January 22, 2012, SPIE BiOS Conference, San Francisco—The BiOS conference had number of sessions that highlighted technologies that may be transferable to areas outside of formal medicine. Most of the sessions were about specific applications of optical and photonic in formal medicine and biological research. Topics included photonic therapeutics and diagnostics; clinical technologies and systems; [...]

 January 17, 2012, Real-Time & Embedded Computing Conference, Santa Clara, CA—Michael Anderson from The PTR Group described the “Internet of Things- living in a connected world” in the keynote address. The Internet has evolved beyond its creators wildest dreams. What started as the Arpanet for government contractors seemed to be more than able to handle [...]

 January 17, 2012, Medical Electronic Device Solutions Conference, Santa Clara, CA—The FDA described the latest guidelines for mobile medical devices. Bakul Patel, a policy advisor for the FDA, provided a general overview of the thought processes going into policy guidance issues. The technology world is changing very rapidly and now consumer devices are moving into [...]

 January 17, 2012, Medical Electronic Device Solutions Conference, Santa Clara, CA—Alan Boucher from Care Innovations, an Intel-GE joint venture, opened the conference with the question, what can medical device technology learn form the mobile revolution? The wireless world is growing and driving the scaling of technology across all mobile platforms. These devices expose consumers to [...]