POSTS TAGGED AS wireless technology

Low-Tech Solutions for the Chronically Ill

Anand K. Iyer, Ph.D., President and COO, WellDoc Communications, Inc. describes what he sees as the number one challenge in [MORE]

Integrating Optical Diagnostics With Cell Phone Transmission

UCLA electrical and bioengineering professor Aydogan Ozcan led a research group to produce a lens-less microscope that can scan [MORE]

Sensored Contact Lens Detects Glaucoma

High intraocular pressure is a sign of developing glaucoma, and while ophthalmologists have means for measuring that pressure, they [MORE]

Spotting Melanomas with a Cellphone

Health Discovery Corporation (Savannah, GA) will soon release a cell-phone based application that forwards a picture of a mole to [MORE]

High-Speed Bluetooth

PSG College of Technology (named for an Indian industrialist/philanthropist on the order of Andrew Carnegie) has superb engineering capabilities and [MORE]

Electronic Contact Lens

Electrical engineering professor Babak Parviz, at the University of Washington/Seattle, has developed a prototype bionic eye-or, at least, a [MORE]

Wireless Digital Plaster for Telemedicine

CareFusion (San Diego, CA), whose business motto is “measurable improvements in patient care,” has funded the clinical trial of [MORE]

3M’s Bluetooth Stethoscope

3M Co. (St. Paul, MN) has released its “3MTM Littmann® Electronic Stethoscope” that can wirelessly transmit heart and lung sounds.  [MORE]

Remote Monitoring of Elders

In a briefing report, the Center for Technology and Aging reviews several areas where technologies can allow elders to live [MORE]

My phone is smarter than your doctor

Kevin Talbot is with the Blackberry Partners Fund in Toronto and according to him: “Smart sensors and smart bandages will [MORE]

$1m Cost Avoidance with RFID

A hospital might easily have in excess of one IV pump for every bed in its facility (not counting several [MORE]

Medscape Phone Demo

WebMD has introduced its new medical application for physicians, “Medscape Mobile,” which contains information on more than 6,000 drugs, has [MORE]

Qualcomm-Verizon Mobile Healthcare Joint Venture

Qualcomm and Verizon, both giants in their respective communications fields, recently announced a joint venture for automated machine-to-machine data transmission.  [MORE]

Growth of Wireless Telehealth

Even without insurance reimbursement, analysts estimate that by 2012 some 15 million mobile and wireless healthcare devices will be in [MORE]

Army Robotic Medics

Over the past three years, US Army doctors have used a two-way audio-video robot to carry out some 200 medical [MORE]

Ultrasound Cell Phone

Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis, William Richard and David Zar, have developed a compact ultrasound probe and software [MORE]

OB Cell Phone Application

AirStrip, Inc. (San Antonio, TX) has recently received FDA approval for its obstetrics application used on the Apple iPhone.  This [MORE]

Verizon Wireless LTE specs

Verizon Wireless has released specifications for its “Long Term Evolution” operating system, and is making those details available to engineers [MORE]

Medication and Care Plan Adherence Technologies That Improve Patient Outcomes

The costs of caring for chronically ill patients are skyrocketing, and medication non-adherence is a principal driver of these costs. [MORE]

Telehealth Satellite

Gujurat—India’s westernmost state, bordering Pakistan—has arranged a telemedicine project with the Indian Space Research Organization (Bagalore) to enhance [MORE]