POSTS TAGGED AS smart technology

What Constitutes a “Smart” Hospital?

Smart Hospital
“Technology planned for the new hospital, Houston Methodist’s ninth in Cypress [TX], includes artificial intelligence systems for predictive analytics, [MORE]

Human Factors in Home Health

Moving dialysis to home health care
“When I [Dr. Marty Schreiber, with DaVita] published my first piece on home dialysis in [MORE]

Bandage that Monitors Healing

Bandage monitors healing
“The electroanalytical wound sensors — built on carbon ultra microelectrode arrays (CUAs) on flexible polyethylene terephthalate (PET) substrates [MORE]

Healthcare’s Smart Buildings

Smart building technology
For example, “Humber River Hospital is an affiliate of the University of Toronto and Queen’s University. The facility [MORE]

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]

Smart Body Area Network Architecture Standards

Smart body area network
In 1987, the European Telecommunications Institute established a standards protocol that allowed systems in different European countries [MORE]

Biometric Monitoring Shopping Carts; Get a Grip on It

 
Shopping cart
Walmart has patented a shopping cart that takes biometric measurements (pulse and temperature) much like the monitors on treadmill [MORE]

Ad for Piezoelectric Accelerometers

Compact, Plug-n-play Accelerometer from Measurement Specialties
While this is an unpaid, unsolicited advertisement for motion detectors, it is among the kinds [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]

Smarter Hospital Beds

Electrical and Computer Engineering Professor John LaCourse, at the University of New Hampshire, has created algorithms that can [MORE]

“Smart” Kitchen Countertops

Smart Countertop
It doesn’t take much imagination to see how this “smart” kitchen countertop, developed at Intel Labs Seattle, could [MORE]

My Home Is Smarter Than Your Phone

The Department of Signal Theory, Computer Networks and Communications at the University of Granada has created a smart apartment, with [MORE]

Smart Pillbox

MedMinder Systems, Inc. (Newton, MA) has a new smart pillbox, called “Maya,” that holds 28 days of medications in single [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]