John Farrell

Encouraging news from our neighbors to the north: a study by researchers at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver Coastal Health and the Child & Family Research Institute (CFRI), finds that a cell phone-sized, wireless near-infrared device is as reliable as the current "gold standard" invasive tests in determining bladder disease. More

Coming on the heels of news that the patient monitoring system market will reach $9.3 billion in 2014, IBM has announced it's expanding its Health Analytics Solution Center in Dallas. Company officials say teams there are working to help physicians connect smart phones, tablets and other devices to electronic medical records, while also helping healthcare providers build new solutions for remote patient monitoring. More

Could a new "power-and-go" radio frequency (RF) platform phase out infrared and RF discrete designs in active RFID applications, such as patient monitoring and asset tracking Executives at Camarillo, Calif.-based Semtech are confident the launch of the company's new SX1240 and SX1242 ISM-band RF transmitters will replace IR and RF discrete designs with an integrated, cost-effective radio solution for one-way remote keyless entry (RKE) and remote control products that are common to several industries, including healthcare. More

We all know chronic diseases are expensive to manage-evidenced by how many mHealth offerings focus on holding these costs in check while improving quality of care-so why not extend that rationale to include patients' vehicles A new research effort joining Ford Motor Company and Baltimore-based WellDoc aims to do just that. More

Near Field Communication (NFC) technologies, which typically require a distance of four centimeters or less, are finding a home in healthcare's mobile phones. Case in point: the fully integrated, medical-grade wireless monitoring kit that was just unveiled by Gentag and The Core Institute to enable patients to self-monitor for excessive swelling in a surgery area, or inside casts, after hospital discharge. More

About 200 clients at Muskogee, Okla.-based Green Country Behavioral Health Services are benefitting from the addition of a telehealth program aimed at pairing psychiatrists and patients throughout Muskogee County. Since the service was launched on April 2, telehealth technology has been enabling clients to have private audio-visual meetings with a psychiatrist in another city to help regulate their medications. More

Would it be easier for healthcare's CIOs, IT managers and other decision makers to make informed decisions if they had someplace where they could custom-build in-building wireless solutions that meet their rapidly changing needs Company officials at Newport Beach, Calif.-based Integer Wireless believe it would, and they're building the Integer Wireless Experience Center to make their case. More

St. Joseph Health System (SJHS), located in Orange, Calif., is making a push to improve patient safety by implementing RF Surgical System's radio frequency (RF) detection technology in operating rooms throughout the $4.6 billion healthcare system. More

With over 4,000 downloads to its credit since being released two weeks ago, Skyscape's CardioSource Mobile app has garnered the attention of cardiologists. The company recently partnered with the American College of Cardiology (ACC) to launch the app, which bundles a fully indexed set of all ACC/American Heart Association guideline recommendations with evidence-based medicine content from CardioSource.org. More