POSTS TAGGED AS telehealth

Do It Yourself Phonocardiograms via a Nokia 3100

While researchers at Oxford University and the University of Cape Town carried out this R&D project for monitoring heart [MORE]

eHealth on the Way to mHealth – 24-hours Ambulatory Assessment Under Real-Life Conditions

Telemedical devices as instruments to improve health service delivery are an important appliance…

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]

Robotic Assistants

Telepresence robots have had limited use to date, in part because Wi-Fi and cellular services have restricted connectivity.  But, [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]

Radar-Based Vital Signs Monitoring

Just as radar can detect the movement of an airplane in flight, short pulses over a short distance can [MORE]

Home Grown Innovation at Cleveland Clinic

Many hospitals prefer innovations that derive from their own experience, and the ones that actually promote this do the [MORE]

Checking for Cataracts with a Cellphone

Claiming that a new iPhone clip-on device for cataract detecting “gathers more information than a visit to an ophthalmologist’s [MORE]

Free Texting for Drug Authenticity

The World Health Organization estimates that 30% of all drugs sold in developing nations are counterfeits.  And, with increasing [MORE]

Blood Management Programs

US healthcare uses about 14 million units of blood annually, which the Department of Health and Human Services believes [MORE]

24/7 BP Monitor

Sleep and Blood Pressure Have an Interesting Relationship. Normally, a person’s BP drops to its lowest level [MORE]

GE-Intel “Care Innovations” Strategy

“Care Innovations” is the name for General Electric’s and Intel’s collaboration for in-home telehealth services, targeted for patients with [MORE]

Ford’s Medical Monitoring Car Seat

It’s easy to imagine how Ford could design an automobile driver’s seat to sense heart rate, but this report [MORE]

UPMC’s Telemedicine Innovation with Alcatel-Lucent

In early 2013, the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center expects to commercially launch a new telemedicine platform, co-developed with [MORE]

Models for mHealth

Partly because mobile health is a new sphere, and partly due to uncertainty over healthcare reform, mHealth businesses are [MORE]

USDA Funding Rural Telemedicine Projects

The USDA is offering $34.7m in grants for 45 telemedicine projects and 61 for distance learning.  It appears that [MORE]

Tracking Symptoms in Complex Disease

Cancer patients usually present multiple secondary symptoms, such as depression, fatigue, difficulty sleeping, joint and back pain, nausea and dry [MORE]

Insurers Warming to Telemed

Aetna estimates that 40% of hospital readmissions are avoidable.  MetroPlus Health Plan (NY, HMO) calculates that a Medicaid heart [MORE]

The Hospital as a Dispersed Network

So far, no one had put together the pieces to create a “virtual hospital” which actually would be an [MORE]

Grants for Home Monitoring CHF

The Center for Technology and Aging (Oakland, CA) awarded grants this summer to five organizations with projects for remote patient [MORE]