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Interdisciplinary Research Collaboration to Develop Sensor Platform for Healthcare in Residential Environments

The UK’s healthcare system faces unprecedented challenges. Britain is the most obese nation in Europe and the country’s ageing population is especially at risk from isolation, depression, strokes and fractures caused by falls in the home. A pioneering new collaboration hopes to address these issues by developing a 24/7 digital home health assistant.

10 May 2013

EPSRC Funds Projects to Develop Phones, Probes and Sensors to Advance Healthcare

Innovative projects including: smart-phone test and tracking systems for infectious diseases; fibre optic probes that can monitor people’s condition in intensive care; and in-home sensors that can relay patient information to doctors immediately, have benefitted from a £32 million investment.

9 May 2013

Earlysense Safety Monitoring Solution Helps Reduce Patient Falls at Rehabilitation Centers

EarlySense, the market leader in Proactive Patient Care Solutions™, announced today the results of a multi-center clinical study demonstrating that the EarlySense system helps medical teams at rehabilitation centers to reduce patient falls as well as the number of patients transferred back to the hospital.

From EarlySense 6 May 2013

New Device Detects Diabetic Neuropathy Using Sweat

Details of a new method to detect diabetic neuropathy in patients in less than five minutes using their sweat glands was presented today at the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists (AACE) 22nd Annual Scientific and Clinical Congress in Phoenix, Arizona by Aaron I. Vinik, M.D., Ph.D., F.C.P., M.A.C.P., F.A.C.E., Professor of Medicine and Director of Research and the Neuroendocrine Unit at Eastern Virginia Medical School.

6 May 2013

Tremendous Potential for Adoption of Disposable Wireless Medical Body Area Network Sensors

The market for disposable wireless Medical Body Area Network (MBAN) sensors within professional healthcare is in its earliest stages, but key foundations to support adoption are now in place. There is also tremendous potential for adoption. So much so that by 2018, close to 5 million disposable sensors will be shipped even though MBAN sensors will have still barely penetrated the addressable market.

From ABI Research 6 May 2013

IARS 2013: Assurance Biosense to Debut Next-Generation Pulse Oximeter Alar Sensor

Assurance Biosense, a subsidiary of Xhale, Inc., today announced that it will unveil its next-generation Assurance® Alar Sensor at the International Anesthesia Research Society (IARS) meeting in San Diego May 4-7, 2013.

3 May 2013

Jawbone to Acquire Pioneer in Wearable Body Monitors

Jawbone®, a leader and innovator in products and services for the way we live, today announced that it is acquiring BodyMedia® to further its leadership and accelerate its innovation in wearable health technology and personal data analysis.

2 May 2013

Masimo’s EMMA Emergency Capnometer and iSpO2 Pulse Oximeter Win EMS Today Awards

Masimo announced today that its iSpO2™ pulse oximeter for iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch and EMMA™ Emergency Capnometer earned JEMS Hot Product awards. Only two companies received dual Hot Product award honors at the EMS Today 2013 Conference & Exposition, the industry's leading emergency medical services (EMS) event held recently in Washington, D.C.

From Masimo Corporation 30 Apr 2013

New 3-D Motion Detection System May Help Identify Baseball Pitchers at Risk for Shoulder Injuries

A new 3-D motion detection system could help identify baseball pitchers who are at risk for shoulder injuries, according to a new study.

25 Apr 2013

New Algorithms to Better Decipher Medical Sensor Data

With the recent launch of MIT’s Institute for Medical Engineering and Science, MIT News examines research with the potential to reshape medicine and health care through new scientific knowledge, novel treatments and products, better management of medical data, and improvements in health-care delivery.

23 Apr 2013

Medical Sensor News

Interdisciplinary Research Collaboration to Develop Sensor Platform for Healthcare in Residential Environments

EPSRC Funds Projects to Develop Phones, Probes and Sensors to Advance Healthcare

Earlysense Safety Monitoring Solution Helps Reduce Patient Falls at Rehabilitation Centers

New Device Detects Diabetic Neuropathy Using Sweat

Tremendous Potential for Adoption of Disposable Wireless Medical Body Area Network Sensors

IARS 2013: Assurance Biosense to Debut Next-Generation Pulse Oximeter Alar Sensor

Jawbone to Acquire Pioneer in Wearable Body Monitors

Masimo’s EMMA Emergency Capnometer and iSpO2 Pulse Oximeter Win EMS Today Awards

New 3-D Motion Detection System May Help Identify Baseball Pitchers at Risk for Shoulder Injuries

New Algorithms to Better Decipher Medical Sensor Data

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