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Thin and Flexible Skin-Like Heart Monitor Developed at Stanford

Most of us don't ponder our pulses outside of the gym. But doctors use the human pulse as a diagnostic tool to monitor heart health.

15 May 2013

Arrhythmia Research Technology Reports Positive Results from Signal-Averaged Electrocardiography Clinical Trial

Arrhythmia Research Technology, Inc. announces positive results of the Company's Signal-Averaged Electrocardiography (SAECG) technology employed in a multi-center clinical trial that studied 484 patients with prior myocardial infarction (heart attack).

13 May 2013

Preventice BodyGuardian Remote Patient Monitoring System Now Available Commercially

Preventice, Inc., a leading developer of mHealth solutions, announced today the commercial availability of its BodyGuardian Remote Patient Monitoring System (BodyGuardian RMS).

13 May 2013

Magnetic Biosensor Detector Producer, T2 Biosystems, Honored with 2013 Rising Star Award

T2 Biosystems, a company developing direct detection products enabling superior diagnostics, has been awarded the 2013 Rising Star Award by the Smaller Business Association of New England (SBANE).

13 May 2013

St. Jude Medical Receives CE Mark Approval for High Voltage Therapy ICDs and CRT-Ds

St. Jude Medical, Inc., a global medical device company, today announced CE Mark approval of its next-generation Ellipse™ and SJM Assura™ portfolio of implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICDs) and cardiac resynchronization therapy defibrillators (CRT-Ds). The new portfolio is designed to lower the risk for lead abrasion and to ensure high voltage therapy delivery.

10 May 2013

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

Medical Sensor News

Thin and Flexible Skin-Like Heart Monitor Developed at Stanford

Arrhythmia Research Technology Reports Positive Results from Signal-Averaged Electrocardiography Clinical Trial

Preventice BodyGuardian Remote Patient Monitoring System Now Available Commercially

Magnetic Biosensor Detector Producer, T2 Biosystems, Honored with 2013 Rising Star Award

St. Jude Medical Receives CE Mark Approval for High Voltage Therapy ICDs and CRT-Ds

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

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