MEDICAL, FITNESS AND HEALTHCARE SOLUTIONS
The spectrum of healthcare and medical technology
Embedded Intel® technology can be found inside everything from computerized fitness equipment to lifesaving medical monitoring devices. Practitioners rely on these systems to administer proactive care including exercise and fitness programs, as well as point-of-care diagnostics, treatment and record-keeping. Solutions are varied and include:
- Gym and fitness equipment, such as treadmills
- Point-of-care and bedside monitoring terminals
- Electronic medical records
- Portable diagnostic systems (EKG, ultrasound, PET scanners, etc.)
- High-end imaging systems (MRI, ultrasound, CT scanner, etc.)
Medical technology with Intel Inside
Using Intel® processors in proactive care, medical, and healthcare technology solutions enables development of a common hardware platform for multiple medical devices and applications. The result is a family of complex solutions that integrate and connect seamlessly across the practice of medicine. Solutions include:
- Small, battery-powered portable devices with high-end graphics
- 3-D and 4-D imaging systems
- Monitoring devices that track multiple parameters in real time
- Highly integrated systems that support complex diagnostic and analysis applications
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Documentation
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Case Study: Getting Pumped Up with a Digital Trainer
With the power of Intel® multi-core, healthclub members get custom training and coaching in real-time with digital technology that understands their fitness level and state-of-mind.
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Case Study: Intel® Embedded Products Creating the Future in Fitness
Intel® architecture delivers media-rich user experiences, reduces development time and costs, enables remote manageability, and provides performance.
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Solution Brief: Automated Strength Trainers Put Global Wellness Within Reach
With an automated exercise machine powered by Intel® micro-architecture, people can get custom-designed programs to meet personal training needs, with coaching and immediate feedback.
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Video: Fitness Center of the Future
Intel® embedded products enable high-tech fitness centers with intelligent and internet connected equipment.
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Video: Gym of the Future
Intel is working with industry leaders in fitness, and health management to envision the health club of the future. Take a look at what’s coming.
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Video: High Tech Workout
Computerized connected workout equipment based on Intel® technology allows Intel employees to personalize their workout routines for optimum health.
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Video: MayaFit Digital Fitness Trainer From Respondesign*
MayaFit is the world's first digital fitness trainer, delivering the benefits of a personal trainer to every person in a fitness center.
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Video: Proactive Health and Fitness Equipments
Learn more about the intelligent fitness solutions based on Intel® Atom™ platform and how it is changing the way you work out in gym.
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Video: Technology Transforms the Gym
Faster, smaller, more energy-efficient technology is transforming the way we stay fit with sophisticated connected workout and training equipment.
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Application Note: Home Health Gateway based on the Intel® Atom™ Processor
Gateway demo illustrates how to address design challenges and satisfy key end user requirements.
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Article: Electronic Design Magazine*: Architecting New Dimensions of Medical Imaging
Medical imagine requires silicon architecture scalable across a variety of performance and power ranging from high-end CT equipment down to portable ultrasound products.
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Case Study: A Good IT Helper for Rural Doctors
Intel and Haoyisheng* Doki* Series of Medical Information products support rural health undertaking in China.
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Case Study: Advantech* and LiDCO* Cardiac Sensor Systems Advanced Cardiovascular Monitoring System
Intel® embedded processors enable a comprehensive range of medical point of care terminals.
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Case Study: Advantech* Move More Technology to Point of Care
Intel® Embedded products provide the optimum combination of high performance at the lowest possible power consumption needed for medical observation, diagnosis, and treatment devices.
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Case Study: Bringing Quality Health Care to the Workplace and Retail Environment
Empowering consumers and employees to take charge of their own wellness with health screening kiosks based on Intel® processors.
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Case Study: Increasing the Performance of Ultrasound Breast Cancer Diagnosis
Enabling physicians to improve breast cancer diagnoses in real-time with Intel® Core™ i7 processors.
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Case Study: Intel® Technology Helps Medical Specialists More Quickly Reach-and Treat-Patients in Remote Areas
This case study describes the technologies used in telemedicine and how Medicina a Distancia* advances the treatment of patients in remote areas.
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Case Study: Jaotech* Healthcare Integrates Point-of-Care Clinical Information and Patient Entertainment
Long life support, hardware and software compatibility, and low power embedded processors power smart medical terminals.
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Case Study: Kontron* Delivers Performance for 3D Medical Imaging
Kontron* single-board computers using Intel® Xeon® Core™ processors enable 3D ultrasound breast imaging systems.
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Case Study: Kshema* Enables Quality Healthcare to All
Kshema* use Intel® embedded processors to design a ruggedized device for remote diagnostics and consultions for patients in remote locations.
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Case Study: Optimized Data Reduces Healthcare Costs
MedeAnalytics* delivers performance with IBM servers using the Intel® Xeon® 5600 series processor.
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Case Study: RadiSys* Delivers High-Performance Embedded Systems for Medical Imaging
Embedded compute modules based on Intel® Core™ processors enable higher quality medical imaging systems at reduced cost.
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Product Brief: Intel® Xeon® Processors Drive Faster Performance for Medical Image Processing
Intel® Xeon™ processors enhance medical imaging with sophisticated image processing algorithms, for better image quality at lower patient radiation doses.
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Solution Brief: Advantages of Scalable Architectures for Medical Devices
The cost-effective Intel® Medical Evaluation Kit with Continua Certified* Software Stack provides medical device developers tools to design products on scalable Intel® Architecture.
