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Archives for October, 2009

THERE HAS BEEN A DISTURBANCE ON THE SURFACE OF MARS!!

No radio show has ever effected the public like the H.G.Wells "War of the Worlds". This radio show caused riots and panic all across the Eastern US. A powerful reminder of what "classic [+]

HealthCampNYC and Participatory Health Care

HealthCampNYC takes place on Saturday November 7th at the Teacher's College, columbia, New York, NY. This is part of the HealthCamp Network of Un-Conferences that discusses Participatory HealthCare and the use of Social Media, Open [+]

US Government: Healthcare Cost Containment

Riley, M. http://medicalstudentblog.co.uk One of the most important social and political topics of the current environment is healthcare. Skyrocketing costs as well as an aging baby boomer population have driven concerns, especially within the [+]

Promising new Health IT innovation to find the lost

Less than two weeks old, EmFinders has launched a promising new technology to help find patients with Alzheimers, Autism, or other mental impairments that might be in danger if they wander away from caregivers. Based on [+]

Healthcare Challenges due to Financial Mechanism Changes

Guest Author: Riley, Michelle http://medicalstudentblog.co.uk Due to significant changes in the mechanisms of financing, the entire healthcare system now faces significant challenges. The three most significant challenges are: the ability to service and fund public programs such as [+]

Green Healthcare, how can we help save the world?

Leanne Kaiser Carlson from the Estes Park Institute discusses several places healthcare can advance the "green" causes to help conserve resource and fight global pollution and climate change. [+]

SISCOM, advanced imaging, at Mayo Clinic

Dr. Gregory Cascino, a Mayo Clinic neurologist and epileptologist, describes SISCOM an advanced imaging technology developed at Mayo Clinic. SISCOM precisely pinpoints seizure hot spots in patients with epilepsy, allowing specialists to determine the most [+]

Severalls Hospital in the UK needs some serious help and TLC

Colchester Severalls Derelict Hospital is in some desperate need of resurrection.  It is sad to see a facility like this be so run down.  If any UK folks are reading today, could you expand on [+]

CIO Kara Marx interviews for HealthTechnica on MedPlus

Kara Marx, CIO of the 460 bed Methodist Hospital serving the San Gabriel valley in California, recently took time out of her busy schedule to talk with HealthTechnica about her organization's new MedPlus implementations. Methodist Hospital [+]

Needs-Driven and Evidence-Based Point-of-Care Technology Development

Mr. Daniel Mecozzi, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, UC Davis, focuses on the use of needs assessment surveys as an evidence based approach to designing technology at the point-of-care. This lecture provides a brief overview of [+]

Biometric Technology Now at African Hospital

Bwindi Community Hospital provides health care to some of the poorest people in the world, most of which are afflicted with devastating diseases such as malaria, tuberculosis, HIV/AIDS, and diarrhea, which are considered the biggest [+]

You made it possible!! 1,000 Health Care Professionals have signed up!

On May 23, 2009 HealthTechnica launched the Health Care Professional's Social Media List. Through the help of many people on Twitter, Facebook, and other social media outlets we have been able to gather the [+]

eHealth Innovation Competition 2009 Competition Question

Agfa Healthcare is sponsoring a competition in 2009 for innovative eHealth ideas: [+]

HealthTechnica goes Mobile

HealthTechnica.com is now available on mobile browsers.  iPhones, Blackberry, and all popular mobile browsers can now access the compatible version of  HealthTechnica web page. [+]

Being negative is easy. There will always be a downside to everything good

"Being negative is easy. There will always be a downside to everything good, a hurdle to everything desirable, a con to every pro. The real courage is in finding the good in what you have, [+]

HeartMath: A Value-Driven Approach to Some of Healthcare’s Toughest Challenges

HeartMath is a finalist for the 2009 ABBY award. The ABBY award is given each year by Adaptive Business Leaders (ABL). ABL members share with each other proven and innovative approaches for growing their businesses. [+]

23rd Annual Rural Health Care Leadership Conference

I have never been to this conference, but I have wanted to go.  If you are attending, make sure to TweetUP! The conference is in Pheonix in February.  This is what you can expect to learn [+]

Train your CIO like a caregiver

For those of you that follow me on twitter, you know that I have been attending physician, pharmacy, medical revenue, inpatient nursing, and outpatient nursing EMR trainings over the past month. My IT colleges [+]

The EHR Institute asks Dr. Micheal Brooks from Brighton Hospital

What do you think about the role of technology in managing your business? [+]

Australian National health system to go online

For much of the past decade, various Australian federal and state health authorities have been working towards a national, super-connected health system; and it's supposed to be finalised within the next three years. The new, [+]

A step forward for patient security in Europe

For every physician and patient, reduction of medical error is a priority issue. 10% of diagnoses and prescriptions are estimated to be flawed. Similarly, it is important to prevent data mis-transmission as well as to [+]

What Is Biomedicine for Autism?

Dr. Kurt Woeller describes what exactly is "Biomedicine for Autism" and what it means to pursue a biomedical approach for an individual on the autism spectrum. Medical diagnostic assessment is important to understand various biochemical [+]

Does your health plan cover “Mummy MRI”?

Radiologists at Mt. Sinai Medical Center in Aventura used modern medical technology to help unravel an ancient mummy mystery from Egypt. I just want to know if Blue Cross will cover mummification :-D [+]

Our Project Manager can’t handle a one man, stand still parade!

This has to be the best line I have heard about a project manager in a long time "our project manager can't handle a one man, stand still parade!!".  A lot of frustration went into [+]

Social Media Revolution

Take notice, the health care industry is not immune to this revolution. In fact, we are likely to have to propel it forward. Cases in point: Ed Bennett and Found In Cache and Health Care Professional's Social [+]
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