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Implantable Wireless Heart Failure Management System Significantly Reduces Hospital Readmissions and May Inspire Implantable Diagnostic Test Devices

Mar 18, 2015 | Instruments & Equipment, Laboratory Instruments & Laboratory Equipment, Laboratory Management and Operations, Laboratory News, Laboratory Operations, Laboratory Pathology

Implantable devices with this technology could be designed to perform some of the same kinds of assays currently handled in medical labs

Implantable diagnostic devices that report results wirelessly to patients’ physicians could be both a threat and an opportunity for clinical laboratories and pathology groups. News of clearance by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) of an implantable monitoring device for home use by heart patients demonstrates that such technology is improving with rapid speed.

Could Implantable Monitoring Devices Replace Some Medical Lab Tests?

Patients use CardioMEMS from the comfort of their homes. The implantable monitoring device measures pulmonary artery pressures and heart rates and transmits that data wirelessly to physicians. It was last summer when the FDA cleared the CardioMEMS Heart Failure Management System, manufactured by St. Jude Medical of St. Paul, MN. Such implantable technology could eventually perform certain assays currently handled in medical laboratories. (more…)

Wireless Patient Monitoring and Diagnostic Systems Using MBANs Should Be on the Radar Screens of Pathologists and Clinical Laboratory Professionals

Feb 17, 2014 | Digital Pathology, Instruments & Equipment, Laboratory Management and Operations, Laboratory News, Laboratory Pathology, Uncategorized

Experts are excited about the swift development of wireless remote monitoring of patients; companies expected to develop sensors that incorporate a wide range of biomarkers

Some experts predict that the era of wireless, remote monitoring of patients is almost upon us. It will require pathologists and medical laboratory professionals to learn a new acronym: MBAN, which stands for medical body area network.

There is keen interest in remote wireless monitoring systems. The concept is to free patients from the hospital bed and allow continuous remote monitoring, regardless of where the patient is located. For this reason, in just a few years and in many local markets, opportunities are likely to be ripe for pathologists and clinical laboratory teams to have a role in managing wireless medical devices that use MBANs. (more…)

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