

April 30, 2019 | | Posted in Newsletter

MITs Rectenna
The idea of transmitting electricity through air sounds like science fiction, but researchers at MIT have demonstrated how that [MORE]

Voice Recognition in Healthcare

March 5, 2019 | | Posted in Newsletter

Artificial Intelligence in EHR Software
Here’s one opinion of eight from hospital Chief Medical Information Officers about voice recognition: “Physicians are [MORE]

Wearables for Clinical Studies

February 12, 2019 | | Posted in Newsletter

 
Spire health tag
Litmus Health (Austin, TX) has published a census of wearable devices that might be used in various situations [MORE]

A Stretchable, Conductive Coating for Wearable Devices

May 1, 2018 | | Posted in Newsletter

Conductive MXene Multilayers
MXenes are a class of inorganic compounds, only a few atoms thick, which are used in electronic devices. [MORE]

Augmented and Virtual Reality in Healthcare

November 21, 2017 | | Posted in Newsletter

Augmented Interactive Reality (AiR)
In augmented reality, an enhanced image is shown over an actual view—e.g. the yellow line for the [MORE]

Honeywell’s View of Tele-Wellness

August 8, 2017 | | Posted in Newsletter

Genesis Touch Honeywell Life Care Solutions
If you remember Honeywell’s iconic “T-86 Round” home thermometer from the 1950s, where you simply [MORE]

What to Do about Security Flaws in Pacemakers?

July 11, 2017 | | Posted in Newsletter

Cardiac Pacemaker
How does one protect against a security flaw in an implanted device, like a pacemaker?   The next question is [MORE]

Device Chip Developments

May 16, 2017 | | Posted in Newsletter

IMEC Silicon Neuroprobe
This piece is an overview of silicon based devices that are made on the same scale as cells [MORE]

Implantable Micromachines

February 21, 2017 | | Posted in Newsletter

Implantable Microrobots
Hydrogels have come a long way since Dutch chemist and physician Jacob Maarten van Bemmelen first described their nature [MORE]

Antimicrobial PICC Line Cover

December 6, 2016 | | Posted in Newsletter

With many wearable medically-related devices, it’s no wonder that a clever entrepreneur has coined
PICC Line Cover by Care + Wear
the [MORE]

Developing “Bioelectronics Medicines”

October 4, 2016 | | Posted in Newsletter

Glaxo Smith Klein’s R&D center at Stevenage, UK and Verify Life Science’s innovation group in South San Francisco have announced [MORE]

Highly Secure Active RFID Tags

March 8, 2016 | | Posted in Newsletter

RFID Chip
Hospitals are major consumers of RFID tags for supply chain management, but these electronic tags also serve as real [MORE]

Self-Folding Graphene Paper in Medical Applications

December 22, 2015 | | Posted in Newsletter

Origami
Here’s a medical device idea that’s still on the drawing boards—though it deserves close attention. Materials scientists at Donghua University [MORE]

Microsupercapacitors for Wearable Devices

July 21, 2015 | | Posted in Newsletter

Boron-Infused Microsupercapacitor for Wearables
First, some simple definitions. A capacitor is an electrical device that stores electrostatic field energy between its [MORE]