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'Most Wireless' hospitals improve data collection and access, reduce patient movement
A truer statement may never have been written about health IT: "electronically delivered patient information is only as useful as its capacity to be used." That line is from a Hospitals & Health... Read more...
Study: Remote monitoring cuts hospitalization, mortality for heart failure
The expected boom in remote monitoring has been somewhat restrained by the dearth of scientific studies proving that such technologies can save lives and money. Slowly, though, the body of evidence... Read more...
Telemedicine, remote monitoring aid care aboard offshore oil rigs
The explosion of BP's Deepwater Horizon oil rig that killed 11 and set off one of the worst environmental disasters in history is an extreme case, but workers on even the safest of offshore rigs are... Read more...
Companies seek FDA approval of wireless, implantable diabetes monitors
One of the knocks against all this great, new home-monitoring technology is that there hasn't been enough scientific evidence of back-end savings to justify the added up-front expense. Slowly, that's... Read more...
Boeing challenges GE, IBM, Philips over wireless spectrum for patient monitoring
The high hopes that some medical device makers have for wireless patient monitoring technologies may get grounded--if aerospace giant Boeing gets its way. As General Electric, IBM, Royal Philips... Read more...
'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...
FDA, FCC discuss medical smartphone apps as industry adjusts to regulatory culture
The Food and Drug Administration and the Federal Communications Commission are holding a public meeting Monday and Tuesday to explore whether and how the two agencies should regulate wireless medical... Read more...
Use remote monitoring for prevention, says West Wireless and Scripps leader Topol
For all we've written about the West Wireless Health Institute and related institutions and activities in the San Diego area, we haven't had much lately about Dr. Eric Topol, who co-founded the... 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...
'Smart' implantable devices can save lives, but docs worry about information overload, liability
How useful are "smart" implantable medical devices? "It's like having an office visit every day and a complete physical every week," University of Southern California cardiologist Dr. Leslie Saxon... Read more...
