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Archives for March, 2009

Robot Nurses in Homes Within Five Years

Toshiba robot nurses could be in homes within five years!  Very interesting stuff.  This could be a very interesting adaption for managed care or the patient centered medical home. More details at JapanToday [+]

Excellent site for Hospitals trying to use social networking

http://ebennett.org/ is an excellent site for hospitals that are trying to emerge a social presence on the Internet.  This image is an example of from Ed's site: [+]

Studer Group, LEAN, Six-Sigma, and others…

Hospitals and medical centers across America are starting to engage ideas from other industries.  Concepts like LEAN, Studer, Six-Sigma, Baldrige, BPI, ITIL, ISO, and many others are evolving in health care.  The health care sector [+]

HIMSS09 – going? What are you looking for?

Heading to HIMSS09 in Chicago next week? If so, what are you looking for? What vendors peak your interest this year? Current events [+]

Complementary Cancer Care

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German based Fraunhofer creates a fiber-glass guidewire

The metal guidewire creates several problems for patients.  Whenever they have a catheter and require an internal diagnostic tests they have to be xrayed and use contrasting.  The new fiber glass guidewire will allow for [+]

Senator Sanders rants about lack of health care for middle class

Billions...even TRILLIONS for the banks...but where is health care?  This is what senator Sanders wants to know... [+]