Human Body Monitors
A human life should be monitored for its health status? Such protection is needed to help
anticipate heart attacks, strokes, hormone imbalances, sugar levels, and hundreds of other
bodily vital signs and malfunctions that can upset the normal functioning of a human body.
To do this, one needs to outfit one's body with medical implants.
Just like you need to have a thermostat to monitor and control the temperature of your
home, you need to at least monitor your body and perhaps control it as well. More and
more people are walking around with heart pacemakers which both monitor the heart and
can stimulate the heart if necessary.
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Here's a switch: a new medical technology that can save money in health care, rather than
add to costs.
Tim Fischell, in fact, believes the medical device he co-invented to warn people of an
impending heart attack, enabling them to get treatment before it occurs, could save millions
of dollars annually as well as thousand of lives.
"That's unheard of -- advanced technology actually saving Medicare money?" said Fischell,
a cardiologist and director of cardiovascular research at the Borgess Research Institute in
Kalamazoo.
The financial savings would come from the costs avoided in caring for people in the years
after they survive a major heart attack, Fischell said. The device costs $8,000 to $10,000 and
up to $20,000 installed, including professional fees connected to the implantation procedure.
There's also the untold costs associated with a significantly better quality of life for a person
whose major heart attack was avoided, Fischell said.
Fischell, along with his father and brother, Robert and David Fischell, invented the
AngelMed Guardian cardiac monitor and alert system. David Fischell serves as the CEO of
Angel Medical Systems Inc., the New Jersey company that produces the device, which is
already approved for use in Brazil.
Angel Medical Systems hopes to secure FDA approval for use in the U.S. by the end of 2012,
Fischell said. Most of the research and development work on the device has occurred in
Kalamazoo.
Implanted under the skin near the collarbone and using a wire placed in the right chamber
of the heart, the pacemaker-sized device is intended for people who are at high risk of a
heart attack -- they have coronary artery disease, for instance -- or have already experienced
one and survived.
The device monitors a person's cardiac activity for signs that indicate a heart attack may
occur.
Using Bluetooth technology, the device alerts people via a pager so they can seek
immediate medical attention. The more acute the symptoms, the more pronounced the alert.
After showing promise in an earlier trial with 20 high-risk patients, the AngelMed Guardian
has begun a year-long Phase II clinical trial that will involve 1,200 patients at 30 medical
centers.
Freescale preps home health hub platform
By R Colin Johnson, EE Times -- EDN, November 16, 2011
PORTLAND, Ore -- As medical sensors monitoring both people and their environment
proliferate, Freescale Semiconductor aims to reintegrate them with a Home Health Hub
(HHH) reference design that handles all popular wired and wireless protocols -- a kind of
universal router for connecting cloud computers to home health care.
At the MEDICA conference (Dusseldorf, Germany, November 16-19, 2011) Freescale will
describe how its HHH integrates WiFi, Ethernet, USB, Bluetooth, and ZigBee into a single
router that connects medical sensors (inputs), to tablet displays (outputs), to medical
analytics in the clouds (processing) and to doctors advise online.
The HHH aggregates medical monitoring devices -- such as blood pressure monitors, blood
glucometers, weight scales, pulse oximeters, and similar -- for cloud computers which can
store the data for display to doctors, as well as run analytics the results of which can be
displayed directly on the patient's on their tablet display, such as advising an insulin
injection to a diabetic from a glucose reading. The HHH's intelligent iMX-28 processor --
based on an ARM-9 core -- can also communicate sensor readings directly to tablets for
display as well as securely share health data with service providers.
"The World Health Organization claims there are hundreds of millions of chronic disease
patents worldwide -- over 75% of our healthcare spending," said Steven Dean, Freescale's
Global Healthcare segment leader. "Remote patient monitoring devices based on Freescale's
Home Health Hub can cut health care costs by allowing patients to remain at home, as well
as provide peace of mind for family members."
The HHH is compatible with Continua medical devices including blood pressure monitors,
pulse oximeters, and weight scales. It is also compatible with Microsoft's HealthVault cloud
computer service which can log medical data to secure online repositories that lets users
organize, store, and share health information with their doctors. The HHH also includes a
"panic button" capability that uses a sub-1 GHz radio to activate a personal emergency
response system (PERS) with the HHH.
The HHH is software is compatible with Android, Linux, Windows Embedded Compact 7,
and QNX's Neutrino realtime operating system (RTOS) on the i.MX-53 Sabre tablet platform.
