Nanotechnology: A Key to Future Diagnosis and Treatment?
Will the future of medicine rely on nanotechnology for treatment of disease? The average size of the avian influenza virus is on the order of 100 nanometers, or 0.1 microns. That a virus so small can...
View ArticleA suggested method to control heart rate pacing and stroke volume in...
Controller Design Concept Update: this weblog article has been updated recently and a PDF of the document along with the new article is available here: Autonomic Heart Rate Controller Device Concept I...
View ArticleRemote View and Monitoring of Mechanical Ventilator Data: 30th Annual...
A component for remote viewing and monitoring of mechanical ventilator data The original paper presented at the 30th Annual Northeast Bioengineering Conference is provided in the link here....
View ArticleApple, Healthcare, and Steve Jobs’ Legacy
Tough Week for Blogging on Healthcare This has been a very tough week, and although I have made a point of attempting to make at least 1 blog entry per day, it simply was not possible due to the...
View ArticleSimple Compression Calculations Using MS Excel and Haar Wavelets
Haar Wavelet Compression From time to time I have been asked to provide explicit details on the mechanics and methods behind Haar wavelet transforms. The purpose of this post is to walk through two...
View ArticleContributing Author–Dictionary of Computer Science, Engineering, and Technology
Zaleski, JR, (contributing Author), Dictionary of Computer Science, Engineering, and Technology, (CRC Press, Phil Laplante, Editor-in-Chief).
View ArticleModeling Post-Operative Minute Volume: Medical Device Integration from...
Medical Device Integration from bedside mechanical ventilators Back in 1998 I wrote my first scholarly article on the topic of modeling spontaneous minute volume as it relates to human body systems....
View ArticleStandardizing around the RS232 serial data adapter (Originally appearing on...
The physics of medical device integration Over the course of the past decade, the subject of electronic medical health records (EHRs) and integration of data from bedside medical devices has gained...
View ArticleModeling Gauss-Markov Noise to Simulate Artifact from Medical Device...
Why modeling of measurement artifact is a useful tool Oftentimes, in analyzing medical device driver performance as part of medical device driver development, it is necessary to recreate physiologic...
View ArticleAutonomic Heart Controller Device Concept
What is an Autonomic Heart Rate Controller? The idea for extending the performance of left-ventricular assist devices (LVADs) occurred to me more than 15 years ago. The idea led me to write a white...
View ArticleUsing Radiofrequency Identification (RFID) to promote improved patient...
What does RFID and Positive Patient Identification have to do with Telemonitoring, anway? Chronic ailments, such as congestive heart failure (CHF), diabetes, chronic obstructive pulmonary order,...
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