POSTS TAGGED AS vital signs

New Medical Smart Phone

Smart Medical Phone
LifeWatch, AG (Rheinfall, Switzerland; US hq’s, Rosemont, IL) claims to have the first medical smart [MORE]

The Swiss Army Knife of Distance Monitoring

Isansys Lifescan Limited (Abingdon, Oxfordshire, UK) has begun marketing its “Patient Status Engine” in the European Union. Its system [MORE]

FCC May Open Wireless Spectrum for Continuous Monitoring

The Federal Communications Commission is considering opening the wireless spectrum for medical body area networking devices.  This would allow [MORE]

WHO Compendium of Emerging Health Technologies (2011)

"Backpack" lab
This downloadable document from the World Health Organization lists about three dozen innovations that are either in development [MORE]

Tracking Heartbeat in Real Time on a Smart Phone

As one of several projects in the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne’s “Guardian Angels” suite, researchers have developed an [MORE]

Low Cost Wearable Vital Signs Monitor

Vital Signs Monitor
Calling their device a “life and activity monitor,” researchers at Oregon State University and the University of [MORE]

Working Toward a “Tricorder”

Scanadu Tricorder
Last year, Qualcomm underwrote an X-Prize for a diagnostic device that works like the fictional tricorder of “Star [MORE]

Possibilities for Touch Sensors

Touch Sensor
Touch-screen devices rely on a phenomenon known as time domain reflectometry, which occurs when there is a change [MORE]

Free Software for Simulating Human Motion

Bioengineers at Stanford have created a simulation program for human motion that is useful for such things as designing [MORE]

Growing Market for Wireless Patient Monitoring

BP Monitor Wristwatch
Business analyst Kalorama Information (NYC) reports that the fastest growing sector (in terms of earned revenue) for [MORE]

Sensored Under Armour

Read this piece thinking not about performance athletes but of people in need of distance monitoring-e.g. CHF patients discharged from [MORE]

Radar-Based Vital Signs Monitoring

Just as radar can detect the movement of an airplane in flight, short pulses over a short distance can [MORE]

Ford’s Medical Monitoring Car Seat

It’s easy to imagine how Ford could design an automobile driver’s seat to sense heart rate, but this report [MORE]

Eldercare Mobility App for iPad

Elderly Mobility Assessment
Here is another illustration of mobility as a “vital sign” among elders.  Researchers at Wake Forest University/Baptist [MORE]