Send your heartbeat information to the doctor's computer, Blackberry or other mobile phone with an implanted Wireless Pressure System

This is slated to cut down on emergency room visits. By using a wireless device, the physicians can log in to monitor the patient's heart, and this way the patient can go home. The implant is located pulmonary artery. "The technology that allows for subjects to get readings remotely from home is a proprietary electronic monitoring system that works when they lie on a pillow containing an antenna that interacts with the implanted device to get readings on heart and lung pressure."

In addition, the patient will need the "electronic pillow" to lay down and transmit the information. Everything appears to be having an electronic cord of some sorts these days, hardwire or wireless. I hope the pillow would prove to be comfortable and allow one to rest as well, gives a new meaning to "pillow talk". BD

Some heart failure patients spend a lot of time in and out of the hospital due to chest pain and trouble breathing," says John B. O'Connell, MD, co-director of the Bluhm Cardiovascular Institute, director of its Center for Heart Failure and professor of medicine at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine. "At any time, such as when the subject is beginning to feel poorly, we immediately get readings of pulmonary pressure. We are hopeful we can avoid a hospitalization by adjusting the subject's medication based on the pressure recording. As we evaluate the CardioMEMS Wireless Pressure Monitoring System, we see great potential to increase convenience to patients and hospital efficiency by cutting back on frequent trips to the emergency room.