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Archives for March, 2011

Medical Device Innovation: Bioprinting

  I bet you don't spend too much time thinking about the wonders of your printer. Naturally, I can't say I ever really had either. Its one of those marvelous machines that seems to simply function [+]

Institute for Health Technology

The most controversial moment of the Institute for Health Technology Transformation conference on Aging & Wellness in San Francisco, 3/23/11. Stanford healthy psychologist Kelly McGonigal answers the question, "What is the biggest myth about health [+]

How to Use Technology & Social Media for Your Health

This is Part 1 in a 2-Part Episode about Technology and Health Care Social Media. By analyzing Lists and citing Specific Examples of what is currently available, the result is the formation of a Health [+]

Medical Students Pay Close Attention: Will Rogers at Work

Old school "horse sense" vs. The latest medical/scientific technology...80 years ago, but the spirit is the same. Will Rogers and his old aunt show there is more to doctorin' than textbooks and laboratories. You can actually [+]

The Impact of Wireless Technology on Healthcare Quality Improvement

Wireless technology in support of Clinical Information Systems provides an indispensable service to healthcare delivery. Data shows that the need for these systems is growing to meet technological and workload demands. Additionally, wireless technology provides [+]

You need to take 15 seconds for a smile

If this picture doesn't make you smile, I don't know what will. [caption id="attachment_3858" align="aligncenter" width="504" caption="My children have aquired a new bunny rabbit. They named this 'mini-rex' breed bunny "Oreo""][/caption] [+]

How Quick Response codes can help pharma engage with patients

QR codes skirt the entry limitations; patients can interact with chosen information at their own pace. For this reason, pharma companies should aim to have specific QR codes for each product imprinted on prescription bottles, boxes, [+]

3D Technology and Eye Health

The American Optometric Association (AOA) and its 36,000 members today announced its partnership with the 3D@Home Consortium, a group of more than 45 companies, to improve the understanding of 3D/S3D viewing as a [+]

TMobile USA Powers Worlds First Multilingual Medical Communication System

GeaCom, Inc. announced today that its handheld interactive multilingual medical communication system, called Phrazer, will be powered by the robust network of T-Mobile USA, Inc.  The first system of its kind in the world, Phrazer [+]

Medical Device Innovation: Pocket Ultra Sound

If you've ever had an Ultrasound then you've probably got a pretty good image in your head of what the average Ultrasound machine looks like. You might be picturing a computer screen. [+]

Pharma Experts Provide Information at DIA EuroMeeting

At the DIA EuroMeeting (booth 1042), Across Systems GmbH will show how pharmaceutical companies can master current challenges with the support of language technologies and generate added value. Across will demonstrate how documents on pharmaceutical products can be handled [+]

Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia – Best Practices in Network Automation

Infoblox invites you to join an upcoming live presentation hosted by Network World, and presented by Infoblox customer Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia on March 9th at 2 PM ET. In this presentation, entitled “How Automation [+]

Palo Alto Launches Award-Winning Online and Mobile Teen Health Program

How do you motivate teenagers to develop good habits that will keep them healthy their whole life long? Use their favorite communications method to motivate them – a cell phone! That’s why the [+]

State-of-the-Art Technology Use at Hadassah Hospital in Jerusalem

Hadassah Hospital in Jerusalem, Israel uses the world's leading technology and medical machinery to outfit their state-of-the-art facility. Take a tour of their new hybrid operating rooms with Professor Avraham I. Rivkind, [+]

Lung Cancer Patients Gain Significant Hope

Lung cancer patients with poor lung function are not good candidates for traditional surgical treatments. Innovations in medical technology, such as brachytherapy, CyberKnife and da Vinci robotic surgery, are now presenting significant [+]

7 Clinic Safety Technologies that you should know

The integrity of the clinical technology ensures a consistency in their systems and processes. Clinical data management serves to be the most important basic routine. So, there should be flexibility and focus [+]

Health 2.0: Combining Old Fashioned Medicine with New-Age Technology

For the Health 2.0 Conference in San Diego Heather Freudenthal was asked to produce a short video profiling a trailblazing doctor from Brooklyn, NY. Dr. Jay Parkinson is a young doctor living in the trendy [+]

CTO Doug McClure on the Technology behind Healthrageous

Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer Doug McClure talks about his background and the technology behind Healthrageous. [+]

Utah Beacon Community Improving Health Through Health Technology

Watch an overview of the Utah Beacon Community Program and learn what they are doing to improve care through health IT in Salt Lake City, UT. Stormy Sweitzer and Christie North from the Utah [+]

Phrazer multilingual device used to communicate with patients in rural Honduras

GeaCom team members accompanied Mayo Clinic medical students and physicians to rural Honduras to partake in a weeklong medical brigade from February 17-24, 2011. GeaCom staff used this opportunity to conduct a field trial of [+]

Maternal and Child Health Information and Technology Social Solutions

Allan Stamm, CEO of Go Beyond MCH, explains how he and his team apply the theory of "social networks" to effectively and efficiently create maternal, child and family health programs.   [+]

Most Wired Health Innovation Award is open and due soon

The Innovator Award is back! Is this your year to win it? Every day hospitals are applying technology in new and innovative ways, finding creative solutions that help serve their patients, staff [+]

Patients Seek Moral And Medical Support Online

NPR lays states that many patients are seeking more and more support online.  This is not a surprising trend for most of us, but I think this still feels like alien territory for many providers. After the diagnosis, [+]

Artificial Limbs and their advancements in the last 10 years

Artificial limbs or Prosthetics are an area of medical realm where artificial limbs are researched and developed. In the last 10 years, this field has advanced much and we have seen numerous [+]

Microsoft Innovations in Healthcare Technology

At HIMSS 2011 in Orlando, Florida, Perficient's Liza Sisler interviewed Dr. Ferdinand Velasco who is CMIO of Texas Health Resources. Dr. Velasco was energized by much of what he saw at HIMSS in Microsoft technology [+]
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