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“Moore’s Law is not actually a law,” said Roger McNamee, managing director of Elevation Partners at ITLG Innovation Summit in Santa Clara yesterday. McNamee, who was one of the early investors in Facebook, explained that Moore's law was a challenge for engineers. “Basically what Gordon [Moore] said was: unless you guys are a lot stupider...
Futura Mobility recently launched its Continuum Power System, which employs Lithium Iron Phosphate (LiFePO4) battery technology. The technology is suited for use in mobile carts, which are increasingly being relied on as the primary vehicle for capturing patient information at the point of care.
It features an advanced electronics system that safely recharges the batteries to full capacity in...
Microchip Technology Inc. recently announced a new series of low pin count 32-bit PIC32 microcontrollers (MCUs) that provide 61 DMIPS of performance in packages as small as 5 by 5 mm. The PIC32 MX1 and MX2 MCUs, the smallest and lowest-cost PIC32 MCUs, are the first in the family to feature dedicated audio and capacitive-sensing peripherals. The devices also feature USB On-the-Go (OTG)...
Recently, the FDA reported that “of the 56,000 medical device reports relating to the use of infusion pumps received by the FDA over a five-year period, approximately 1% (560) were related to deaths, 34% (19,040) to serious injuries, and the remainder to system malfunctions.” As a result, the FDA issued a guidance directed specifically toward infusion pumps. It states that when paired...
National Instruments announced four new single-board RIO board-level embedded devices featuring a real-time processor, a Xilinx Spartan-6 FPGA, analog and digital I/O, and other built-in peripherals for custom embedded control and monitoring applications. The devices provide engineers with off-the-shelf FPGA and real-time processor technology through NI’s LabView while maintaining the...
A growing number of people and publications are talking about the Quantified Self movement, whose motto is "self knowledge through numbers." It's hard not to notice the influx of devices designed for self tracking that have emerged in recent years. There's the Zeo sleep coach, the Striiv personal trainer, Nike's Fuelband, the JawboneUP, and the BodyMedia Fit. The Fitbit personal trainer...
Our friends at sister property Design News are hosting an Internet radio show in a few weeks that’s aimed at medical electronics designers.
Called “Embedded Angles for Medical Products," the show will consist of live, streaming audio and an online chat. The show’s guest will be Steven Dean, global healthcare segment lead for Freescale Semiconductor. Dean will discuss the...
The complexity of medical devices is ever increasing. Medical devices range from simple tools like a stethoscope to gene-sequencing machines and tele-operated surgical devices. As the devices become more and more complex, so does testing and risk assessment. Many are aware that the FDA’s medical device recall database reports a 17% increase from 2009. A medical device recall is the most...
People often think of a battery as an energy-storage device that’s similar to a fuel tank dispensing liquid fuel. For simplicity reasons, this is somewhat accurate. However, measuring stored energy from an electrochemical device is far more complex. The battery fuel gauge is generally poorly understood, particularly in the medical field.
While an ordinary fuel gauge measures liquid flow...
Micro Power Electronics recently announced that Electrochem Solutions, a subsidiary of Greatbatch, has signed a definitive agreement to acquire the company. Micro Power supplies custom battery systems to the portable medical markets, among others.
This has a few benefits for designers. One is that, with an expected growth in manufacturing, designers should be less concerned about needing a...
A battery is a corrosive device that begins to fade the moment it leaves the assembly line. Its stubborn and unpredictable behaviour has left many users in awkward situations. Battery failure is common and up to 50% of system breakdowns are attributed to a failing battery. Much of this is avoidable, but even with the best of care, some batteries die early and scientists don’t know why....
The Wireless Health group on LinkedIn has been getting a lot of attention lately. Founded in 2009 by Paul Sonnier, the group has a steadily increasing user base that will likely hit 10,000 members this year. His Wireless Health group has also been praised in Computer World and MedCity News.
Sonnier is also a mentor at Blueprint Health, a strategic advisor at Popper and Company, and an advisor at...
Wind River has packaged its Android expertise and technologies into three specialized software offerings: user experience, connectivity, and medical modules. This comes with the announcement of its Solution Accelerators for Android, a series of software modules that can help developers jumpstart their Android development and rapidly integrate compelling features and functionalities to their...
David Albert, MD, dreamt of creating an electrocardiogram that could fit in physicians' pockets for 15 years, and in that time, he faced no shortage of challenges. He had to wait for technology to catch up to his vision. He was told no one would want such a thing and battled skepticism even from his own partner.
But about a year ago, the former chief clinical scientist of cardiology at GE ...
Intel announced the availability of its latest mobile Atom processor-based platform, formerly codenamed Cedar Trail. Designed to provide compact, on-the-go computing with extended battery life at a lower price point, the platform adds several new features.
The design’s dedicated media engine enables full 1080p high-definition playback of videos and Blu-Ray content and includes additional...
EMDT editor Norbert Sparrow says the medical electronics industry has a lot to look forward to, based on a report from InMedica. (The report, "12 Predictions for 2012 in the Medical Electronics Industry" is available for download after free registration.)
Among the key observations: Point-of-care ultrasound should see 44% growth from 2011 to 2015. In fact, InMedica says almost all...
Microchip Technology recently announced a new series of low pin count 32-bit PIC32 microcontrollers (MCUs) that provide 61 DMIPS of performance in packages as small as 5 by 5 mm. The PIC32 MX1 and MX2 MCUs are the smallest and lowest-cost PIC32 MCUs, and are the first PIC32s to feature dedicated audio and capacitive-sensing peripherals. Rated for operation up to 105°C, the PIC32 MX1 and MX2...
Forget lab-on-a-chip. Researchers at the Korea Advanced Institute for Science and Technology are working to enable the detection of diseases by simply pressing a drop of fluid against the touch screen of a smartphone.
Read more on our sister site, IVD Technology.
Before we know it, health IT is going to reinvent chronic care monitoring, says Stanford cardiology professor Peter J. Fitzgerald, MD, PhD. Practically everyone now has a smart phone in their pocket and it's only a matter of time before those devices start playing a very significant role in helping patients monitor their health. Speaking at the TCT2011 Conference last week in San Francisco,...
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...
Scientists from the University of California-Davis have modified the iPhone to enable its use in microscopy and spectroscopy. The modification, which was the subject of a presentation at the Optical Society of America in October, gives the device clinical-grade performance and could help clinicians diagnose blood-borne diseases.
This isn’t the first microscope created using a smartphone,...
Researchers at the University of Wisconsin (UW) are working on technology that could help mobile electronics take a big step forward. They’ve found a way to convert the energy generated by humans as they walk into power for devices like laptops and cell phones.
“Humans, generally speaking, are very powerful energy-producing machines,” Tom Krupenkin, a UW engineering...
At a recent talk at TCT2011, Stanford cardiology professor Peter J. Fitzgerald, MD, PhD explained how IT would be used to tackle some of the country's (and the world's) most-pressing healthcare problems.
He began by explaining his perspective on those health issues. The United States must reduce hospital readmissions, he said. "26% of all Medicare patients in this country get readmitted...
Tufts University chemists may have broken the world record for the smallest electric motor.
Their single-molecule motor, measuring just 1 nm across, is 200 times smaller than the current record holder and 60,000 times thinner than a typical human hair.
The development marks the first time molecular motors have been demonstrated, according to E. Charles H. Sykes, PhD, associate professor of...
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