Telemedicine “is going to become as common as a cell phone in our industry,” a US health official predicts. There is growing evidence that he is right. Take remote intensivist ICU care, for instance. Intensivists are in short supply, and telemedicine is helping to reduce that shortage. There’s no reason it cannot also reduce the […]

Having found evidence that home medical monitoring pays dividends, the land that led the world in cell phone design and manufacturing is turning its attention to subcutaneous sensors for biomonitoring. Not surprisingly, the sensor data will be transmitted to the doctor’s cell phone. Meanwhile, at the supercutaneous level, the first consumer apparel that monitors vital […]