POSTS TAGGED AS telemedicine

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]

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]

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]

Philips’ Advanced in-Patient Monitoring Suite

You have to read between the lines of this story.   Royal Philips Electronics (Boeblingen, Germany) recently announced its “IntelliVue” [MORE]

Interpreting Echocardiograms in Telemedicine

Digital stethoscopes already allow physicians to listen to a patient’s heartbeat alone, lung function alone, and then, heart and [MORE]

A New Twist on “Home Is Where the Heart Is”

In this “Perspective” piece from The New England Journal of Medicine, the Cleveland Clinic’s Dr. Steven Landers says “I [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]