POSTS TAGGED AS telemedicine/telehealth

A Happiness Monitor

Monitoring staff "happiness"
Let’s first consider this quote: “You might think that happiness is something ineffable, an elusive state of being [MORE]

Scanadu’s “Scout” Tricorder

Scanadu tricorder
The $10m X Prize competition for a Star Trek-like “tricorder” already is bringing some new consumer diagnostic [MORE]

Microscope/Telescope for the iPhone

iPhone Microscopes/Telescopes
This piece shows 14 microscope and telescope devices for the iPhone 4, but doesn’t give more than a [MORE]

Trends in Connected Health

Based on a consumer survey last year, this piece outlines some of the issues in using electronic devices for [MORE]

Putting Your Smart Phone Where Your Mouth Is

Engineers at Stanford have built a prototype for a smart phone clip-on (over the phone’s camera) that illuminates the [MORE]

Questioning Hospital-at-Home Programs

Hospital at Home
Neither Medicare nor most private insurers support hospital-at-home programs at present, but evidence in favor of [MORE]

Wireless Skin Patch Monitors

Electronic Skin Patch from the Rogers Lab
Researchers at the University of Illinois @ Urbana-Champaign have developed an extremely thin, [MORE]

Vodafone Pursuing mHealth

Health care now accounts for one in five American jobs—more than that of manufacturing—and a third of all new [MORE]

Implantable Sensor for Telemonitoring Intracranial Pressure

Telemetry systems that allow heart failure patients to be monitored at home are becoming increasingly common, but this report [MORE]

Psychology of mHealth

Psychology – medical device use
Physicians treating hypertension often recommend that the patient buy a blood pressure meter, record its [MORE]

National Health Strategy: an App and a Pill

In the British Museum’s Wellcome Gallery, two long stretches of fabric, each with 14,000 drugs sewn into tiny pouches, [MORE]

AT&T Development Center for Healthcare

For those who missed Robert Miller’s talk about AT&T’s healthcare innovations at last December’s Medical Automation conference, this piece [MORE]

Sprint Enters Mobile Health

Like Verizon and AT&T, Sprint is moving into the healthcare space with its partner, Toronto-based Ideal Life, a maker [MORE]

Kaiser’s Mobile App

Kaiser Permanente has introduced a mobile app that gives its 9 million subscribers cell phone access to their medical [MORE]