POSTS TAGGED AS vital signs monitoring

Perspective on Wearables

Verily watch
“From the patient’s perspective, wearables already give their users a sense of data ownership, even at the basic level [MORE]

Lab-on-Skin Technology

Microfluidic Lab-on-Skin
As this piece says, “Of all the mobile devices designed to support medical care, no technology may have more [MORE]

Can Smartwatches Really Alert to Oncoming Sickness?

Smart Watch
The worried-well can now use a smartwatch to say “I told you I was sick.” This piece describes how [MORE]

Home Vital Signs Monitoring Device

OslerMD Vital Signs
OslerMD (San Diego, CA) is moving toward commercial release of its Rapid Vital Sign Measuring Device, which uses [MORE]

24 Hr. Sensors

Lab Monitors Sleep in Special Needs Children
Engineering scientists at Kansas State University are developing and testing a system of passive [MORE]

Smarter Textiles

Smart Fabric
Engineers at Laval University (Quebec City) have created a malleable material, from layers of copper, polymers, glass and silver, [MORE]

Wearable Monitor that Adds Core Temperature Sensor

EQ02 Life Monitor
Seemingly, a new wearable monitor for tracking one measure or another appears every week. The “EQ02 Life Monitor” [MORE]

Wearable Autonomic Monitoring

Rijeva Autonomic Nervous System Monitor
The video in this piece is aimed at crowd funding—maybe even crowd funding among the “worried [MORE]

Advanced Noninvasive Blood Monitor

EdwardscClearSight Noninvasive Blood Monitor
Edwards Lifesciences (Irvine, CA) has received FDA approval for its “Clear Sight” blood monitor—“The inflatable finger [MORE]

An Assisted Living Robot

Giraff Plus Robot
We’ve seen several telepresence robots for such things as physician rounding in hospitals and equipment tugs, but [MORE]

Perspective on Wireless Monitoring

Nonin-3230 Wireless Pulse Oximeter
Compared to high speed gene sequencing, 3-D printing of bones, stem cell regeneration of tissue, [MORE]

MEMS Pressure Sensors

A key problem that has to be overcome in designing tiny pressure sensors (as those used in surgical robots) [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]

Growing Presence for Passive Bed Monitoring

From time to time, Tagline has mentioned companies, such as WellAware Systems and Wireless Medcare, that manufacture sensored bed [MORE]