News tagged with blood pressure monitoring

World's first iPhone-connected blood pressure system with online monitoring

What is more convenient then keeping tabs on your blood pressure with your smartphone? The first Apple iPhone-connected blood pressure monitor system has been launched, which even allows for online monitoring and blood ...

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created Jan 05, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Health care using telephone and telemonitoring technology benefits heart failure patients

Providing patients with chronic heart failure access to remote monitoring, for example by telephone or telemonitoring using wireless technology, reduces deaths and hospitalisations and may provide benefits on health care ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Aug 07, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Knowledge is power in Penn State blood pressure study

When it comes to chronic diseases, knowledge is power, according to Penn State researchers who will test an education program on patients with high blood pressure to help them manage their disease.

Medicine & Health / Health

created Apr 21, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Modern 'House Call' is Cost-Effective Model for Improving Blood Pressure

(PhysOrg.com) -- Combining home-based blood pressure monitoring and telephone counseling significantly improves a person's blood pressure control at a minimal cost, according to a study published online in the Annals of ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Oct 06, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Peer-to-peer heart monitoring

The possibility of remote monitoring for chronically ill patients will soon become a reality. Now, researchers in South Africa and Australia have devised a decentralized system to avoid medical data overload. They describe ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Mar 09, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Sensor in artery measures blood pressure

(PhysOrg.com) -- High blood pressure can be a trial of patience for doctors and for sufferers, whose blood pressure often has to be monitored over a long time until it can be regulated. This will now be made ...

Technology / Engineering

created Jan 05, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 0