POSTS TAGGED AS telemedicine/telehealth

Veterans Affairs mHealth Program

VA Mobile Healthprovider
This doesn’t sound like cutting edge progress, but the fact that the Veterans Health System is proceeding with [MORE]

UCSF and Samsung’s Center for Digital Healthcare Innovation

CDH Web mHealth Program App
What might be in store for a major medical research university in Silicon Valley teaming up [MORE]

NIH Program for mHealth

Closeup of mHealth Data Entry Mobile Device
It may be one of the most glaring ironies of modern times that people [MORE]

The Last Decade’s Ten Most Important Technological Advances

Solohealth Station
You may not agree with Becker’s list of the ten biggest technological advances for healthcare in the last decade, [MORE]

iHealth “Smart Cuff” for Hypertension/Endothelial Function Monitoring

iHealth Cuff
iHealthLabs (Mountain View, CA) manufactures several wireless devices for health monitoring—a scale, activity and sleep tracker, pulse oximeter, and [MORE]

“Smart” Toy with Medical Sensors

Teddy-the-Guardian
Add one more smart device for child monitoring—“Teddy the Guardian”—a teddy bear with embedded sensors that track a child’s [MORE]

Turning a Smart Phone into a Handheld Biosensor

Smartphone Biosencor
Engineers at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign have created a cradle for a smart phone that employs lenses [MORE]

mHealth Evidence Database

This may be a little premature, but in the near future, The Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public [MORE]

Gesture-Controlled Electronics

We’ve seen gesture-controlled games, like Wii and Kinect, become popular among kids and assisted living residents.  Now, car makers [MORE]

MIT’s “eyeNETRA”Camera

Raskar with eyeNETRA
Many people might be surprised to know that the pixel pitch of a smartphone camera exceeds that [MORE]

Telecounseling for Postpartum Depression

One of telemedicine’s strengths is in supporting patients with psychiatric problems—particularly for medication adherence.  But this piece reports findings [MORE]

Telemedicine in Virginia

This piece, from the” EHR Intelligence” website, reviews past, present and future developments for telemedicine in Virginia, and, in [MORE]

Visual Database for Human Diseases

Visualdx
At our MedicalAutomation conference last November, Logical Images, Inc. (Rochester, NY) exhibited its commercially available image database for disease [MORE]

Pulse Oximeter for iPhone

iPhone Oxygen Monitor
Masimo Corporation (Irvine, CA) makes the most widely used pulse oximeters in healthcare, and recently it introduced [MORE]