Brad McCarty, TNW
“The idea for our running theme this week was to talk about things that can help to improve your health. You see, we have some very healthy people around here at TNW. Courtney Boyd Myers is a fan of bending herself into unnatural positions and calling it yoga, Zee appreciates traveling great distances on foot and ending up in the same place he started. Some call it running. Joel Falconer and I? We call it madness.
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Neil Versel, FierceMobileHealthcare
“Continuing the very international theme of this week’s issue, we bring you news from just across the border in Windsor, Ontario, where researchers are starting to test whether new, wireless heart monitors can do a better job preventing strokes than older models that don’t have continuous wireless connectivity.
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The Economist
“Half Way through a flight from Mumbai to London, a male passenger complains of a swollen right hand and an inability to bend his fingers. The flight attendants are uncertain about what to do and hook the passenger up to a small device which takes and transmits vital signs, including his pulse, blood pressure and a picture of his hand to a ground-based medical team.
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theMobileHealthCrowd
“The Socket Bluetooth CHS 7XRx is designed for use in healthcare applications such as scanning patient wristbands for identification purposes and reading medications imprinted with 2D barcodes.
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Rediff Business
“Raja finds the idea “fascinating”. He’s talking about a cheap portable ECG device that could be set up at tele-radiology centres across the country and linked to a physician at a central location.
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EurekAlert!
“A telemedicine system based on a modified version of the Bluetooth wireless protocol can transfer patient data, such as medical images from patient to the healthcare provider’s mobile device for patient assessment almost four times as fast as conventional Bluetooth and without the intermittent connectivity problems, according to a paper in the forthcoming issue of the International Journal of Medical Engineering and Informatics.
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Julia Pierce, The Engineer Online
“The first medical devices featuring low-cost ‘drop-in’ wireless technology have appeared under a global initiative to improve healthcare data communications.
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