POSTS TAGGED AS Medical Automation

Acoustic Sigh

Engineers as universities in England and Italy have developed a device that uses laser sensors, cameras, GPS, and directional sounds-not [MORE]

Aneesh Chopra Appointed Chief Technology Officer

At the 2008 Medical Automation Conference, then Secretary of Technology for the Commonwealth of Virginia, Aneesh Chopra, gave a keynote address [MORE]

Device Advice

There aren’t many, if any, better sources of information about medical devices than the FDA’s website “Device Advice.”  It gives [MORE]

Richard Stein Develops Mathematical Model for Micropumps in Medical Diagnostics

Richard Stein
Determining the residual viral load after antiviral therapies is a difficult problem.  However, Richard Stein, at the Fraunhofer Institute [MORE]

RAND-Europe Study on RFID in Healthcare

The independent research organization, RAND, has prepared a downloadable study of RFID applications in healthcare, with cost-benefit comparisons for different [MORE]

Personal Medical Monitoring

Home Health Monitor

Tagline searches for new ideas in personal medical monitoring, but Emily Singer’s piece in the Technology Review on [MORE]

Aneesh Chopra, Chief Technology Officer

Aneesh Chopra
On Saturday, Apr. 18, during his radio address, President Obama named Virginia’s Secretary of Technology, Aneesh Chopra, as the [MORE]

Ups and Downs in Storefront Clinics

Telemedicine is still looking for its economic footing.  CVS Caremark is temporarily closing ninety of its 550 MinuteClinics now that [MORE]

RFID Studies

The Europe’s Information Society has an online studies about RFID solutions: most relevant areas for deployment; enablers, obstacles, and uncertainties; [MORE]

Robotic Eating Aid

Bestic Arm
Bestic is a Swedish company that makes a robotic arm to assist a disabled person with eating.  It can [MORE]

Nursing Technologies

In a report that addresses eight technologies-such as electronic medication administration with bar coding and wireless patient monitoring solutions, the [MORE]

Three New Texts on Medical Automation

Systems Engineering Approaches to Medical Automation, Robin Felder and Majd Alwan, Editors (ISBN 978-1-59693-164-0, from Artechhouse.com, 2009);
LifeScience Automation Fundamentals and [MORE]

Emerging Markets for Advanced Biomaterials

BioWorld Today and Medical Devices Daily has a 200 page market analysis (cost $599) for biomaterials, covering such things as [MORE]

Nursing Innovation through Technology: Ideas to Implementation

Over the past two decades healthcare organizations,professional associations and the Institute of Medicine have warned the American public that failure [MORE]