Telemedicine consult
“Social distancing,” because of COVID-19, may have been the need telemedicine was waiting for. Almost everything in a medical [MORE]
Virtual healthcare
“It’s incredible. [COVID-19] has done what we couldn’t do until now, because, suddenly, it’s not just the patient who [MORE]
Philips DispatchHealth in-home care
“With hospital beds costing $1,000 to $2,000 per night, the economics of being treated in the comfort [MORE]
Operating room of the future
What is digital surgery, and how might it be used? No one knew the answer to [MORE]
Amazon partners with Healthcare companies
“Alexa,” Amazon’s digital assistant, is now turning from ephemeral information services to medical surveillance and diagnostics. [MORE]
Gaming through brainwaves
This piece might recall the old saw that a camel is a horse designed by a committee. Researchers [MORE]
Smart body area network
In 1987, the European Telecommunications Institute established a standards protocol that allowed systems in different European countries [MORE]
Silicon chips for iPhone diagnostics
Imagine this: a nanoscale, porous silicon chip that is coated with chemicals that can attract proteins [MORE]
BIOMONITOR III injectable heart monitor
BIOTRONIK (Lake Oswego, OR) has released its next generation injectable heart monitor. “It is designed to [MORE]
Oxehealth’s Digital Care Assistant (DCATM)
Calling it a “Digital Care Assistant (DCA),” researchers in the British National Health System are using [MORE]
Telemedicine, artificial intelligence, and robotic automation hold great promise for “disruptive innovation” in hospitals, but as this piece illustrates, real [MORE]
Butterfly Ultrasound.
Most medical ultrasound machines cost between $20,000 and $75,000, though some go for well more than $100,000, not including [MORE]
Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS)
At the time (September 2001), Operation Lindbergh was the darling of telemedicine. It involved using a Zeus [MORE]
Telemedicine consultation
Last month, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid changed the 2019 “Physician Fee Schedule and the Quality Payment Program [MORE]