TechToday Special Report
Jump Starting Cellphone Telemedicine
Medical professionals and technologists
are finding ways to shrink::
1. expensive medical machines
2. medical diagnostic equipment
3. lifestyle biometric data collecting sensors
To enable people to acquire diagnosis, treatment, and/or biofeedback anywhere they have a cellular connection. This type of technology can reduce time in doctor's office, lengths of stays in hospitals, and even help people keep themselves mentally and physically fit.
A Second Chance at Sight
The bionic dream is to one day be able to replace human parts with biomedical cellular reconstructed organs or electro-mechanical systems. These systems will restore or enhance physical abilities to pre-damaged conditions.
The eye implant described in this month's column is the product of twenty years of research and development. The collaborators include engineers, scientists, and medical doctors from MIT, Harvard Medical School, Cornell University, and the Boston VA Medical Center.
Bionic Sight
As a Pediatric Ophthalmologist Dr. Alan Chow was frustrated by his inability to prevent a degenerative eye disease from blinding one of his young patients. He is the originator of the vision chip.
Artificial Heart
Approximately five million people in the placecountry-regionUnited States today suffer from Congestive Heart Failure, a disease that can simply be described as a broken heart. During the FDA study eighty percent of the patients in need of heart transplant surgery survived on this artificial heart long enough to have their hearts replaced with a donor heart.
PolyHeme:
The Universal
Blood Substitute
This study will determine if this artificial oxygen carrying blood substitute, which is compatible with all blood types, is ready for widespread use in everyday trauma and surgical settings.
Deactivating
Blood Pathogens
With all the possible dangers, people all over the world still need blood transfusions at a rate of one person every three seconds. A new blood cleansing technology has recently been developed that deactivates pathogens in blood components.
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This Fake Tattoo Can Monitor a Person’s Vital Signs
October 2011
Professor John Rogers and his team at the University of Illinois have developed a prototype temporary tattoo that contains microelectronic circuits on a clear rubber transfer medium. The team’s temporary body art tattoos can monitor a person's vital signs while they are up and about performing their normal daily activities.
By Alan J. Pierce EdD
A Tattoo
Medical Breakthrough
Microelectronic circuits inside the tattoo monitor vital signs of the patient.
Medical Technologies
