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It was just a couple months ago the company made this acquisition to grow the corporation and spent $800 Million, but as you can see when restructuring come in to play with algorithms for profit, this does not do much for those in areas to where growth is not anticipated. Medtronic Acquires Hypertension...
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Tue, Feb 22 2011
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Back in July of 2010, the chip folks kind of hung it up and people didn’t want to be chipped but now Siemens has an interest here. This involves monitoring body behaviors with the identification of an implanted medical device in the body. In short it looks like Siemens is going to explore...
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Wed, Jan 5 2011
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It looks like we have a bit of everything here from treadmills to glucose readers to weights. If you happened to read the news this week their sales numbers were down a bit so what’s the answer, healthcare products. If you are buying a device, according to the video they will help you connect...
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Fri, Dec 17 2010
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No wonder some companies are getting known for not being a wonderful place to work anymore and again this is all driven mostly be analytics to where we have forgotten to treat people as humans. Certainly there are those who abuse it but I would rather see a few of those cases get by rather than...
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Wed, Dec 8 2010
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This is slated to be the largest telehealth network in the world and Ideal Life is working with a major Chinese drug company to set up the program. The company also has contracts here n the US such as the one below with blue tooth and wireless devices that collect and report data. The Blue Cross program...
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Tue, Dec 7 2010
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This guy could have saved himself some trouble if he just wanted the data and with Google Health he could have imported it, that is if Google Health was his personal health record of choice. Myself, I am very cautious of devices that do not go directly to a PHR as they are collected on the web...
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Fri, Dec 3 2010
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Back in the middle of 2007 I was listening and talking about Craig Mundie from Microsoft and what they were doing in 3rd world countries with supplying cell phones that work and help those who can’t read. Now we are trying to help and show value for those “who can read”. The images here go...
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Wed, Nov 10 2010
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I went to look at what SocialKentics had to say on their website, not much so far. Red Brick came on the scene with their big agreement with Target stores a couple years back with a wellness program that has options to use an accelerator to monitor employee actions and based on participating discounts...
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Wed, Oct 13 2010
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The device is said to cost around $80.00 when available. The iBGStar attaches to the phone and does the data work. It has an option to be used while plugged into the phone too. As usual, there’s new technology and the hot stuff here according to the site is “Dynamic Electrochemistry” and...
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Mon, Sep 27 2010
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There’s almost not a day that goes by where there’s not some new mobile application in the news. My question is, what is going to end up being a standard and in fact useful without more glut. I said a while back that mobile meaningful use was overlooked and here we are. I look at some of...
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Mon, Sep 27 2010
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This is truly a good thing as I have interviewed companies such as Cook Medical for one in the past and this is one item they is always a bear for them, the FDA stamp of approval is one thing, but coverage, which is what makes the product available is the other big mountain to climb. I think this decision...
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Fri, Sep 17 2010
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If you are a regular reader here then you have probably heard about the West Wireless Institute in San Diego and Dr. Eric Topol who spoke at the TED conference this year and is the Scripps Director of of Translational Science. CareFusion, Cisco and Medtronic to Collaborate With West Wireless Health Institute...
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Fri, Sep 17 2010
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This is one “huge” project and the targets and technologies change frequently, maybe hourly if we really had all the data to look at. Technology is out there throwing us a new left curve every day and when it available and simple, consumers want it now. No longer are we in the days to where...
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Wed, Sep 15 2010
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Some device companies have already submitted their products and have received approval for FDA clearance such as WellDoc and ExpressMD . There are a few others I have reported on as well that have done the same; however there’s a lot of device software programs emerging, almost daily I think as I try...
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Tue, Aug 31 2010
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The FDA here in the US has not cleared the entire Proteus system for use with the chip but did give approval to the wireless monitoring device portion; but the folks in Europe get to have the first crack at taking a pill that will send back an audit trail of all the information. FDA Clearance of...
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Thu, Aug 12 2010
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