POSTS TAGGED AS telemedicine

You Tube Video on Digital Surgery

Operating room of the future
What is digital surgery, and how might it be used?  No one knew the answer to [MORE]

“Dr. Alexa,” HIPAA, and Telemed

Amazon partners with Healthcare companies
“Alexa,” Amazon’s digital assistant, is now turning from ephemeral information services to medical surveillance and diagnostics.  [MORE]

“BrainNet” Links Three Minds to One Problem

Gaming through brainwaves
This piece might recall the old saw that a camel is a horse designed by a committee.  Researchers [MORE]

Smart Body Area Network Architecture Standards

Smart body area network
In 1987, the European Telecommunications Institute established a standards protocol that allowed systems in different European countries [MORE]

Cheap, Simple Home Diagnostics

Silicon chips for iPhone diagnostics
Imagine this: a nanoscale, porous silicon chip that is coated with chemicals that can attract proteins [MORE]

Injectable Cardiac Monitor

 
BIOMONITOR III injectable heart monitor
BIOTRONIK (Lake Oswego, OR) has released its next generation injectable heart monitor. “It is designed to [MORE]

Observing Vital Signs at Night

Oxehealth’s Digital Care Assistant (DCATM)
Calling it a “Digital Care Assistant (DCA),” researchers in the British National Health System are using [MORE]

Telemedicine, AI and Robotic Automation: NY Presbyterian Hospital

Telemedicine, artificial intelligence, and robotic automation hold great promise for “disruptive innovation” in hospitals, but as this piece illustrates, real [MORE]

Ultrasound Transducer Plugs into a Smart Phone

Butterfly Ultrasound.
Most medical ultrasound machines cost between $20,000 and $75,000, though some go for well more than $100,000, not including [MORE]

Brain Surgery at a Distance

Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS)
At the time (September 2001), Operation Lindbergh was the darling of telemedicine.  It involved using a Zeus [MORE]

CMS Expands Telemedicine Services

Telemedicine consultation
Last month, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid changed the 2019 “Physician Fee Schedule and the Quality Payment Program [MORE]

Implantable Heart Monitor with Smartphone App

Implantable heart monitor
Last year, when Abbott Laboratories acquired St. Jude Medical it picked up an implantable heart monitor which already [MORE]

International eICU monitoring

Telemedicine model
Heretofore, licensure has limited telemedicine across state and international boundaries. A physician licensed in Idaho, for example, couldn’t do [MORE]

The Virtual Hospital

 
Connect Care Virtual Hospital
Intermountain Health’s 22 hospitals and clinics in Utah are now relying on a telehealth service called “Connect [MORE]