Dan Bowman, FierceMobileHealthcare
“Researchers at the University of South Carolina have developed a new program to aid in fall prevention for the elderly. It uses sensors originally designed to monitor bridge safety and an algorithm to detect vibrations associated with movement, according to an article on the school’s website.
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Brian Dolan, mobihealthnews
“For a number of years now NASA Ames scientist Jing Li has been hard at work developing what Gizmodo recently called the “greatest phone accessory of all time.” The tech publication had an exclusive look Li’s gadget, a postage-sized chip with 32 nanosensor bars, each made up of a different nano-structure material that can respond to different chemicals in different ways.
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The Himalayan Times
“When you think of the latest and most powerful military technology you might imagine smart bullets that can bend around corners or advanced stealth technology that can render a soldier virtually invisible, but underwear? Probably not, but that is exactly what the U.S. military is adding to its seemingly endless arsenal.
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Reuters
“Tired of long waits at the hospital for medical tests? If Korean researchers have their way, your smartphone could one day eliminate that — and perhaps even tell you that you have cancer.
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Won BY, Park HG. Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 51(3)
Touchscreen testing: A biomolecular detection platform is presented that utilizes a capacitive touchscreen to measure DNA concentration.
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Peter Murray, Singularity Hub
“What a great place that Singularity University is. Smart, motivated people coming together to make the world a better place through technology. This past summer a group of talented students put their heads together to tackle the Global Health grand challenge. What they came up with was a hardware platform built into a t-shirt for which developers might design sensory applications.
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Marla Durben Hirsch, FierceEMR
“Lack of patient interest in managing their own care and in electronic health records have long been problematic. But a new project may help to spark patient engagement and improve health.
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Chris Gullo, mobihealthnews
“As obesity increasingly becomes a worldwide epidemic, especially within children and adolescent populations, solutions to the problem are poised to become a major focus within mHealth.
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Shiv Gaglani, MedGadget
“We at Medgadget love sensors. Here’s a recent report from Rock Health, a non-profit which incubates health start-ups, that provides a very good overview of current and emerging medical sensors.
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Brian Edwards, iMedicalApps
“When autistic children get stressed they often don’t show it. Instead, their tension might build until they have a meltdown, which can result in aggression toward others and even self-injury.
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Marianne Kolbasuk McGee, InformationWeek Healthcare
“Wireless mobile technologies have great potential to improve global health. But the challenges facing the implementation of mobile health IT worldwide are different than those faced by the efforts to use health IT in the U.S. to transform patient outcomes.
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Neil Versel, mobihealthnews
“McKinsey & Co. said in 2010 that the global market for mobile health was worth about $50 billion, with $20 billion of that in the U.S. alone. ABI Research estimated that sales of wearable wireless devices would top 100 million units per year by 2016. GigaOM cites those findings, but attempts to explain why.
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Emily Singer, Technology Review
“Statistics in sports is about to hit a whole new level. A new generation of wearable monitors that measure heart rate, electrical activity in the heart, lung capacity, metabolism, and other metrics is allowing scientists to study athletes’ physiology as they play.
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Brian Edwards, iMedicalApps
“By 2020 it is estimated that 12 million elderly Americans will require long-term care and constant monitoring. This presents a tremendous opportunity for a company to develop a minimally invasive solution for monitoring patients outside of a clinical setting.
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Nicole Lewis, InformationWeek Healthcare
“Motion-sensing technology found in devices like Microsoft’s Xbox 360 are effective at detecting the early onset of illness and fall risk in seniors, according to research from the University of Missouri.
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Grainne Rothery, siliconrepublic
“The development of a new nanosensor technology that can be up to 1,000 times more sensitive at detecting biological molecules that may indicate the early stages of certain diseases than current devices has been announced today by the Tyndall National Institute.
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Randall Stross, The New York Times
“Suppose, however, that all of a convalescent patient’s electrode patches were consolidated into a single, nearly invisible and weightless version — as thin as a temporary, press-on tattoo. And suppose that a tiny radio transmitter eliminated the need for any wires tethering the patient to monitoring machines.
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Rickard J et al, Heart Rhythm, 2011
BACKGROUND:
The Wriskwatch(tm) is a novel, watch-based pulse detection device that detects the loss of a radial pulse via advanced pulse detection technology and immediately contacts emergency medical systems.
OBJECTIVE:
We designed a first in man, prospective, single-blinded, phase I study to evaluate the ability of this device to detect motionlessness and pulselessness in human subjects as a simulation of sudden cardiac death.
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Brian Edwards, iMedicalApps
“Perhaps the single greatest barrier to overcome in the movement toward pervasive consumer and physician adoption and use of wearable sensors and wireless body area networks is the invasive, uncomfortable, obtrusive and unsightly nature of most current sensor technology.
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Kit Eaton, Fast Company
“While you were busy catapulting Angry Birds on your iPhone, scientists at Vanderbilt university were using the components inside your smartphone to create bionic limbs. The Vanderbilt leg, seven years in the making, anticipates the movements of the person wearing it, resulting in a more natural gait instead of the slight dragging experienced by most wearers.
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