POSTS TAGGED AS medical devices

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]

Quality-of-Life Technologies

“Quality of life technologies (QoLTs) are intelligent systems that take into account the abilities, needs, and intentions of the [MORE]

A One-Molecule Motor

Keep in mind that there are as many nanoseconds in a second as there are seconds in 31.7 years. [MORE]

Devices: Electromagnetic Compatibility

With an increasing number of WiFi, Bluetooth, ZigBee, and wireless phone devices coming into the medical domain, problems related [MORE]

Cheap Checkup Via Cell Phone

Caltech may be the only school in California where surfing doesn’t mean days on the waves.  There SURF stands [MORE]

The iPad and the Hospitalist: Video

This video clip, without showing anything particularly new, still illustrates some of the practical and subtle changes that accompany [MORE]

Skype Download for iPad

If you haven’t already downloaded the Skype app for the iPad, here is the link to get it.  The [MORE]

Medically Based Economic Development

Every state and numerous counties have economic development strategists hoping to create clusters of new business around one technology or [MORE]