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NewsMobile sensors help track H1N1 transmission patterns
Last winter's outbreak of the H1N1 "swine flu" virus caused a lot of consternation and panic among the public, and left many an epidemiologist and physician scrambling for credible information to Read more...
NIH, its foundation put their money where their mouths are
As we briefly touched on last week, the National Institutes of Health plans on awarding 150 grants for mobile health IT projects this year. Healthcare IT News fills in some more details from last 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...
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...
UK project to develop wireless sensors for 'smart' homes for elderly
Money just continues to flow into R&D for home health monitoring technologies. A team at the University of Portsmouth, England, has received a grant of 128,000 pounds ($184,000) to develop Read more...
Global market for mobile patient monitoring pegged at $1.9B by 2014
Global revenues from remote patient monitoring via mobile networks will reach $1.9 billion by 2014, according to a new report from Juniper Research. The UK-based firm says in a report released 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...
'Smart clothes' let patients leave the hospital sooner
Get ready for yet another acronym in healthcare: PPU, short for portable patient unit. That's the name for a device that captures vital signs and other readings from sensors embedded into lightweight Read more...
Medicine's future may include wireless, real-time vitals
If live video in an ambulance can save the lives of seriously ill or injured patients, imagine how many lives could be saved with even earlier intervention--the instant there might be a problem. Read more...
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