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Effort to Repeal Device Tax Leaps Forward
The House Ways and Means Committee on Thursday became the first congressional panel to sign off on Republican Rep. Erik Paulsen’s top legislative priority, a bill to do away with an Affordable Care Act tax on sales of complicated medical devices set to take affect next year.
Minn Post
Former NBA Star Backs Device Industry
[Bill] Walton,...
MD+DI Announces MDEA Finalists
Sponsored by MD+DI and organized by UBM Canon, the Medical Design Excellence Awards (MDEA) competition is the premier awards program for the medical technology community, recognizing the achievements of medical product manufacturers and the many people behind the scenes—engineers, scientists, designers, and clinicians—who are...
iPad 3 Hits Stores
The third iteration of the iPad went on sale Friday morning in the US, greeted by the usual throngs of early adopters...at the company’s flagship 5th Ave. store — ground zero in New York — hundreds lined up for the new iPad, which reviewers have said introduces some powerful new processor and graphics features but lacks the “wow” factor of the...
I just got back in the office from MD&M West with notebooks full of ideas for MED content. Over the course of my three days at the event, I had the opportunity to meet with past, present, and (hopefully) future MED contributors. One of them was Bill Saltzstein, of connectBlue, who cowrote a highly popular article on Bluetooth low energy technology last year.
I got to see a...
Mobile health is perhaps one of the most exciting segments of the medical device industry today. Applications in the field stand poised to revolutionize the way healthcare is delivered across the globe. But for all its promise, mHealth faces a number of challenges, from how to get doctors on board to how to pay for it.
MobiHealthNews recently put together a video compilation of interviews with...
Some interesting medical devices were on display at the Consumer Electronics Show. Telehealth shows benefits in dermatology.
A Roundup of Mobile Health Products at CES (Pacific Coast Business Times)
Defense Department's Telehealth Center Launches Site for Military Kids (ModernHealthcare.com)
Dermatology Patients Experience Better Care via Telehealth (MobiHealthNews)
What Medical...
Samsung is eyeing Olympus, UnitedHealth is coming around to mobile health, and the apps market continues to grow.
Source Says Samsung is Open to An Alliance with Olympus (Reuters)
UnitedHealth Group Partners with Mobile Health Technology Companies (Information Week)
Happtique to Offer Certification for Mobile Health Apps (MobiHealthNews)
Mobile App Market to Reach Nearly $400...
A flexible electrode array created by a team co-led by researchers from the University of Pennsylvania. Photo Courtesy of Travis Ross and Yun Soung Kim, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
A new flexible electrode array can provide high-resolution recordings of brain activity with fewer wires.
Researchers have found that sending health information to new and expectant...
Each year, product design, industrial design, and engineering students around the world vie for the James Dyson Award, given to the individual or team with the most innovative product design. This year's entries ranged from an irrigation system to a room divider and also included several medical electronics.
One of the runner-up products is BlindSpot, a smart cane designed to help people with...
The iPhone 4S hits stores. Also, senators introduce legislation intended to speed medical device review.
iPhone 4S Makes its Retail Debut (The Wall Street Journal)
Klobuchar, Paulsen Continue to Stump for Industry on Capitol Hill (MD+DI)
Designer of C Programming Language Dies (New York Times)
Dr. Leslie Saxon on the Future of Telehealth (MD+DI)
Smartphone-Based Ultrasound: The New Medical...
Today, only about a quarter of all smartphone users in the world take advantage of mobile health products, according to a recent news story from Bloomberg Businessweek. Some folks might think that number is great, but my first thought was, Why not more?
I came across a pair of articles about mobile health over on MIT's Technology Review site that offer some insight. One presents the view of...
The Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) today finalized technology that will usher in a new generation of wireless medical devices.
New profiles built on Bluetooth Core Specification Version 4.0 will allow wireless monitoring of body temperature and heart rate. Potential applications of the new technology include a thermometer patch that transmits measurements to a mobile phone.
“These...
Emergo says mobile medical apps should soon see some guidance.
"Manufacturers have thus far received little official guidance from FDA regarding how CDRH would handle mobile medical applications. Although some medical devices incorporating mobile applications have already been cleared by the FDA—GE’s Pocket Viewer, Airstrip Technologies’ Airstrip, Mobisante’...
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