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Access to Computing Resources Critical to Furthering Fight

The Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center can now provide employees with remote access to high-performance computing, data analysis, and administrative resources thanks to NoMachine software. NoMachine allows Center researchers to maintain rigorous research schedules, no matter where they are [+]

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 [+]

Shared Medical Appointments Help Promote Weight Loss

Palo-Alto Medical Foundation research shows a very interesting correlation between shared appointments and weight loss.  Apparently there is a better correlation between physical peer pressure than virtual peer pressure. In a specialized SMA designed for weight [+]

Medical Research in India

The Indian medical realm is currently witnessing an unprecedented growth in terms of facilities as well as research talent. In the past few years, the number of hospitals, medical infrastructure and skill [+]

GE releases an interesting look into research via toys

GE Global Research released a holiday game in December 2010 that invites players to become "toy engineers" and help Santa get ready for Christmas by pairing classic Christmas toys with GE technologies. Here [+]

Research and Development needed to meet future health challenges

The economic and financial crunch has led to the upheaval of many industries. Medical research has also been affected due to funding pressure increasing more than ever. However, future health challenges [+]

5 (or 6) very promising Areas of Medical Research

Health science is one field that evolves continuously regardless of the country. Providing medical care to people is the utmost duty of every government. This also means that a lot of funds [+]

#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 [+]

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 [+]

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 [+]

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 [+]

DNA Electronics Partners with Roche to Develop new DNA sequencer

DNA Electronics, a fabless semiconductor provider of solutions for real-time DNA and RNA analysis, announced today that it has entered a partnership with 454 Life Sciences, a Roche Company. The collaboration will focus on the development of a [+]

Health Decisions Appoints New CTO to Streamline its HD360° Trial Management Platform

Health Decisions (www.HealthDec.com), a full-service clinical research organization (CRO) specializing in adaptive solutions for high-efficiency clinical development, has appointed Bryan Minihan as Chief Technology Officer. Minihan will strengthen Health Decisions’ proprietary HD360° technology platform—the fully integrated CTMS, CDMS and web [+]

PODCAST: Edelman Health Engagement Barometer

Edelman has released their "Health Engagement Barometer" study this week. Their 15,000+ person study spanned 11 countries and engaged multiple industries to determine trust and opinions about health and the importance of health in the workplace.  [+]

PODCAST Making leadership understand the value of Information Technology

HealthTechnica's first official PodCast is available today. Many thanks to Jennifer for stepping out and helping with some voice work!  You can find Jennifer on Twitter @jenniferlucille Thanks Jennifer!! PODCAST: I have been asked by many IT [+]

Healthcare Information Technology Systems market to be worth $53.8 billion by 2014

The healthcare information technology report forecasts the size of global healthcare information technology market over the period 2009 – 2014. The report analyses the key trends of the market, and segments the global healthcare information technology market by components [+]

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 [+]

German based Fraunhofer creates a fiber-glass guidewire

The metal guidewire creates several problems for patients.  Whenever they have a catheter and require an internal diagnostic tests they have to be xrayed and use contrasting.  The new fiber glass guidewire will allow for [+]