The company Cambridge Consultants have launched an asthma inhaler for people with wireless, nicknamed Vena, sending the readings collected at a management center in the home, or an online health record such as Google Health or Microsoft Health Vault.

The idea is that patients and medical professionals in charge are connected remotely via medical devices such as this. Technically employs two standards that are gaining importance, IEEE11073 infrared and Bluetooth profile for medical devices. This inhaled combines both communications technologies in a single chip.

The audience inhalers affix to an online claimed bloom affliction appliance via a smartphone or a computer. The inhaler again can both admonish patients to yield their analysis and forward acquiescence advice to the accordant claimed bloom affliction area online. Both accommodating and bloom affliction specialist can admission the defended advice to adviser advance and affix with one another.

Aside from the inhalers, added Vena-enabled medical devices, which are bearding at this time, will be advised to affix similarly.

There are lots of abeyant allowances here. Researchers and bloom affliction providers can use non-patient-specific abstracts aggregate by these accessories to advance heath affliction services. The arrangement could aswell advice facilitate the aboriginal apprehension of problems and advance to proactive intervention.

Like the GPS-enabled inhaler I wrote about endure month, it’s cryptic if you can get yourself a Vena-enabled device. However, Cambridge Consultants is alive on authoritative Vena accessible to bloom affliction accessory developers, so it’s safe to say that your doctor ability recommenced you one in a abreast future.

This engineering eye is not as perfect as the original eye. But by replacing the function of retinal cells, this bionic robot can help provide the basis for the vision of those who suffer from retinitis pigmentation or age-related muscular degeneration, the leading cause of blindness.

In addition, users will be wearing special glasses equipped with a small camera that can send images to a chip relay wrapped in titanium that is placed on the outer surface of the eyeball. The chip will then send the electrode under the retina to stimulate the optic nerve. Glasses will also wireless send that surrounds the eyeball.

MIT scientists have been working to develop this retinal implants for 20 years as part of the Boston Retinal Implant Project. Around 10 years ago, the researchers tested six electrodes in the blind patients, who reported seeing clouds like images when stimulated.

“We need three years to test this retinal implant, in order to work optimally,” explained chairman of the MIT scientists Jhon Wyatt, told Cnet.

Retinal implant has been successfully tested in pigs for 10 months without damaging the electronics.

Around 20 teams around the world who work to make dreams eye implants, is now developing cochlear implants are intended for hearing-impaired people.

Elderly people living alone often forgotten under the circumstances, taking pills, even if these are vital. The pharmaceutical company Novartis has for the first time a blood-pressure lowering tablet with a biodegradable microchip fitted, which will signal whether the pill in time arrives in the stomach.

How does the pill chip?
A microchip is a tiny electronic component, which may express concepts and signals. The pills chip company Novartis produces a specific electrical signal when the tablet, in which it is located is decomposed by stomach acid. This electrical signal is sent to another chip that is mounted in a patch on the shoulder of the patient. So the patch chip information “undergoes swallowed pill.” If the signal fails, the larger chip can on the pavement by radio signal to send a reminder SMS to a mobile phone of the patient or his relatives.

What happens to the chip in the stomach pills?
In addition, the missed medication may also be sent via Internet to the competent doctors. Novartis has tested the microchip pills recently in 20 patients: after only 6 months increased the correct, regular use of the blood pressure-lowering drug from initial 30% to almost 80%. This study can not possibly be considered as a first test run for a drug study for an observation period is from half a year with only 20 participants, very little.

The chip in the pill is only as big as a grain of sand. It contains a tiny battery, which is made from food and is easy to digest, the manufacturing company. If the battery comes into contact with water, it generates an electrical signal that passes through the tissue of the patient. Per Pill that micro-chip costs a few cents. The price of the patch with the radio chip is, however, probably far higher.

The scandals surrounding the loss of highly sensitive data with banks, employment agencies and personnel departments in companies do not stop. SMS can also relatively easy to intercept. Thus it is entirely possible that information on the medication get into the wrong hands. For older people, the radio chip could indeed be a genuine relief to the tablets, but they must be able to use a cell phone. Those who can not, and are regularly reminded of his relatives need such assistance could quickly perceive as annoying spoon-feeding. How useful it is to inform physicians with electronic information on the tablets, is also questionable, because they already have to pay an enormous administrative work.