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Mayo Clinic to Telemonitor Heart Patients - BusinessWeek
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Mayo Clinic to Telemonitor Heart Patients

Posted by: Michael Arndt on November 05

Mayo Clinic is moving toward becoming more of a virtual hospital. The not-for-profit complex just announced a telemedicine collaboration this morning with a Swiss semiconductor company, STMicroelectronics , to monitor the condition of cardiac patients from outside their hospital rooms. Patients would wear a lightweight device that would pick up such information as heart and breathing rates and beam the data to medical personnel.

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