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Weekly Wireless Roundup: Monitor your baby with wireless pajamas

September 1, 2010 by MassDevice

Monitor your baby with wireless pajamas; Medgadget's review of Lenovo's new all-in-one touchscreen PC; vital signs monitor interfaces directly with EHR's; NovoDose mobile app helps docs determine insulin needs.

Weekly Wireless Roundup: Monitor your baby with wireless pajamas

Monitor your baby with wireless pajamas: McLean, Va.-based Exmovere claims to have developed baby clothing, called Exmobaby, that can monitor a child's heart rate, "emotional state," and level of activity, and relay that information wirelessly to a computer or cell phone. Paranoid parents will be able to keep a virtual eye on their kids 24/7, and maybe worries about SIDS and infant sleep apnea can be diminished. An initial production of 1,000 units will be made available in 2011 to select customers.

Weekly Wireless Roundup: GPS-enabled inhalers for rural sufferers of asthma

August 25, 2010 by MassDevice

GPS-enabled inhalers for rural sufferers of asthma; Medtronic releases diabetes education mobile app for kids; sign language-focused video phones; Unbound Medicine launches drug app for families.

Weekly Wireless Roundup: GPS-enabled inhalers for rural sufferers of asthma

GPS-enabled asthma inhalers: Asthma is looked upon as primarily an urban problem probably exacerbated by air pollution from cars and heavy industry. According to Centers for Disease Control research, however, it turns out that asthma is just as common in rural areas. To identify triggers that cause asthma attacks, a research study is currently underway that uses GPS-enabled inhalers to record when and where patients used the device. Collecting enough information over a substantial enough amount of time may help researchers spot which locations and environmental factors trigger asthmatic reactions.

Intelligent Mobile's mhealth platform for healthcare sales reps

August 24, 2010 by MedCity News

Cleveland-based start-up Intelligent Mobile Support hopes to capitalize on the steady growth of mobile Internet access.

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Cleveland-area start-up Intelligent Mobile Support is hoping to cash in on the shift to hand-held devices.

Morgan Stanley estimates the number of mobile Internet users to eclipse their desk-bound counterparts within five years. One-year-old Intelligent Mobile markets its mobile platform to medical equipment and device companies so they can deliver training and product support materials to sales representatives in the field.

Weekly Wireless Roundup: Nuance Communications releases mobile medical search app

August 18, 2010 by MassDevice

Nuance Communications releases mobile medical search app; Epocrates is giving away its Essentials to medical students; take social media to a new level by sharing blood pressure online; Computer Sciences Corp. report: Hospitals struggle to meet federal EHR requirements.

Weekly Wireless Roundup: Nuance Communications releases mobile medical search ap

Nuance Communications releases mobile medical search app: Nuance released its Dragon Medical Mobile Search iPhone application today in Apple's app store. The smartphone app shows medical reference and web-based information simultaneously from a variety search engines, including IMO, Medline, Drugs.mobi, Medscape and Google. The app also uses voice-search functionality, providing doctors with an almost hands-free interface.

Healthsense looks to raise $6.8 million

August 17, 2010 by MedCity News

Telemedicine firm Healthsense Inc. registers a nearly $6.8 million equity, options and warrants offering.

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Healthsense Inc. is looking to raise $6.8 million from the sale of equity and warrants, according to documents filed with the Securities & Exchange Commission.

The company, based in Mendota Heights, Minn., makes remote home monitoring technologies for the elderly. Healthsense will use the money to fund working capital and development of new versions of its core eNeighborhood products, CFO Terry Barck said.

Proteus Biomedical nabs CE Mark for ingestible sensor

August 13, 2010 by MassDevice staff

Proteus Biomedical Inc. wins CE Mark approval to market its ingestible sensor and personal physiologic monitor system in the European Union.

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European Union doctors may now begin prescribing Proteus Biomedical Inc.'s "Raisins."

The Redwood City, Calif.-based company won CE Mark approval for its ingestible "Raisin" sensor and personal physiologic monitor system.

Proteus also announced ISO 13485:2003 certification for the system, according to a press release.

CardioNet beats shareholder lawsuit

August 12, 2010 by MassDevice staff

Mobile cardiac monitoring firm CardioNet Inc. logs a win in a shareholder lawsuit accusing it, its CEO and CFO of misleading investors over its prospects for high Medicare reimbursement.

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CardioNet Inc. (NSDQ:BEAT) won a lawsuit filed against it by shareholders last year, accusing the mobile cardiac monitoring firm of misleading investors about Medicare reimbursement.

Judge Stewart Dalzell of the U.S. District Court for Eastern Pennsylvania granted Conshohocken, Pa.-based CardioNet's move to dismiss the case August 10, calling on each aprty to bear its own legal costs.

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