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The patient’s dilemma: big companies won’t allow disruptive innovation in health care #mhs11

Dec 09, 2011 by Brian Edwards | Senior mHealth Analyst

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During one of the mHealth Summit’s final “super sessions”, entitled The New Wireless Paradigm in the Medical Device Industry, Tom Watlington, CEO of San Diego-based startup Sotera Wireless, stuns a crowd full of mHealth enthusiasts when he calls out the big boys (Phillips, Medtronic, SAP) for intentionally stifling innovation directly to their faces. Bravo Mr Watlington.

Your car can do a lot more than give you directions, like tell you that you’re having a heart attack #mHS11

Dec 08, 2011 by Satish Misra, MD

We speak to Gary Strumolo, Ford Global Health & Wellness Research Manager, about the automaker’s plans for making their cars tools for mHealth.

St. Jude may be exploring smartphone integration with its remote cardiac monitoring system

Oct 27, 2011 by Satish Misra, MD

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Remote monitoring systems integrating implanted cardiac devices, like St. Jude’s Merlin.net, have a lot of potential for integration with mobile devices.

Mobile Medical News Roundup from iMedicalApps

May 13, 2011 by Satish Misra, MD

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For anyone interested in mobile health, the pace of new developments, partnerships, and innovations is dizzying. In this series, we pore through the latest in the mobile health world and pick a few articles that we think are interesting and convey important developments. Be sure to let us know what you think by adding your comments to this post ! GenerationOne Selected by Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center for Mobile Health Pilot with Teen Asthmatics From PR Newswire GenerationOne and [Read more]

Apple features Medtronic on their website: “Better Medicine Through iPad”

Apr 26, 2011 by iMedicalApps Team

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Apple.com features video showing how Medtronic designed custom iPad Apps for assisting their representatives in marketing their products to doctors.

AirStrip and Medtronic link physicians and EMS providers through their iPhone OS & Android devices

Dec 07, 2010 by Satish Misra, MD

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When we covered the HIMSS conference earlier this year, we had the good fortune to get a product demo from AirStrip VP of Client Services Donna Morrow. For those that need a refresher, the AirStrip app allows for physicians to view real-time patient data on their iPhone and iPad. For example, AirStrip Cardiology allows physicians to view cardiac rhythm strips, ventilator pressure settings, pulse oximetry data, and more. Similar products exist for lab data, imaging, and so on. What has [Read more]

Real-Time Glucose Monitoring in Diabetes – Mobile Tech That’s Making a Difference

Jul 27, 2010 by Satish Misra, MD

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Insulin management is a nightmare. As a physician, even I have trouble sorting out how much short-acting and long-acting a patient needs through the day – what dose sliding scale to choose, how to adjust from Insulin Aspart to Lantus, how to pick the dose of insulin for the current blood sugar and anticipated meal. It’s tough. Fortunately, it’s my job and I have great support in the form of an EMR, endocrinologists, and others to help me whenever I [Read more]

Medtronic CareLink and Your Electronic Health Record Make Remote Monitoring of Cardiac Devices a Reality

Mar 21, 2010 by Satish Misra, MD

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As the number of men and women with cardiac disease continues to grow, so too do the clinical indications for pacemakers and automatic implantable cardiac defibrillators. Taken together, there are going to be a lot more people in the near future who are dependent on implanted hardware to keep their hearts working normally. Until relatively recently, the sole form of monitoring of these patients was through regular clinic visits where these devices could be interrogated or unscheduled/emergency visits based on [Read more]

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