Excellent article de mobihealthnews on "How camera phones can automate healthcare". The same company behind the technology that allows bank customers to deposit checks by camera phone i snow entering the healthcare business.
Mitek Systems is offering its mobile imaging technology through an API so the developpers of smartphone applications can automate the complete paper based process. Take a picture of your docs and you're done!
Read the complete article here
The japanese population is aging and by 2015, the country will have 5.69 million people in need of nursing care. Lifting a patient from a bed to a wheelchair is very difficult so the researchers have manufactured a robot to help out.
The RIBA II (Robot for Interactive Body Assistance) is a robot developed by the RIKEN research institute that can lift patients out of their wheelchairs, onto a bed, and back again.
Check out a video of RIBA in action
Do you think robots are the future of healthcare?
"The business card-sized iCard ECG mounts to the back of your iDevice using velcro and wirelessly feeds data from its electrodes to the AliveECG app. The app automatically records 30 seconds of your heart’s rhythmic pulse before uploading it to AliveCor’s servers for sharing with your doctors."
The bad news? They’re still awaiting FDA approval!
Comment from TrianaHealth: Real-time monitoring is also very much useful to primary responders and EMTs prior to getting emergency patients to hospitals. Incredible tool; we can only imagine that the apparatus would be able to be adapted to different...
Columbia Business School appoints The Triana Group’s healthcare technologies division founder and head, Lorraine Marchand, associate director and senior advisor of its Healthcare and Pharmaceutical Management Program New York.
The Triana Group is pleased to announce that Lorraine Marchand, founder and head of its healthcare technologies division, has been appointed associate director and advisor to the Columbia Business School Healthcare and Pharmaceutical Management Program which serves the needs of the international business community including global pharmaceutical, biotechnology, technology...