The world’s very first fully implanted pacemaker, in 1958, lasted three hours before the batteries failed. It was replaced by one that lasted two days. Ultimately, Arne Larsson – surgical guinea pig – ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Medtronic announced that it has received FDA approval for a mobile app-based remote monitoring system for ...

Royal Philips Electronics has announced a new service that provides Web-based remote monitoring follow-up services for patients with pacemakers. The new service, which was made available to cardiology ...

Now it's official: Smart devices can do everything. Medtronic ($MDT) has launched the first app-based remote monitoring for implantable pacemakers. Remote monitoring ...

Data presented during a Late Breaking Clinical Trial at Heart Rhythm 2014 is the industry’s largest study of remote management of pacemaker patients ST. PAUL, Minn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- St. Jude Medical ...

Background: To determine the sensitivity and specificity, rate of compliance, and predictors of failure of telephone transmission of pacemaker function in a pediatric population. Methods: A total of 2 ...

Clinicians have been able to remotely monitor pacemakers for years thanks to a combination of near-field and remote wireless technologies, but until now, patients haven’t been able to access the data ...

A pacemaker from Medtronic, newly approved by the Food and Drug Administration, allows patients to securely transmit data from the pacemaker to their physicians via a smartphone or tablet using ...

The COMPAS study enrolled a total of 538 patients at 43 centers in France from February 2006 to January 2008. Patients, who presented with classic indications for a pacemaker, were implanted with a ...

URBANA — Keeping a cellphone nearby means a lot more to Steve Eitel these days than being able to make a call. With the help of a new app, his cellphone has also become a tool for receiving vital ...

When Bill Rushmore, a cybersecurity engineer with General Motors, talks about his next upgrade, he isn't referring to a car. Eventually, Rushmore will need a replacement for his current pacemaker to ...

ST. PAUL, Minn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--St. Jude Medical, Inc. (NYSE:STJ), a global medical device company, announced that data presented during a Late Breaking Clinical Trial Session during Heart Rhythm ...