Nearly half of all Phase III pharmaceutical clinical trials fail, partly because data about patient adherence is hard to come by. That’s according to computer giant Oracle (ORCL), which has teamed with and ingestible sensor ...
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Posted in Mobile Health by Nancy Crotti on January 7, 2015 A little more than a year ago, a top executive of Qualcomm Life predicted that smartphones would one day be considered medical devices. Qualcomm's 2Net Hub is a ...
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Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "Concise Analysis of the International Medical Device Connectivity Market - Forecasts to 2019" report to their offering. Acquiring medical device data for automated documentation in ...
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Loyola University Medical Center physicians Christopher Loftus, MD and Jos- Biller, MD are co-editors of a new comprehensive guide to monitoring neural function during brain and spine surgery. The 416-page text, Intraoperative ...
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The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has prosecuted a GP surgery manager for unlawfully accessing the medical records of almost 2,000 patients registered with the practice. 37-year-old Steven Tennison was employed by the College ...
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Despite downright silly and inaccurate headlines just a few weeks ago proclaiming that fish oil supplements rich in omega-3 fatty acids are a waste of money, now comes research that reveals the opposite. Taking enough of these supplements ...
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A study just published in The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) has resulted in a flurry of articles proclaiming the uselessness of omega-3 fatty acids in the prevention of heart disease. A USA Today headline declared: Fish ...
Germany-based Draeger will unveil its new jaundice meter JM-105, which allows transcutaneous bilirubin screening in very premature babies or those with low birth weights - from as young as 24 weeks gestational age, in the UK. The new ...
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Tensys Medical has received CE mark for its latest generation non-invasive hemodynamic patient monitoring systems called the TL-400 and TL-300. This approval allows immediate commercialization of the systems in Europe. The TL-400 offers ...
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Verizon, a US- based broadband and telecommunications company, has received the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) 510(k) clearance for a cloud-based, remote patient-monitoring medical device called Converged Health Management. ...
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GP practices could be investigated by the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) if they fail to warn patients that identifiable data will be extracted from their electronic health records to be used by the National Health Service (NHS) ...
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British drug maker GSK is set to open its individual patient data pertaining to the clinical trials of an array of medicines, which will enable researchers to leverage them in their specific scientific purposes. The drug company, which ...
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Healthcare providers in the United States have preconceived notions about electronic health records-namely, that EHR systems haven't lived up to their promise of transforming healthcare by improving efficiency and cutting costs. The ...
WellStar Health System is set to install Capsule Tech's DataCaptor software across its five-hospital system in Marietta, Georgia, US. Initially focusing on the surgical settings, the DataCaptor will capture the physiological data directly ...
Advanced Biological Laboratories (ABL) has received CE Mark approval to market its patient monitoring application TherapyEdge in Europe. TherapyEdge helps to not only capture but also to integrate all patient data and particular decision ...
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