It’s National Robotics Week in the USA, so it is an appropriate time to round up a whole series of care-related robot items. It seems that a lot of robotics research is driven by the idea that the only way… Read moreRobots in care: roundup
The Walt Disney Pavilion at Florida Hospital for Children in Orlando this month started a pilot of a new iPad application using interactive video to explain common medical procedures such as CT scans and MRIs to their young patients. The Medical… Read moreiPad for patient education at Florida Hospital for Children
Another week, another set of projections. Juniper Research forecasts that global revenues from remote patient monitoring via mobile networks will reach $1.9 billion by 2014. The greatest share of early spending will go toward heart monitoring in the U.S. and mobile monitoring… Read moreReady, set….more projections (mHealth this go)
Scientific American jumps into the fogbank of FDA regulation of smartphones as medical devices. The FDA is considering various degrees of oversight of health information technology (HIT), which includes apps and other digital systems such as electronic health record software…. Read moreInto the fog: FDA and smartphone apps regulation
