{"id":28046,"date":"2011-09-04T01:16:22","date_gmt":"2011-09-04T01:16:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/no_more_wires_for_patients_epidermal_electronics-a_hot_new_trend_in_medici\/"},"modified":"2011-09-04T01:16:22","modified_gmt":"2011-09-04T01:16:22","slug":"no_more_wires_for_patients_epidermal_electronics-a_hot_new_trend_in_medici","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=28046","title":{"rendered":"No More Wires for Patients? Epidermal electronics&#8211;a Hot new Trend in Medicine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Confined to their hospital beds, patients can only fantasize about stripping off all the wires that connect them to monitors and bolting for the door.<\/p>\n<p>Suppose, however, that all of a convalescent patient\u2019s electrode patches were consolidated into a single, nearly invisible and weightless version \u201d\u201d as thin as a temporary, press-on tattoo. And suppose that a tiny radio transmitter eliminated the need for any wires tethering the patient to monitoring machines.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEpidermal electronics\u201d\u009d \u201d\u201d a term coined by researchers who have produced prototype devices at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign \u201d\u201d may enable constant medical monitoring anywhere.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/09\/04\/technology\/wireless-medical-monitoring-might-untether-patients.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Confined to their hospital beds, patients can only fantasize about stripping off all the wires that connect them to monitors and bolting for the door. Suppose, however, that all of a convalescent patient\u2019s electrode patches were consolidated into a single,<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=28046\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,149,104,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-economy","category-health-medicine","category-science-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28046\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}