News Archive

2003

Infotonic's first grants include bioterror-sensor project with UR

Article by Ben Rand

2002

Alice Pentland receives award

Alice Pentland, M.D, Medical Director of the Center for Future Health, received the Aesklepius award from MIT as the medical person who most advanced the future of health technology in 2002.

Logical Images develops nation's principal smallpox vaccination resource for CDC

Logical Images, an affiliate of the Center for Future Health, developed the nation's principal smallpox vaccination resource for CDC. The web site is the first of several programs to educate physicians and public. Press release, October 31, 2002.

House Calls

Designed as a "living laboratory," the University's "Smart Medical Home" is a cross-disciplinary research effort to develop interactive technology for home health care. It may forever change your notion of personalized medicine—and of home.
Jeffrey Marsh, Rochester Review, Spring-Summer 2002 Vol.64, No.3, pp 22-26.

Graduate Research is Going Corporate

Researchers are developing technology in the Center for Future Health to one day monitor the health of residents in their own homes.
Mathew Daneman, Democrat and Chronicle, June 24, 2002, pp 8A.

UR Researchers Working to Make "Smart" Bandages

Benjamin Miller and his team of researchers are working on smart bandage—a bandage that can detect infection, water purity, contaminated food and even biological warfare agents.
Smriti Jacob, Rochester Business Journal, May 31, 2002, Vol. 18, No.8, pp1 & 12.

Un Pansement qui Soigne

Pour faire des diagnostics plus rapides et plus precis
Nathalie Duplan, National Geographic (French), May 2002.

Smart Bandages

...a smart bandage that warns of an infection by changing color in the presence of different types of bacteria
Popular Mechanics, May 2002, pp 30.

"Smart Bandage" Diagnoses Danger Before Infection Takes Hold

Researchers at the University of Rochester have taken the first step major step toward a bandage that will change color depending on what kind of bacteria may be present in a wound.
Jonathan Sherwood, GlobalTechnoScan.com

Smart Medical Home

Eyes Everywhere
Ivanhoe Broadcast News and TheCarolinaChannel.com, January 31, 2002.

High-tech 'Smart Bandage' Might Detect Germs

Another step toward self-care at home
Sci-Tech, January 31, 2002.

The Bandage With A High IQ

Scientists are working on a "smart bandage" that can detect infection.
CBS News, Jan 28, 2002.

2001

Smart Bandage Diagnoses Infection

Bandage with a brain
Currents, November 19, 2001.

Smart Houses and Bandages

..."smart medical home" is kitted out with all kinds of high-tech gidgety gadgets aimed at improving the resident's health.
Rosie Mestel, Los Angeles Times, November 12, 2001, pp S2.

Smart Bandage Diagnoses Danger Before Infection Takes Hold

Imagine placing an adhesive bandage on a cut and having the bandage tell you immediately that dangerous bacteria have gotten into the wound and that you need to seek a doctor's help.
ScienceDaily, November 2, 2001.

Bandage With Built-In Sensor Can Identify Bacteria

Imagine placing an adhesive bandage on a cut and having the bandage tell you immediately that dangerous bacteria have gotten into the wound and that you need to seek a doctor's help.
Jonathan Sherwood, UniSci, November 5, 2001.

Smart Bandage Diagnoses Danger Before Infection Takes Hold

Imagine placing an adhesive bandage on a cut and having the bandage tell you immediately that dangerous bacteria have gotten into the wound and that you need to seek a doctor's help.
Jonathan Sherwood, University of Rochester Press Release, November 1,2001.

Facing a Healthier Future: UR's 'smart home' develops personal medical technologies

Michael Wentzel, Democrat and Chronicle, October 4, 2001, pp 8D and 12D.

Smart Bandages

Can't tell if your boo-boo is getting infected?
Reader's Digest, November 2001, pp 37.

Bandage

Attention, Moms and Dads: When Junior comes home with skinned knees, a smart bandage may keep him out of trouble.
Newsweek, June 25, 2001, pp 52.

Mirror Mirror

...the smart mirror uses a large-scale camera to create full-body images...
Newsweek, June 25, 2001, pp 53.

Minding Your Own Medical Business

More and more high-tech medical gadgets and gizmos are able to do some of the thinking for you when it comes to keeping track of your health. They're called smart devices—but you don't have to be a dummy to use them.
Andrea Braslavsky, WebMD, May 21, 2001.

A Smart Home, to Avoid the Nursing Home

Elderly people who want to remain in their homes for as long as they can may one day get help from an unlikely source: The homes themselves.
Anne Eisenberg, The New York Times, April 5, 2001.

Image-Centered Clinical Reference

Visual signs and the general practitioner
Art Papier, M.D., Physicians and Computers, January 2001, Vol18, No 5, pp1-4.

2000

The Doctor is in the House

It just may be the ultimate in house calls: Technology that will let us take our own physicals at home.
Gunjan Sinha, Popular Science, July 2000, pp 51-54.

Les Docteurs Gadgets Sont Nes Aux Etats-Unis

Impact Medecin Hebdo, January 14, 2000, pp 68-73.

UR gets $1 Million to Develop Devices for Home Health Care

The University of Rochester's Center for Future Health has received a $1 million foundation award to support work on new technology that people can use in their homes to maintain health.
Michael Wentzel, Democrat and Chronicle, January 8, 2000.