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2013 CES sports some cool new health tech

Self empowerment, self care, and remote care all hit the CES (Computer Electronics Show - one of the largest gadget get togethers on Earth) this 2013.  Remote physician kiosks hit the top of my list [+]

Optum, Mayo Clinic Partner to Launch Optum Labs: An Open, Collaborative Research and Innovation Facility Focused on Better Care for Patients

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., and ROCHESTER, Minn., Jan. 15, 2013 -- Optum and Mayo Clinic today jointly launched Optum Labs, an open, collaborative research and development facility with a singular goal: improving patient care. Based in Cambridge, [+]

New technologies for the hearing impaired

The folks who are hearing impaired are already suffering from a handicap. To add salt to injury; comes in the difficulty experienced in recognizing and interpreting what other people are trying to communicate to them. [+]

Monitor your blood sugar via a contact lense!

Microsoft Health has a very innovative idea, quit sticking your finger to get a blood sugar reading.  In this cross between really terrifying and just drop your pants cool, Microsoft is working on a contact [+]

Ireland has some great ideas on improving health through technology

Ireland, homeland of my last name, has some great ideas to improve health technology.  The following three videos are from the "big ideas" showcase 2011.  First up, Dr. Padraig McAuliffe, with a splint for your teeth.  [+]

Health Technologies of Brazil

Brazil is a nation that is quite focused on improving its health technology facilities. Despite the fact that many of the people around the world only recognize Brazil for its contribution to soccer or its [+]

Real-Time Physiological Patient Data Provider Isansys

 Isansys Lifecare Limited, the provider of complete real-time physiological patient data services and systems, today announces the opening of Isansys Lifecare Systems Pvt Ltd., a new venture that offers access to Isansys’ real-time vital signs data solutions to the [+]

What if you had a scanner that could detect pain in a patient? That tech is here!

    Today's pain meter is a very "rub the belly, pat the head" type of meter.  We ask the patient on a scale of 1-10, how much pain do you have?  This type of pain meter [+]

Imprivata and PhoneFactor Partner to Provide Caregivers Access to Protected Health Information

Imprivata®, Inc., and PhoneFactor today announced a reseller partnership to provide phone-based authentication services to Imprivata customers. The partnership builds upon existing technology integration between the two platforms, creating a joint solution that is offered [+]

Qualcomm Wireless Health Challenge is quite cool

Qualcomm has started a wireless health challenge that makes you wonder how other non-medical organizations are engaging their staff in health.  I like the scale they are using.  I use it myself.  This video marks [+]

Curaspan Health Group® Unveils DischargeCentral®, the New-and-Improved eDischarge™ Software-as-a-Service Application

Curaspan Health Group (www.curaspan.com), the company that transformed discharge planning more than 10 years ago with the industry-leading eDischarge application, today introduced another innovation: DischargeCentral. The new DischargeCentral software-as-a-service (SaaS) application combines the ease of [+]

Microsoft Windows 8 is going to put the iPad on its heals

The iPad has opened a lot of eyes in medical world towards the advantages of point of care technology. Quick and nimble, the iPad has been a great opening tool for many physicians. [+]

Major Health Innovations in Australia

Australia has been popularly known as a country that is said to be an emerging giant in terms of economy and commerce. It is also a major provider of jobs and home to various industrial [+]

New Test Spots Infections in Hours, Rather than Days

A startup called T2 Biosystems is developing a test that uses magnetic nanoparticles to detect blood-borne infections in hours—compared to the days it now takes using conventional lab methods. The company's first device—about the size [+]

Phrazer Honored Alongside Apple iPad, Chevrolet Volt as a 2011 Best New Product

Phrazer™ was honored with a Gold award in the internationally renowned Edison Best New Product Awards™ competition last night.  The Edison Awards is a yearly competition honoring innovation and excellence in the development, marketing [+]

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 [+]

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. [+]

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 [+]

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. [+]

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 [+]

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 [+]
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