POSTS TAGGED AS telemedicine

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]

A Wearable to Detect Pneumonia

Smart Jacket Detects Pneumonia in Children
This piece is about a wearable stethoscope, in the form of a sensored jacket that [MORE]

Enhanced Nursing Licensure Agreement with 29 States

Nurses and Telemedicine
Telemedicine has prompted an expansion of interstate nursing licensure, now extending to 29 states. Here are the standards [MORE]

The Space called “Digital Therapeutics”

Corrie Health App
This piece defined “digital therapeutics” this way: “Today’s modern mobile health devices feature software applications (apps) designed to [MORE]

Telemed on Wheels

Mobile Stroke Unit
“The golden hour” is a term referring to the time-window a stroke victim has when treatment is most [MORE]

Implantable Cardiac Monitor Connects to Smartphones

Confirm-Rx Cardiac Monitor
“Abbott received FDA clearance for the Confirm Rx implantable cardiac monitoring device that wirelessly connects to the patient’s [MORE]

Implantable Sensor Measures Intraocular Pressure

Eyemate Continuous IOP Monitor
With a new device called “Eyemate” (from Implandata, Hanover, Germany), an eye surgeon can insert a interocular [MORE]

Remote Sonography

Telerobotic Ultrasound System – Patient Site
This piece describes a technology “in progress:” telerobotic ultrasound. Researchers at the University of Saskatchewan [MORE]

Bandage Delivers Timed Medications

Prototype of Smart Bandage
Quoting directly: “Imagine if a wound dressing could release fresh doses of medication over time, oreven different [MORE]

Most Common Objectives of Telemedicine

Telemedicine
According to this piece the ten most common objectives in telemedicine are: increasing patient engagement and satisfaction; improving patient convenience; [MORE]

A Vest that Uses Radar to Image Lungs

SensiVest Fitting
Ohio State University is conducting a clinical trial of a vest, made by Sensible Medical (Netanya, Israel) that uses [MORE]