Athena GTX (Des Moines, IA) has released an iPhone app for monitoring of patients connected to its Wireless Vital Signs Monitor (WVSM). The WVSM is a portable monitor that measures NIBP, SpO2 and lead II ECG. Additionally, it also has manual inputs for Glasgow Coma Score, temperature and respiration...
In relatively few years, videoconferencing has advanced tremendously, from something that required expensive and complicated hardware setups to something most smartphone, tablet, and PC owners have easy access to. Using video for virtual visits in healthcare is a little more complicated — the connection...
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While attending the American Telemedicine Association (ATA) meeting in Austin, Texas this week, Dr. Andrew Watson, a colorectal surgeon and executive director of telemedicine at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, stumbled across a petting zoo. His young daughter wasn’t with him, but he...
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Medical peripherals can combine with a smartphone to create the function of an ultrasound machine, an EKG reader, or an otoscope, to name just a few diagnostic devices. But without buying anything extra, nearly every consumer mobile device has a camera of some sort built-in. That means that when it comes...
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The next time you go to the hospital, you may run into a telemedicine robot like the RP-VITA. At ATA 2013, InTouch Health & iRobot announced the first hospitals and medical centers that will be using the RP-VITA telemedicine robot. Here's a snippet from their press release: Austin, TX (May 6...
Underserved communities in the U.S. stand to benefit greatly from telehealth and mobile health technologies, but only if clinicians adjust their workflows to include remote care, payers start offering the right financial incentives for providers to do so and the technology infrastructure is in place...
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Don't miss ATA 2013 for the latest updates on telemedicine. This year, the keynote speakers are: Lynn Britton, President & CEO, Mercy. Mercy, a 31 hospital healthcare system serving hundreds of communities in the Midwest, is transforming the patient experience through comprehensive telemedicine...
Wearable sensor technology, while popular in the athletics industry, has been an elusive target in terms of medical applicability. As we reported last year, Vancive Medical Technologies (formerly Avery Dennison Medical Solutions, Chicago, IL) has created Metria, a disposable wearable sensor to improve...
Neurologists at the Mayo Clinic in Arizona have shown that iPads can be an effective way to interpret electro-encephalograph (EEG) readings in telemedicine clinics, comparable to laptop and desktop computers. The authors concluded that in many ways the tablet even outperformed the traditional computers...
If digital health technologies take hold the way many believe they will, the U.S. may no longer have to worry about a pressing shortage of primary care physicians, projected by the Association of American Medical Colleges to reach 65,800 doctors by 2015.
“There are a lot of ways to deliver primary...