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Medical debut for smart band aid

Source: BBC.co.uk Clinical trials have begun of a smart plaster - a sensor-studded band aid that wirelessly monitors vital signs. Once stuck to a patient's chest, the band aid monitors heart rate, blood pressure and other health indicators. Its creators hope it will eventually take over from the wired devices that limit a patient's movement. As well as monitoring standard vital signs, the gadget can be tuned to capture far more subtle indicators of a patient's condition. The trials wi...

Only sensors will make revolution in profitability of mHealth and Health 2.0

Only sensors will make revolution in profitability of mHealth/ Health 2.0 (sensors for mobile phones, not ordinary Health 2.0  web portals ) As the editor of two medical software blogs for iPhone and Android, I can notice that there are the low share of apps and the low profit in medical and healthcare categories because of poor quality of majority of the apps . Therefore at the present time there is almost nothing innovative there from the user’s or technological points of view, isn’t i...

Far From a Lab? Turn a iPhone Into a Microscope

Source: NYTimes.com MICROSCOPES are invaluable tools to identify blood and other cells when screening for diseases like anemia, tuberculosis and malaria. But they are also bulky and expensive. Now an engineer, using software that he developed and about $10 worth of off-the-shelf hardware, has adapted cellphones to substitute for microscopes. “We convert cellphones into devices that diagnose diseases,” said Aydogan Ozcan, an assistant professor of electrical engineering and member of the...