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Archives for November, 2010

The Tech Awards 2010: Nokia Health Award

Technology is in the process of revolutionizing health care, from improving the quality of life for those with disabilities to eradicating deadly diseases. Biotechnology discoveries, enhanced imaging, and incredible new surgical procedures [+]

How E-Health Can Affect Quality in Clinical Setting

Even though e-Health has been around for many years, it can be called a relatively new concept. Earlier, e-health services were unorganized and were in nascent stage due to lack of big [+]

What are these pills anyway?

The National Institute of Health has put together a Beta website http://pillbox.nlm.nih.gov/ to help patients identify the drugs in the cabinet. The website is Flash driven and is very easy to use.  Simply click the characteristics [+]

#BlackFriday @HealthTechnica Read our aritcles with your left eye and read with right eye for FREE!

Some top articles for Black Friday: Technology Innovations for Under-Served and Under-Privileged Patients Medical Research in China What to look for in a Chief Medical Information Officer The benefits of E-prescribing for today's physician 101 Tips to make your EMR [+]

From the cast of Dr. Mike, HAPPY THANKSGIVING

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!! Not familiar with Dr. Mike's team?  See his team start using the iPad for clinical practice, or see them meet the Old Spice Man, or the Flying Spaghetti Monster, or see a data center [+]

Shortlist announced for the UKTI Business Innovation Awards 2010

The prestigious Business Innovation Awards 2010, which showcases the very best of UK innovation in science and technology, has announced the nine companies shortlisted for its three award categories – emerging &nano technology, energy & environment, and digital connected [+]

A 21st Century Infection Control Technology

The following video is a very interesting infection control technology from Zimek.  I would be very interested in knowing if any of our readers are using Zimek.  Please comment and let us know. This video is [+]

Mayo Clinic partners with Intel to study football player hits

Key to Intel’s efforts is a collaboration with Mayo Clinic. The non-profit hospital and research group based in Rochester, Minnesota, is helping Intel develop technology that can more rapidly crunch data from brain [+]

Technology Innovations for Under-Served and Under-Privileged Patients

There is an ever increasing disease-burden gap between developing and developed countries. Consequently, people involved in health care industry are thinking of ways to develop and implement effective healthcare technologies to [+]

Plextek’s image processing enhancements help medical applications exploit HD

Cambridge, UK, 23rd November 2010: Plextek, the Cambridge-based electronics and communications design consultancy, today announced enhancements to its image processing suite designed to help medical device manufacturers overcome the technical challenges involved in developing mega-pixel video solutions for medical applications. [+]

Quality of care in Minnesota is all over the map

Minnesota's core newspaper, the Star Tribune, has released a report showing that quality of care is all over the place: The report turned up some glaring gaps in the way different clinics follow what experts [+]

Health 2.0 announces Spring Conferences

Health 2.0 Spring Fling conference will be held in San Diego on March 21-22. This event will focus on three themes where Health 2.0 can make a big difference: making health care cheaper; [+]

Helping Physicians become great managers and leaders

"Helping Physicians Become Great Managers and Leaders" is a new book by Laura Avakian.  Her book helps to strengthen the skill sets of the administrators and leaders to interact with physicians. A guide that will increase [+]

New assisted living technology network targets £1.5billion UK market

The Assisted Living Action Network has been launched to bring together business, healthcare professionals, service user groups and academic researchers to looking to target the £1.5billion UK market for products and services to support the aging population. The network [+]

LifeBot® Signs Ambulance EMS Telemedicine Technologies Developed with U.S. Army

LifeBot, LLC acted today to expand its technology position in emergency telemedicine communications. Combining DREAMStm with LifeBot® patented technologies promises to make available the most powerful and advanced prehospital EMS communications systems. Considered by many [+]

Finalists announced in the e-Government National Awards 2010

The finalists have been chosen in this year’s e-Government National Awards. The UK’s most closely watched public sector technology awards, supported by the Prime Minister David Cameron, recognise excellence and innovation in digital initiatives in national and local government, [+]

Medical Research in China

The industry of medical research in China includes many facets. The participants range from large establishments (concerned with basic research), military hospitals undertaking applied research and development and pharmaceutical companies making [+]

Systems, processes and human factor considerations in hospital design

Thoughtful, intelligent and sometimes surprisingly simple evidence-based design is a source of growing attention when it comes to health innovation. A panel of designers and planners speaks about what dilemmas they face and why all [+]

The Values, And Pitfalls, of Health Information Exchanges

A Health information exchange (HIE) is defined as the transmission of healthcare information electronically across organizations within a community. HIE is an integral part of the health information technology (HIT) and [+]

Research for the Future of Health Design

Thoughtful, intelligent and sometimes surprisingly simple evidence-based design is a source of growing attention when it comes to health innovation. A panel of designers and planners speaks about what dilemmas they face [+]

Health Innovation for an Aging Society

Omar Ishrak, president and CEO of GE Healthcare Systems, puts this week's announcement of a joint venture between Intel and GE into context. [+]

What to look for in a Chief Medical Information Officer

The Health information technology promises tremendous benefits for both the patient and the health care provider organization. These technologies offer improved quality of patient care and patient safety. But health care provider organizations may resist [+]

The New Key Players in Imaging Innovation

Brian Maher, Consultant for the Advisory Board Company's Technology Insights division, examines the shift in focus of innovation for imaging technology—from multi-figure standalone modalities to upgrades and productivity enhancements to existing technologies—and [+]

The Benefits of E-prescribing for Today’s Physician

Overview: E-prescribing refers to an emerging solution that improves patient safety and helps reduce rising healthcare costs as well. According to a study, more than 7,000 people die in US due to wrong [+]

Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world

"Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world." - Albert Einstein This quote comes from HeartMath.  HeartMath is a great stress management tool built around simply thinking differently about stressful situations. [+]
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