Implantable heart monitor
Last year, when Abbott Laboratories acquired St. Jude Medical it picked up an implantable heart monitor which already [MORE]
Telemedicine model
Heretofore, licensure has limited telemedicine across state and international boundaries. A physician licensed in Idaho, for example, couldn’t do [MORE]
Connect Care Virtual Hospital
Intermountain Health’s 22 hospitals and clinics in Utah are now relying on a telehealth service called “Connect [MORE]
Blood Pressure App
Engineers at Michigan State University, University of Maryland, and Chonnam National University (South Korea) have built in an [MORE]
Smart Jacket Detects Pneumonia in Children
This piece is about a wearable stethoscope, in the form of a sensored jacket that [MORE]
Nurses and Telemedicine
Telemedicine has prompted an expansion of interstate nursing licensure, now extending to 29 states. Here are the standards [MORE]
Corrie Health App
This piece defined “digital therapeutics” this way: “Today’s modern mobile health devices feature software applications (apps) designed to [MORE]
Mobile Stroke Unit
“The golden hour” is a term referring to the time-window a stroke victim has when treatment is most [MORE]
Confirm-Rx Cardiac Monitor
“Abbott received FDA clearance for the Confirm Rx implantable cardiac monitoring device that wirelessly connects to the patient’s [MORE]
Eyemate Continuous IOP Monitor
With a new device called “Eyemate” (from Implandata, Hanover, Germany), an eye surgeon can insert a interocular [MORE]
Telerobotic Ultrasound System – Patient Site
This piece describes a technology “in progress:” telerobotic ultrasound. Researchers at the University of Saskatchewan [MORE]
Prototype of Smart Bandage
Quoting directly: “Imagine if a wound dressing could release fresh doses of medication over time, oreven different [MORE]
Telemedicine
According to this piece the ten most common objectives in telemedicine are: increasing patient engagement and satisfaction; improving patient convenience; [MORE]
SensiVest Fitting
Ohio State University is conducting a clinical trial of a vest, made by Sensible Medical (Netanya, Israel) that uses [MORE]