Intel is developing Health Guide that will work at home. A small device about the size of a small-form-factor PC, the Health Guide PHS6000 is a small white box with a flip-up 10.4-inch LCD touchscreen, a webcam with privacy shield, and a touchscreen. Inside it is an undisclosed Intel processor and motherboard, together with Bluetooth and four USB ports. The Health Guide requires a broadband connection, which it uses to connect to doctors and healthcare professionals, and to download content onto its small hard drive. Read the rest of this article »

Health care is becoming increasingly consumer-driven all over the world and medical devices are finding their way into lives of the general population. Now people are more interested in healthcare buying decisions than ever before. This welcome trend allows device designers and manufacturers to target directly at patients.

Medical devices look and feel like everyday electronics. Device developers have been offering insulin pumps that look like pagers, monitoring devices that feel like personal digital assistants, and medical electronics on wearable platforms, but people are getting wiser and demanding more. Patients want to minimize the stigma of their reliance on medical technology, and they want their medical devices to have the same kind of design appeal as cell phones. Best thing is that developers added by advices in technology are delivering. Read the rest of this article »