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Archives for October, 2009

Cool Cap Technology at Phoenix Children’s Hospital

Cooling the brain of an infant that has experienced birth hypoxia (lack of oxygen) helps the brain recover from injury. Infants suffering a lack of oxygen who receive cool cap therapy have a greater [+]

Health Care Over Broadband Saves Lives and Money

The Brookings Institute discusses the nature and need of Telemedicine around the world. Telemedicine combines cutting edge technology with advanced medicine to improve patient care and cut costs. [+]

Microsoft Europe talks eHealth

Microsoft Europe is keying in with their own perspectives of eHealth eHealth is key to better patient care. Here are the basics, as described by a series of experts. Filmed at an event hosted by Microsoft [+]

Evolution of the American Healthcare Industry

Riley, M. http://medicalstudentblog.co.uk To better understand the current healthcare setting and the future development of the constantly evolving system, it is important to understand the historical evolution. By looking at the factors that contributed to the [+]

Health Information Technology Forum… I need your input!!

HealthTechnica is currently building a forum for Health Information Technology, Clinical providers, and all other allied staff to talk about the world of HIT. What would you like to see? What are the main topic [+]

Medical E-Commerce

via MMR of http://medicalstudentblog.co.uk Legal territory is expanded daily through the technological advancements; specifically within the medical world. As more clinics move to paperless client records and use digital mediums to gather research, collect patient histories, [+]

Methodist Hospital Adopts New Technology Solutions to Improve Care for California Patients

Methodist Hospital of Arcadia, California, has launched an integrated deployment of innovative health care information technology (HIT) solutions designed to help improve the quality of patient care and deliver operational efficiencies. MedPlus®, the health care [+]

Microsoft and Emory Univ collaborate on H1N1 Response Center

Microsoft and Emory University launched a new website Tuesday with the purpose of enabling patients and creating an intersection of health care and technology during the H1N1 crisis. I was one of ten health technology bloggers [+]

TeleAudiology from South Africa to Dallas Texas

After receiving a hearing test through telemedicine a patient in Pretoria South Africa is counselled regarding his hearing loss by an Audiologist from Dallas, Texas. [+]

Healthcare CFO Perspectives, driving savings with technology Part 5

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Healthcare CFO Perspectives, driving savings with technology Part 4

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Healthcare CFO Perspectives, driving savings with technology Part 3

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Healthcare CFO Perspectives, driving savings with technology Part 2

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Healthcare CFO Perspectives, driving savings with technology Part 1

UPMC's CFO (Rob DeMichiei) talks about how UPMC leveraged technology to drive savings and efficiency in their $1.8b supply chain operation. [+]

Founder of the Center for Healthcare Transformation discusses patient flow

Newt Gingrich, founder of the Center for Healthcare Transformation, discusses the implications of a new enterprise technology, StatCom, in helping to improve healthcare delivery. "StatCom is a new hospital management technology that really improves the [+]

Health Technology is not a bed of roses

The Human Factors group of Canada has put together a short vid to show the ongoing frustration that many health care workers have with their technology today. The Human Factors group is dedicated to [+]

Medical Home Event in Minnesota

The Minnesota Department of health is putting on a "Health Care Homes" medical home event. October 26-29, 2009 Hospitals and Communities Moving Forward with Patient- and Family-Centered Care - An Intensive Training from the Institute [+]

Telehealth in the UK

Adrian Flowerday, Managing Director of Docobo Ltd is also the Chair of the Telehealth Group. This Group works to promote wider and larger procurements of assistive technologies (eg telehealth and telecare) in the [+]
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