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 ...

Medtronic announced Tuesday that it has created a companion app to its pacemaker system whereby patients can use their smartphone or tablet to wirelessly transmit readings to doctors. This is the ...

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 ...

Medtronic has received FDA clearance for a mobile app that allows patients to remotely forward data from their pacemakers with their physicians. The app is paired with a device, the MyCareLink Smart ...

The list of smartphone capabilities seems to expand daily and now, for patients with an implantable pacemaker from Medtronic Plc (Dublin), there is even a mobile app designed to monitor the device ...

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 ...

Patients using Medtronic pacemakers will soon be able to access data from these implanted devices directly from a new smartphone app, VentureBeat reports. Medtronic officially launched the app, dubbed ...

WASHINGTON -- The government has approved a pacemaker outfitted with a tiny transmitter that can tell your doctor how your heart is doing -- the first medical implant capable of such real-time ...

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 ...

The Cleveland Clinic has named four medtech developments to its annual top 10 list of medical innovations. In a statement Tuesday, the academic medical center identified smartphone-connected pacemaker ...