Archive for the ‘Wireless technology’ Category
Monday, December 12th, 2011
From the wire: An interdisciplinary research team at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI; Worcester, MA, USA) has received a US$1.2 million award from the US National Science Foundation to develop a smart phone application that will help people with advanced diabetes and foot ulcers better manage their disease. The four-year project ...
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Sunday, November 20th, 2011
Despite what publicists and copy writers would like us to believe, fundamental technology breakthroughs are few and far between. Bringing incremental improvements and assembling existing, sometimes decades-old technologies to fix persistent problems is the more common scenario. That describes the home health hub (HHH), which semiconductor company Freescale introduced at ...
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Thursday, October 6th, 2011
E-textile technology has spawned a t-shirt that noninvasively monitors a patient's vital signs and accurately tracks his or her location inside a hospital or other building. It can even tell if the patient is seated, reclining or moving about. Designed for use in hospitals, the device also has potential for ...
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Tuesday, February 22nd, 2011
German electronics company RRC power solutions is now among the top five most innovative medium-sized companies in the German industry. The company was honoured with an award at the 30th German Business Innovation Award event for its research and development for wireless power transmission. The German Business Innovation Award recognises ...
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Monday, January 10th, 2011
It seems as if 2010 was the year of medical apps for smartphones. Faster, easier, cheaper, more convenient and personalised are the buzz words these days. But can your smartphone really accurately monitor your heart rate? And how smart is it to rely on your smartphone for such vital information?
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Tuesday, September 28th, 2010
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Is telemedicine finally reaching its tipping point? A comprehensive feature article in the August 2010 issue of Clinica (subscription required to access content) ...
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Tuesday, September 7th, 2010
The next EMDT webcast titled "Innovation Inside: How Components Are Driving Advances in Medical Device Miniaturisation and Performance" will take place Tuesday, 14 September. During the one-hour webinar, industry experts from nano-electronics research center imec and semiconductor provider Texas Instruments (TI) will describe how emerging technologies are helping to make ...
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Friday, August 20th, 2010
US firm Potomac Photonics has demonstrated the feasibility of wireless sensor node miniaturisation. To fulfill a National Science Foundation Phase I SBIR contract related to energy storage, electrical distribution and packaging for wireless sensor networks, the company succeeded in reducing the volume of the current wireless sensor package by a factor of ten. ...
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Friday, August 20th, 2010
The doctor is in . . . your pocket. That may soon be a reality for people with a cardiovascular condition. A German company has developed a mobile phone that provides a quick and simple way to measure, record and dispatch electrocardiogram (ECG) readings to a doctor or hospital. It ...
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Sunday, August 1st, 2010
It's just what the diabetics ordered: a fully implantable glucose monitoring device that sends finger sticks to that place where typewriters went. The device, which measures approximately 3 cm diam and 1 cm thick, would be implanted into the chest in an outpatient procedure. It measures glucose levels in tissue ...
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Wednesday, July 28th, 2010
The Centre Suisse d’Electronique et de Microtechnique (CSEM) is collaborating with a number of European partners in the development of ultra-low-power wireless body-area-network systems that will enhance human-machine interface (HMI) technology. Initial markets for the EC-funded Wear-a-BAN project include smart and interactive textiles and medical rehabilitation. Video gaming is also a target ...
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Thursday, July 22nd, 2010
The x73 Manager USB Reference System developed by Wipro Technologies has received IEEE 11073 certification from industry organisation Continua Health Alliance. Wipro is the first healthcare IT services company to achieve this certification for five device classes: blood pressure monitors, pulse oximeters, weighing scales, thermometers and glucometers. The IEEE 11073–based ...
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