Using an off-the-shelf digital camera, Rice University biomedical engineers and researchers from the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center have created an inexpensive device that is powerful enough to let doctors easily distinguish cancerous cells from healthy cells simply by viewing the LCD monitor on the back of the camera. The results of the [...]
Roseburg’s Mercy Medical Center Emergency Room has a new way to connect local patients to out of area specialist doctors through a new internet connected webcam program. Equipped with high quality cameras microphones and speakers on a fully pivoting head, the machine is called an “InTouch Robot.” A doctor from a remote location can dial [...]
Emergency rooms and health clinics are notorious for the long waits visits typically entail. That’s why InQuickER—which we covered last year—emerged to let patients reserve a spot ahead of time, and it’s also apparently why Singapore’s Ministry of Health has developed a service to give citizens a real-time view from home of how crowded clinics [...]
Special computer games could help stroke sufferers recover, a University of Ulster researcher has claimed. The Games for Rehabilitation project focuses on rehabilitation of the upper limbs and involves the player using their hands and arms to touch targets which move around the screen. Their movements are tracked by a webcam and the game responds [...]
It was a very good Friday for West Milford native Eric Rodriguez, a Marine stationed in Africa, who was able to welcome his baby daughter into the world with help from Morristown Memorial Hospital and the Internet. Using a mobile computer terminal equipped with the video-teleconferencing program, Skype, and a webcam, Eric and his wife, [...]
Australian soldiers posted overseas now have the chance to see their newborn babies within hours of their birth. The soldiers can keep a close eye on their newborn babies in hospital thanks to modern technology. By the click of just one button, new fathers will be to see their son or daughter through a new [...]
People who are deaf are almost twice as likely to experience a mental health problem as people who can hear, and the very nature of the disability creates problems accessing helplines that could offer support in cases of stress, depression or suicidal thoughts. However, an innovative webcam service that allows deaf people in Scotland to [...]
Are you feeling low? Do you have any health problems? Do you not have the time or are you unable to visit a Doctors office when you are not well? If your answer to any or all of the questions is yes, the solution to all your problems is the Internet. Yes, it’s true, you [...]
Technology is helping a little boy with cancer stay in touch with his friends in school. Ian Keisacker is a first-grader at Holy Spirit in Sioux Falls and gets a weekly visit from his classmates through a webcam. Every Tuesday, a group of Holy Spirit first graders get to say “hello” to a friend who [...]
Data security is a hard enough problem to solve on even a heavily regulated corporate network, but it becomes even more difficult when users are out in the wild with PDAs, cell phones and other portable communications devices. A recent PhD project at the University of Twente in the Netherlands has described a user-friendly solution [...]