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Solution Brief: Intel® Product Technologies Boost Reliability, Manageability and Security for Medical Equipment
Virtualization, Intel® AMT and TXT ensure software runs in a stable and reliable environment to maintain peak patient throughput levels.
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Solution Brief: Omnicell* Mobile Medication Systems* Provide Safe and Secure Medication Dispensing
Omnicell* enhances medical distribution with automated dispensing systems built using Intel® ™ processors.
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Solution Brief: Remote Management in Healthcare Settings
Intel® embedded products provide the key to substantial cost reduction—remote management of IT across the healthcare enterprise.
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Solution Brief: Unifying Device Management and Cyber Security in the Connected Hospital
Learn how new technologies help healthcare organizations manage medical device and prescription disbursement with less effort, reducing costs, while securing patient data more effectively.
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Technology Brief: Intel® Product Technologies Enable Scalable Medical Devices
Platform technologies such as virtualization, active management, and trusted execution enhance security, manageability, and reliability in medical devices.
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Video: Building Intelligent Connected Systems
See how Intel makes digital signage, energy, in-vehicle, medical, retail and other systems Intelligent and Connected.
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Video: Cloud Based Medical Images Archive Solution
David Zirl, healthcare solution strategist at Dell* presents cloud based health care data management and archive solution.
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Video: Full Virtualization for Wireless Applications
Intel® architecture with Linux* and Windows* provides wireless critical-business applications the data acquisition and transfer capabilities needed simultaneously, with minimal core usage.
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Video: Healthcare IT Perspectives Latest Addition
This video talks about the latest developments in Healthcare IT. Learn about Regional Extension Centers, e-Prescribing, and securing remote access to patient data via cloud.
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Video: Planning for Embedded Healthcare Systems by Gail Wilensky, Economist & Senior Fellow, Project HOPE
Gail Wilensky discusses the importance of developing strategies to slow the cost of medical spending while improving the quality of health care through availability of remote information sharing. She talks about the high sensitivity for privacy and security and the importance of interoperability between smart devices.
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Video: Real-time Video Analytics and Sophisticated Medical Imaging
Software for Intel Embedded platforms provide scalability from Intel® Atom™ to Intel® Xeon® processors for medical applications
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Video: Smart Bedside Terminals
This video introduces the concept of the Smart Bedside Terminal as a part of the Connected Hospital.
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Video: The Connected Hospital
As the complexity and number of connected devices within the clinical environment increases, so do the challenges associated with integrating, managing and securing them.
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Video: The Future of Medical Technology
Intel Medical Market Manager Alex Zilberman explains embedded healthcare medical equipment and how Intel is improving device functionality.
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Video: Transforming Healthcare With Technology
Intel and JAOtech* change healthcare with innovative communication and information access.
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Video: Wireless Medicine—The Promise of Smart Devices by Dr. Eric Topol, West Wireless Health Institute
Dr. Topol talks about the promise of wireless medical technology and how the smart device capability will improve healthcare and reduce costs.
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White Paper: Bringing Medical Imaging to Life
Intel® multi-core and virtualization technologies meet the 4-D real-time imaging requirements such as high bandwidth and compute capacity.
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White Paper: Expanding Health IT Capabilities and Reducing Costs Using Intel® Xeon® Active Management Technology
Intel® Xeon® AMT enhances the ability of health IT to remotely monitor, maintain and repair medical devices.
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White Paper: Increasing Medical Device Security with Mainstream IT Platforms and Technologies
See how a layered security approach can improve protection and ease the burden on Healthcare IT.
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White Paper: Intel® Embedded Products Enable Game-Changing Performance for Medical Devices
Ultra-low-power, multi-core, virtualization, and scalability improve performance for medical devices.
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White Paper: Jaotech* Healthcare Integrates Point-of-Care Clinical Information and Patient Entertainment
Review of application for medical terminals including infrastructure requirements and Intel® Xeon® embedded products.
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White Paper: New Levels of CT Image Performance and New Levels in Radiation Dose Management
GE* and Intel engineers teamed up to reduce MBIR processing time using the Intel® Xeon™ processor.
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White Paper: Optimizing Embedded System
Performance—Impact of Data Prefetching on a Medical Imaging Application
Examine the impact of hardware and software data prefetching on the AMIDE* medical imaging application running on Intel® dual-core processors.
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White Paper: Small Form Factor Computer Applications
Multi-core performance and virtualization technology drive reduction in form factor for embedded applications, such as medical.
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White Paper: When a Virtualized Medical Device Makes Sense
Medical device developers can gain system and resource advantages with virtualization, by enhancing compliance and quality assurance while reducing product development effort and system costs.
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Reference Designs
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Reference Design: Wireless PAN Implementation in a Fully Virtualized Environment
Embedded Intel technology is forever changing the practice of medicine with industry leading performance, power efficiency and a complete array of advanced, hardware-based technologies.
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Reference Design: Home Health Reference Platform
The low-power and small form factor design of the Intel® Atom™ E6xx processor enables OEMs and system integrators to create platforms designed for integration within the home.
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Evaluation Kit with IEEE 11073 Continua* Certified Software Stack for Medical Applications
Evaluation kit for medical devices based on the Intel® Embedded Development Board 1-N450
Connected Hospital
Intel® architecture enables the performance, portability, scalability, and integration required for future healthcare solutions.




