Vital Signs news from FierceMobileHealthcare
News'Smart' Band-Aids signal new possibilities for remote monitoring
"Smart" Band-Aids that can detect vital signs and alert healthcare professionals when there's an abnormal reading may be new, but they represent more than a decade of advances in the field of remote... Read more...
Remote monitoring enhances case management for CHF patients, Aetna and Intel say
Adding remote monitoring to standard nurse care management can improve outcomes and lessen the need for hospital admissions for older patients with chronic heart failure, Intel and health insurer... Read more...
Portable kiosk takes health monitoring around the hospital, into patient homes
We haven't reported a whole lot on kiosks in FierceMobileHealthcare because, though they may incorporate portable computers, kiosks tend to stay in fixed locations. Not so for a new family of... Read more...
Paper: Wireless monitoring allows more accurate study of COPD, Parkinson's patients
Wireless monitors can allow healthcare professionals to observe patients with debilitating conditions such as Parkinson's disease or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) under normal living... Read more...
SPOTLIGHT: Honeywell expands connectivity of home health monitors
Honeywell HomMed is teaming with eDevice of Bordeaux, France, to expand data communications capabilities for its LifeStream remote patient care system and Genesis DM telehealth monitor. eDevice... Read more...
Sotera gets $11M investment, while AllOne Mobile may be gone
This week brings news of one m-health company on the rise and one apparently on the way out. Sotera Wireless, a San Diego-based maker of patient monitoring technology, has landed a third series of... Read more...
Smartphone apps moving into regulatory gray area
This is the kind of statement that might scare the daylights out of your average healthcare software developer: "Medical applications are technically medical devices and therefore subject to federal... Read more...
Powering implantable sensors
Let's call this the bleeding edge of mobile healthcare. Researchers in the Netherlands are "working on body area networking to monitor vital signs, control drug delivery according to need and... Read more...
iSoft, Medic4all team to market remote monitoring systems
Just two weeks after HIMSS10 wrapped up in Atlanta, HIMSS is joining with some European partners for the World of Health IT conference over in Barcelona, Spain. The event opened yesterday, so the... Read more...
Mayo Clinic, GE and Intel team up to test telemedicine for chronically ill
As part of the first-ever study examining the effects of home-based monitoring across a variety of chronic conditions--rather than one specific disease--the Mayo Clinic, GE Healthcare and Intel will... Read more...
| Press ReleasesWelch Allyn Unveils Cure for Vital Sign Documentation Errors at the Point of CareCompany creates system that electronically captures and transmits patient data to EMR, enabling improvements in patient safety and clinical decision making and reducing risk to facilities SKANEATELES Read more >> FDA Clears AirStrip RPM for CRITICAL CARE & CARDIOLOGY Remote Patient Monitoring SolutionsAirStrip RPM delivers unprecedented ability to improve patient safety through monitoring acute care settings via smartphonesSAN ANTONIO, July 27 /PRNewswire/ -- AirStrip Technologies, a pioneer in Read more >> Noninvasive Medical Technologies and Philips Collaborate to Expand Home Monitoring Capabilities for Congestive Heart Failure PatPhilips to market, sell and distribute NMT's ZOE(R) fluid status monitors with its patient telemonitoring serviceLAS VEGAS, June 15 /PRNewswire/ -- Noninvasive Medical Technologies, Inc. (NMT), an Read more >> Freescale Streamlines Health Screenings with Portable Medical KioskCompany Partners with Pounce Consulting to Develop Intelligent Hospital Reference Design GUADALAJARA, Mexico--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- As the population continues to age and medical monitoring becomes more Read more >> Baptist Health System First to Implement eICU® Program in San AntonioeGuardian Promotes Safer Environment in Intensive Care UnitsSAN ANTONIO, May 18, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- Baptist Health System completes final steps to become the first in South Central Texas to Read more >> |
