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Smart Med Alert sets a $150 up-front equipment fee for its medical alert devices, though the company runs sales that waive ...

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The Apple Watch offers many similar features to a medical alert system, but it lacks a dedicated monitoring center. Learn ...

Hamilton, Ontario-based McMaster University and Nashville, Tenn.-based Vanderbilt University researchers found changing the tune of hospital medical devices can improve patient and clinician ...

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Healthcare workers may fail to respond to medical alarms because they have trouble hearing them — the result of a phenomenon called simultaneous masking, according to a study published in Human ...

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I’ve been working with computers for ages, starting with a multi-year stint in purchasing for a major IBM reseller in New York City before eventually landing at PCMag (back when it was still in print ...