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Severe back pain limited Joe Dorman’s active lifestyle. He couldn’t walk for 30 feet without intense pain.

Now, he’s riding his bicycle again and getting ready to play golf.

Richard Burg, M.D., determined the cause and utilized minimally invasive technology at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Allen to perform a disk fusion through a small incision in Dorman’s side.

He then used very small incisions in the patient’s back to insert screws and rods to complete the procedure.

Dorman says the healing time is faster, and the recovery time after the surgery and through the rehabilitation process is extremely quick with a minimally invasive procedure.

Back surgery is just one of the many minimally invasive procedures available in the hospitals of Texas Health Resources.

EMR and HIPAA Interviews a member of ONC about NHIN and CONNECT at HIMSS

Advanced telecom application for assisting hospitals and clinics in their ability to locate nurses and assign them to work duties

The Future of Wireless International Conference, a two day
high-profile event to be held in Cambridge on 29th & 30th June 2010,
brings together from around the world more than 300 key players,
including business leaders, entrepreneurs, technologists, investors
and academics, to explore the key market, business and technology
opportunities for wireless – and it’s potential impact on society -
over the next five years. The breadth of topics to be covered is
impressive, including such matters as re-inventing business models and
the value chain, bridging the digital divide, wireless delivery of
healthcare, low-carbon smart homes, future wireless devices and the
impact of cloud computing on life in the 21st Century. As well as
informative presentations, there will also be lively,
thought-provoking panel discussions and plenty of opportunities for
attendees to engage and participate. The Cambridge Wireless free
online partnering service enables delegates to maximise business
development and partnering opportunities by facilitating
pre-arrangement of meetings with other delegates.
For more information read the full news release here:
http://www.neondrum.com/public/public_release.php?id=291

Liza Sisler of Perficient, Inc. interviews Tom Mackey, Chair of Microsoft’s Health Users Group and CIO of Aultman Health Foundation. Tom gives his impressions of the HIMSS 2010 conference in Atlanta, GA. He mentions a company called Health Language and also notes that Microsoft’s HealthVault Community Connect announcement, made during HIMSS, has significant impact on the industry.

Submitted by guest writer: Carmen R. Gonzalez

While there have been online seminars for quite awhile, there is a new breed of digital coalescence taking shape on social media portals which is changing the way health care professionals interact and share their knowledge. Several new groups in the health care sector are cropping up to create cyber forums specifically geared to reach their social media networks. Twitter has been the main platform for this new generation of health care organizing and appears to be a harbinger of things to come.

Every Sunday evening at 9pm EST, Twitter becomes an active hub for a health-centered collective of physicians, patients, students, marketers, and researchers known as Healthcare Communications and Social Media Forum, or #HCSM for short. Its moderator, Dana M. Lewis (@danamlewis), described its early beginnings in January 2009 as stemming from a brief online discussion with Dan Fuoco and Arik Hanson. Lewis, a senior at the University of Alabama and social media manager for the school’s newspaper, The Crimson White, was intrigued by the health communications practices being conducted at the Detroit Medical Center.  The three agreed to broaden the discussion on GChat and with four initial participants—the fourth being Kathryn Armstrong—the first Healthcare Communications and Social Media Chat was born. The group then decided to take its discussion on social media use at hospitals and patient healthcare issues to a wider audience of stakeholders on Twitter, spurring the creation of @healthsocmed and healthsocmed.com.

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Allscripts CEO Glen Tullman speaks on Fox Business regarding healthcare information technology and healthcare reform.