Archive for March, 2009

Robot Nurses in Homes Within Five Years

Posted by Shawn Riley in Tuesday, March 31st 2009   
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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

Posted by Shawn Riley in Tuesday, March 31st 2009   
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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…

Posted by Shawn Riley in Saturday, March 28th 2009   
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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 is very unique and has to taper each one of these systems specifically to our industry.  How is your organization [...]

HIMSS09 – going? What are you looking for?

Posted by Shawn Riley in Saturday, March 28th 2009   
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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

Posted by Shawn Riley in Saturday, March 28th 2009   
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German based Fraunhofer creates a fiber-glass guidewire

Posted by Shawn Riley in Saturday, March 28th 2009   
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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 expanded daignostic imaging with MRI and other systems.
Fraunhofer’s Press Release

Senator Sanders rants about lack of health care for middle class

Posted by Shawn Riley in Friday, March 27th 2009   
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Billions…even TRILLIONS for the banks…but where is health care?  This is what senator Sanders wants to know…

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