Dartmouth's 'magic wand' pairs medical devices to Wi-Fi

Doctors could keep better tabs on their patients between visits with a simple wave of a magic wand-like device being developed at Dartmouth College. "In a hospital you tend to have trained people who can configure medical devices, and set them up and monitor them to make sure they're working," creator Tim Pierson said. "If we're going to move into a world where sensors are outside of the hospital, we started wondering what are the challenges to configuring these devices in the home where there is no IT team, or in a small clinic with a couple of doctors and nurses?"