The California HealthCare Foundation now has a page for additional information and yes, just due to our population numbers in California it makes sense that we would have more individuals looking for Home Based Healthcare. In short, this means devices are on the way, home monitoring, PHR or personal...
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This is a whole new open territory for the FDA and as I have mentioned before as late as 2008, all the investigators and analysts didn’t have computers, but all that aside, how is wireless going to be approved by the FDA. This is a tricky one to say the least, not tricky per se in what it does...
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The site enables you to somewhat build your own portal of sorts, with information relative to your health and what you want to read. You can add widgets to make access quick and easy without having to flip through a number of pages, and you will need to make sure you have Silverlight in your browser...
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The WatchPAT already has approval from CMS and now has a CPT Code to bill. Blue Cross has also stated coverage would be provided for the sleep analysis device. Let me see, how many ways can one analyze their sleep, many according to the data report created. A good night’s sleep is something...
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Sat, Sep 26 2009
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Medical devices are getting “smarter”. I have written a few times on this blog about Cambridge Consultants and some of their work, namely the Blue Tooth Inhaler. Not only is the product a delivery device, but it is also data reporting and capable. You can read more about the device...
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This company has a few new wireless data reporting medical devices. The one mentioned in the study was the blood pressure device. These devices all have Bluetooth too. There’s also the option of connecting to a phone line to transmit as well. The glucose machine is pretty wild...
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What won’t we be doing with a portable electronic medical device in the future? This looks interesting enough and certainly portable. It is paperless too and results can be uploaded to a PC and it does Bluetooth too. This looks like one more potential device for the HealthVault to store you...
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