POSTS TAGGED AS telemedicine/telehealth

Perspective on the e-ICU

Electronic ICU
In eleven and a half years, electronic monitoring of ICU patients has demonstrated significant decreases in mortality rates, [MORE]

Cloud-Based Remote Monitoring

While every teenager seems to hanker for the latest smart phone, millions of elders just want a simple phone-the [MORE]

Ford’s in-Car Health Monitoring

Is this “the car that cares,” or the Edsel of health care?  Notice in this piece rationalizing remarks like [MORE]

“Edible” Microchips for Distance Monitoring

Smart Pill Monitor
It is unclear whether Proteus Biomedical’s (Redwood City, CA) “Helius smart pill” has gone on sale in [MORE]

Monitoring Vital Signs Through Walls

EPIC
“EPIC” is the acronym Plessey Semiconductors (Plymouth, UK) has given to its electric potential integrated circuit system which monitors [MORE]

Grandpa’s Smart Slippers

GTX Tracking Shoe
GTX Corp (Los Angeles, CA) has introduced a GPS tracking shoe designed for Alzheimer’s patients who [MORE]

New Material for Wearable Devices

If you’ve ever coached a youth sports team, it must have occurred to you how useful it would be [MORE]

Qualcomm’s Branch for Wireless Medical Devices

Qualcomm Life 2Net Ecosystem Graphic
Qualcomm has left the business of making cell phones and pursued ways for making them [MORE]

Implantable Tumor Monitor

Inside an implantable device about the size of a thumbnail, researchers at the Technical University of Munich have placed [MORE]

Monitoring BP With Your Smart Phone

BP Monitoring App
Researchers at the University of Southern California’s Center for Body Computing and St. Luke’s Hospital are working [MORE]

Designing Home Healthcare Devices

Omnipod
This piece outlines five principles that medical device manufacturers should use in reaching consumers at home: support and integrate; [MORE]

Devices: Electromagnetic Compatibility

With an increasing number of WiFi, Bluetooth, ZigBee, and wireless phone devices coming into the medical domain, problems related [MORE]

Telehealth: Diabetes Tracking

Recently, a study group at the University of Maryland reported that their test of automated real time education and [MORE]

Skype Download for iPad

If you haven’t already downloaded the Skype app for the iPad, here is the link to get it.  The [MORE]