POSTS TAGGED AS telemedicine

60 Diabetics on Facebook Participate in Online Clinical Trial

Mendor’s 3G-Enabled Wireless Blood Glucose Meter
Using Facebook to recruit diabetics, a Scottish CRO, eClinical Health, Ltd., evaluated Mendor’s (Espoo, Finland) [MORE]

Robust Dipstick Urinalysis

Stanford Home Urine Test
For diabetics, first it was the DIY urine dipstick in 1956, then the personal glucometer for home [MORE]

Eye Examinations via iPhone

Visoclip and Visoscope iPhone Eye Exams
In 1915, Francis Welch and William Allyn began a company that made the first handheld [MORE]

University of Washington’s “Spiro Call” for Lung Assessment

Testing SpiroSmart
Over the years we’ve seen a few smartphone applications for measuring lung function as a spirometer does. But in [MORE]

Electronic Tattoos; Amazing

Tattoo
I’ll leave it to the scientists and engineers among our readers to figure out a medical application for electronic ink; [MORE]

Smart Glove Translates Sign Language to Speech

Sign Language Glove
A student at the University of London has created “SignLanguageGlove,” which converts the hand movements of signing into [MORE]

Menstrual Cup with Smartphone Reporting

Loon Cup
Loon Labs, Inc. (San Francisco, CA) is a Kickstarter funded company that has produced a sensor embedded cup which [MORE]

Is Your Phone Smarter than Your Shrink?

Smartphone
Does excessive cellphone use contribute to depression, or do depressed people simply use their phones more, constantly checking on emails, [MORE]

Thinking a Robot through Its Paces

Telepresence Robot for Disabled
In a remarkable demonstration of the brain-computer interface, disabled people in three European countries were able to [MORE]

Cleveland Clinic’s $49 Telemed Consult

Handheld Electronic Device
Cleveland Clinic doesn’t grasp at every healthcare innovation, but when it sees a technology that can efficiently and [MORE]

21st Century Cures Act

Personalized Medicine
In case you thought you’d never live to see a unanimous vote on anything in Congress, recall HR 6, [MORE]

Perspective on Telemedicine

Telemedicine
It may be that the Affordable Care Act has now pushed telemedicine to its “tipping point.” By promoting alternative payment [MORE]

Tele-Robotic Ultrasound

TeleHealthRobotics Robot-Ultrasound
It has been nearly fourteen years since a surgeon in New York removed the gall bladder of a woman [MORE]

A Wearable Noninvasive Blood Monitor

EchoLabs Future Technology Watch Monitor
EchoLabs, a startup in Palo Alto, CA, has a wrist watch monitor which it claims can [MORE]