Yet another sign that telemedicine is moving into place for the long-term care of Haiti’s sick and injured. At the University of Miami’s 240-bed tent hospital near the Port-au-Prince airport, volunteer surgeons from the United States have performed 1,000 operations… Read moreHaiti and telemedicine
A Ph.D project at the Norwegian Centre for Integrated Care and Telemedicine has resulted in an interesting self-monitoring system for diabetics. Eirik Årsandt based it on a smartphone, a glucose monitor, a step counter and software that trends and inputs information. The monitor… Read moreNorwegian diabetes mHealth application
Sensor device-maker Gentag is commercializing a disposable “skin patch” that looks like an ordinary bandage. Targeted to orthopedic surgery patients, it enables the patient to self-monitor during recovery as long as they have an RFID enabled cell phone. The patch combines advanced MEMS… Read moreA diagnostic sensor for orthopedic post-surgery
At-work clinics, which once were commonplace as the ‘company nurse’s office’, may make a comeback with a telemedicine twist. Medicine at Work, a service offered by Houston-based NuPhysicia, has its first Georgia ‘in-plant’ at Woodward Academy. Staff and teachers can… Read moreTelemedicine at work
The CNN.com headline does make you want to reach for your favorite pain reliever, but it’s actually a deft roundup of technologies that make sure you take your meds. Proteus Biomedical (with their $24 million Novartis investment) and their pill sensors/skin patch… Read more'Tattletale pills and bottles'
Bradley Merrill Thompson’s latest for MobiHealthNews on the FDA and mHealth, on strategies that might be used for avoidance, but not evasion, of FDA medical device regulation. It is not easy and plenty of gray areas. If you partner with telehealth… Read moreAvoiding FDA mHealth regulation–not easy
