Social media, touch screen technology and the inescapable Apple iPAD all grabbed the headlines at the Ideaworks for Healthcare event in Amsterdam this week. High on the list of discussion points were the need to better understand patients as consumers at a time when some 82 percent of households in Holland...

A revolutionary bluetooth stethoscope has scooped the Popular Science Innovation of the Year Award, 2009. The Littmann Electronic Stethoscope Model 3200 with Zargis Cardioscan software transmits heart sounds to a doctor’s PC by Bluetooth, while the Cardioscan software renders a near real-time graphical...