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Webcam Can Measure Pulse and Other Vitals from Across a Room

The San Jose Mercury News reports that someday the monitoring of vital signs could be done from across a room with a webcam. Researchers at Xerox’s PARC research lab in…

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Patients Go Wireless in San Diego Hospital

Palomar Medical Center is equipping some of its patients with wristband devices that will provide continuous monitoring of core vital signs, freeing them from being tethered to bulky devices.
The…

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More Reasons to Love mHealth in 2013

It’s becoming axiomatic that mHealth has “arrived”. Forbes.com chimes in for the New Year with ten reasons why the “stars are aligned” for digital health in 2013 including the nexus…

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FCC Issues Final Rules for Mobile Monitoring

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) issued it’s final rules for the implementation of Mobile Body Area Networks (or MBANs). This technology allows hospitals to monitor patients with wireless devices, giving…

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Hospitals Face Major Investment in IT to Support mHealth

Hospitals need to make significant improvements to their IT network infrastructure to support the wide deployment of electronic medical records (EMRs), wireless monitoring technology, and mobile devices according to an…

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Devicemaker Launches mHealth Enabled Smartphone

Israeli device company LifeWatch Technologies has moved beyond medical apps and wireless monitors with its latest product the LifeWatch V, an android-based phone that can monitor vital signs.  (7/5/2012) Read…

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