Gentag has announced the first application of their near field communication (NFC) diagnostic platform: a cell phone based post-operative orthopedic surgery monitoring kit. 
The kit consists of a temperature and pressure measuring chip that communicates with NFC equipped cell phones. It can monitor swelling in the surgery area or inside casts to detect compartment syndrome after hospital discharge. It can also be used to do back pressure and bed sores monitoring. The technology is based on an ultra-linear NFC-MEMS hybrid chip with 1mm mercury (Hg) precision and 0.1 C temperature accuracy. The technology will be compatible with Google, BlackBerry, Nokia, Samsung and other brand cell phones integrating the NFC chip, and can also be bundled with cheap NFC cell phones (e.g. Gentag’s GT-601) to make low cost hospital discharge wireless monitoring kits. For now the technology is available for limited post orthopedic surgery trials, but commercial launch is expected in 2012, starting first with pressure monitoring in casts.
Press release: First Cell Phone Based Post-Operative Orthopedics Surgery Monitoring Kit Announced by GENTAG, Inc. and The CORE Institute…
More info: Gentag Technology…