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NewsSmartphone-based ultrasound awaits FDA clearance
One of the developers of a prototype ultrasound probe that connects to a smartphone is involved in a startup company that could bring the phone-based ultrasound to market next year if the FDA grants Read more...
'Body-to-body' networks could serve healthcare, make Internet more mobile
Researchers at the Institute of Electronics, Communications and Information Technology at Queens University in Belfast, Northern Ireland, are studying how wearable sensors might not only help keep Read more...
Qualcomm, Cambridge Consultants partner on Continua-certified cellular device
Wireless telecommunications equipment maker Qualcomm continues its foray into mobile healthcare by joining with British technology developer Cambridge Consultants to create a standard wireless Read more...
Partners study shows higher med adherence with 'smart' pill bottles
Patients who used a pill-bottle cap with a wireless transmitter to track medication adherence were far more likely to stay on their drug regimens than those in a control group, preliminary results of Read more...
Wi-Fi use in healthcare jumps 60 percent since last year, ABI Research says
Just as the Department of Veterans Affairs was revealing plans to install Wi-Fi for patients and visitors in hundreds of facilities, along comes a new report from ABI Research to confirm that Wi-Fi Read more...
New mobile gateway for wireless monitors claims 'universal' connectivity
A Canadian developer of personal health monitors claims to be the first company to offer a wireless health monitoring system with "universal" connectivity to computers and mobile devices. At the 2010 Read more...
Verizon Wireless tests remote health management
Verizon Wireless is joining with BL Healthcare, a Foxboro, Mass., maker of remote health management products, to work with various third-party application developers and some customers in a trial of Read more...
Phone companies chase profits, face medical heavyweights in m-health
We've reported plenty on how various telecommunications companies have been moving into mobile healthcare. Isn't it clear why? "All telcos face the same challenge: the commoditization of our core Read more...
CTIA highlights best practices for wireless data collection, remote monitoring
You know technologies are maturing when someone starts developing best practices for their use. That seems to be the case with data collection from wireless heart monitors, as evidenced by Aaron Read more...
Web, GPS-based system keep tabs on Alzheimer's patients
If ever there were a debilitating condition that called out for mobile monitoring technology, Alzheimer's disease would be it. And that's why the Alzheimer's Association is teaming with Read more...
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