POSTS TAGGED AS telemedicine

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]

Helmsley Trust Funding Telemedicine in Midwest

Leona Helmsley will be remembered at “the Queen of Mean,” and for saying that “only the little people pay [MORE]

Large Telemedicine Study in the UK

Last month, the UK Department of Health released results of a two year telemedicine study of 6,000 patients with [MORE]

Meet “Elizabeth,” the Simulated Nurse

Researchers at Northeastern University have figured out how to leap the chasm between electronic information exchange and real person [MORE]

136m Emergency Room Visits

In one year, 2008 to 2009, emergency room visits in the US rose from 128.m to 136m-the largest increase [MORE]

Telehealth: Assessing Cochlear Implants

Cochlear implants need an evaluation from time to time, which usually is done in an audiologist’s office.  The Ear [MORE]

Passive Home-Based Monitoring in an Era of Telemedicine

Successful pervasive wellness programs require subject compliance and receptivity to personalized wellness information and advice. Novel technology focused approaches can [MORE]

Moving Networked Remote Wellness Monitoring to the Mainstream

Much has been said lately about the notion of reforming healthcare.  One of the most exciting opportunities for satisfying recipients, [MORE]

Telehealth’s ROI for Chronic Disease Management

This piece is only an abstract of a study reported in Health Affairs, but it holds that telemedicine for [MORE]

Cost Savings With Hospital-in-Home

A story in the Camberra (Australia) Times cites a study Deloitte conducted which showed that nurses and doctors doing [MORE]

Founder and President, Guardian 24/7, Dr. Sean O’Mara to Will Present High-End Telemedicine Care

Dr. Sean O’Mara is the founder and president of Guardian 24/7 and inventor of several innovative medical devices.  He will [MORE]

Kiosk Consults for $25

Last year, Ascension Health and Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Western New York made online care available through Mount Saint [MORE]

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]