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A human life should be monitored for its health status? Such protection is needed to help
anticipate heart attacks, strokes, hormone imbalances, sugar levels, and hundreds of other
bodily vital signs and malfunctions that can upset the normal functioning of a human body.
To do this, one needs to outfit one's body with medical implants.
Just like you need to have a thermostat to monitor and control the temperature of your
home, you need to at least monitor your body and perhaps control it as well. More and
more people are walking around with heart pacemakers which both monitor the heart and
can stimulate the heart if necessary.
http://www.mlive.com/business/west-michigan/index.ssf/2009/03/device_aims_to_prev
ent_heart_a.html
Here's a switch: a new medical technology that can save money in health care, rather than
add to costs.
Tim Fischell, in fact, believes the medical device he co-invented to warn people of an
impending heart attack, enabling them to get treatment before it occurs, could save millions
of dollars annually as well as thousand of lives.
"That's unheard of -- advanced technology actually saving Medicare money?" said Fischell,
a cardiologist and director of cardiovascular research at the Borgess Research Institute in
Kalamazoo.
The financial savings would come from the costs avoided in caring for people in the years
after they survive a major heart attack, Fischell said. The device costs $8,000 to $10,000 and
up to $20,000 installed, including professional fees connected to the implantation procedure.
There's also the untold costs associated with a significantly better quality of life for a person
whose major heart attack was avoided, Fischell said.
Fischell, along with his father and brother, Robert and David Fischell, invented the
AngelMed Guardian cardiac monitor and alert system. David Fischell serves as the CEO of
Angel Medical Systems Inc., the New Jersey company that produces the device, which is
already approved for use in Brazil.
Angel Medical Systems hopes to secure FDA approval for use in the U.S. by the end of 2012,
Fischell said. Most of the research and development work on the device has occurred in
Kalamazoo.
Implanted under the skin near the collarbone and using a wire placed in the right chamber
of the heart, the pacemaker-sized device is intended for people who are at high risk of a
heart attack -- they have coronary artery disease, for instance -- or have already experienced
one and survived.
The device monitors a person's cardiac activity for signs that indicate a heart attack may
occur.
Using Bluetooth technology, the device alerts people via a pager so they can seek
immediate medical attention. The more acute the symptoms, the more pronounced the alert.
After showing promise in an earlier trial with 20 high-risk patients, the AngelMed Guardian
has begun a year-long Phase II clinical trial that will involve 1,200 patients at 30 medical
centers.
Freescale preps home health hub platform
By R Colin Johnson, EE Times -- EDN, November 16, 2011
PORTLAND, Ore -- As medical sensors monitoring both people and their environment
proliferate, Freescale Semiconductor aims to reintegrate them with a Home Health Hub
(HHH) reference design that handles all popular wired and wireless protocols -- a kind of
universal router for connecting cloud computers to home health care.
At the MEDICA conference (Dusseldorf, Germany, November 16-19, 2011) Freescale will
describe how its HHH integrates WiFi, Ethernet, USB, Bluetooth, and ZigBee into a single
router that connects medical sensors (inputs), to tablet displays (outputs), to medical
analytics in the clouds (processing) and to doctors advise online.
The HHH aggregates medical monitoring devices -- such as blood pressure monitors, blood
glucometers, weight scales, pulse oximeters, and similar -- for cloud computers which can
store the data for display to doctors, as well as run analytics the results of which can be
displayed directly on the patient's on their tablet display, such as advising an insulin
injection to a diabetic from a glucose reading. The HHH's intelligent iMX-28 processor --
based on an ARM-9 core -- can also communicate sensor readings directly to tablets for
display as well as securely share health data with service providers.
"The World Health Organization claims there are hundreds of millions of chronic disease
patents worldwide -- over 75% of our healthcare spending," said Steven Dean, Freescale's
Global Healthcare segment leader. "Remote patient monitoring devices based on Freescale's
Home Health Hub can cut health care costs by allowing patients to remain at home, as well
as provide peace of mind for family members."
The HHH is compatible with Continua medical devices including blood pressure monitors,
pulse oximeters, and weight scales. It is also compatible with Microsoft's HealthVault cloud
computer service which can log medical data to secure online repositories that lets users
organize, store, and share health information with their doctors. The HHH also includes a
"panic button" capability that uses a sub-1 GHz radio to activate a personal emergency
response system (PERS) with the HHH.
The HHH is software is compatible with Android, Linux, Windows Embedded Compact 7,
and QNX's Neutrino realtime operating system (RTOS) on the i.MX-53 Sabre tablet platform.
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