Mobile point-of-care monitors and diagnostic device design /

Efficient mobile systems that allow for vital sign monitoring and disease diagnosis at the point of care can help combat issues such as rising healthcare costs, treatment delays in remote and resource-poor areas, and the global shortage of skilled medical personnel. Covering everything from sensors,...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author:	Taylor & Francis
Other Authors:	Karlen, Walter (Editor), Iniewski, Krzysztof, 1960- (Editor)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Language Notes:	English.
Published:	Boca Raton, FL : CRC Press, [2015]
Series:	Devices, circuits, and systems.
Subjects:	Diagnosis > Equipment and supplies > Design. Medical instruments and apparatus > Design. Point-of-care testing. Diagnostic imaging. Diagnostic equipment industry. Diagnostic Equipment Point-of-Care Systems Diagnostic Imaging Equipment Design Mobile Applications Diagnostics biologiques délocalisés. Imagerie pour le diagnostic. Diagnostics > Appareils et matériel > Industrie. HEALTH & FITNESS > Holism. HEALTH & FITNESS > Reference. MEDICAL > Alternative Medicine. MEDICAL > Atlases. MEDICAL > Essays. MEDICAL > Family & General Practice. MEDICAL > Holistic Medicine. MEDICAL > Osteopathy. Diagnostic imaging Diagnostic equipment industry Medical instruments and apparatus > Design Point-of-care testing Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:

Interfacing diagnostics with consumer electronics / Pakorn Preechaburana, A. Suska, and Daniel Filippini
Lab on a cellphone / Ahmet F. Coskun, Hongying Zhu, Onur Mudanyali, and Aydogan Ozcan
The phone oximeter / Christian Leth Petersen
Current technology and advances in transepidermal water loss sensors / Pietro Salvo, Bernardo Melai, Nicola Calisi, and Fabio Di Francesco
Portable high-frequency ultrasound imaging system design and hardware considerations / Insoo Kim, Hyunsoo Kim, Flavio Griggio, Richard L. Tutwiler, Thomas N. Jackson, Susan Trolier-McKinstry, and Kyusun Choi
Automated blood smear analysis for mobile malaria diagnosis / John A. Quinn, Alfred Andama, Ian Munabi, and Fred N. Kiwanuka
Usability engineering for mobile point-of-care devices / Grace Bartoo and Terri Bogucki
Translating sensor technology into the medical device environment / Robert D. Black.