POSTS TAGGED AS telemedicine

“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]

Taking Blood Pressure with a Touch on a Smartphone

Blood Pressure App
Engineers at Michigan State University, University of Maryland, and Chonnam National University (South Korea) have built in an [MORE]