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It really was only a matter of time before this happened, and we only hope that the technology doesn't work both ways.
After all, it would not be fun for you to put on a cap and direct your robot only for it to suddenly decide to control you back.
Anyway, a team of scientists from Switzerland's Ecole Poly... |
28 April 2012
06:54 GMT |
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There is a certain Telemedicine Encounter Management Systems company (TEMS) that strives to serve the field of medicine. It is called AMD Global Telemedicine and has formed a partnership with a supplier of personal telepresence.AMD Global Telemedicine and Vidyo have begun a collaboration meant to combine the f... |
26 April 2012
11:08 GMT |
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Mercy Jets, a professional air ambulance company based out of Phoenix, Arizona, is adopting the iPad to automate the monitoring of patients’ vital signs and assist in recording patient interactions.
The company is now finalizing testing of iPad integration on its air ambulance flights with the end goal of ensu... |
23 March 2012
15:21 GMT |
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Authorities arrested 7 individuals suspected of running a highly sophisticated healthcare fraud scheme that earned them close to $375 million (262 million EUR).
A 54-year-old doctor named Jacques Roy, from Rockwall Texas, with the aid of his office manager and five others that owned home health agencies in Texas wer... |
2 March 2012
03:06 GMT |
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Advancements in nanotechnology promise to yield new methods of delivering drugs, as well as perform other repair operations, in the human body. In a recent study, experts took a closer look at the effects that exposure to nanoparticles has on proteins.
Determining how the two interact is critically important, if we... |
22 February 2012
16:31 GMT |
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Today, Microsoft announced more details on its plans to form a 50-50 joint venture with General Electric Co. (GE), through its healthcare IT business. The two companies unveiled their intent to showcase future product capabilities at HIMSS12, the largest healthcare IT trade show of the year, set to take place late... |
13 February 2012
16:41 GMT |
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Panasonic is drawing attention to a study conducted by BizTechReports, an independent research and reporting agency, that claims to have found major operational issues for tablet computers like the iPad in healthcare.
A white paper by Panasonic highlights the growing concerns of healthcare IT executives trying to me... |
1 February 2012
13:41 GMT |
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One of the most important group of carcinogens in tobacco cigarette smoke can be neutralized by the addition of lycopene and grape seed extract to cigarette filters. This could make cigarette smoking a lot less harmful to those who are trying to quit, but cannot.
Cornell University scientists say that these two com... |
3 January 2012
10:22 GMT |
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IBM decided it was time for its Watson supercomputer to start contributing to the wellbeing of mankind instead of just winning knowledge games.Watson showed its mettle by winning a game of Jeopardy! against two human champions.Now, servers like the ones that powered Watson during the Jeopardy! contest will help the ... |
27 December 2011
11:06 GMT |
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Kinect is meant to offer a wider range of applications than playing video games, Microsoft claims, pointing out at the manner in which it could help people regain mobility after an accident.When it comes to healthcare, Kinect can easily prove a successful solution for helping seniors, for example, through measuring ... |
20 December 2011
16:01 GMT |
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French startup Aldebaran Robotics just announced the next-generation version of the Nao robot that is meant to interact with humans and assist organizations that care for people with disabilities (autistic children and other conditions). Mostly, Nao Next Gen is intended for research, teaching and generally explorin... |
9 December 2011
07:10 GMT |
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Microsoft is determined to offer help to healthcare organizations and professionals to use real-time, systemwide intelligence for improving healthcare quality, via a new joint venture it created in collaboration with General Electric Co.
The new entity will be focused on delivering an open, interoperable technology... |
8 December 2011
10:34 GMT |
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We don't know how we managed to miss this encouraging news when it came out about a week ago, but better late than never, especially for a decision that could genuinely improve lives.
FCC decided to allocate a segment of the radio spectrum for wireless devices that could lead to giving paralyzed patients the a... |
7 December 2011
05:14 GMT |
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Memo just announced a device that, in a way, is a throwback to the times when tablets were only heard of in specific fields, like medicine, only it used media slate looks. Memo Touch, LLC just launched a special-purpose tablet that bears its name. Basically, the Memo Touch tablet is intended for elderly citizens ... |
2 December 2011
20:51 GMT |
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Scientists at the Rhode Island Hospital report in a new paper that the Internet provides all the capabilities needed for doctors to assess the effectiveness of a prescribed depression treatment, without actually having to see the patient.
In other words, the Internet version of the depression scale is equivalent to... |
4 November 2011
15:01 GMT |
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Medical exams can be really harsh on one's privacy, but Plessy Semiconductors says it managed to make at least one checkup easier on everyone involved.
The British company introduced an ECG (Electrocardiography) sensor that doesn't need electroconductive gels, sticky electrodes or anything of that sort to... |
3 November 2011
05:59 GMT |
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People will probably feel a bit wary of any machine handling their eyes, or any other body part, but a researcher from the Netherland's University of Technology thinks robots, or the particular robot he made, will assist with such things very well.
Researcher Thijs Meenink at TU/e said that the new eye surge... |
29 October 2011
03:51 GMT |
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According to the conclusions of a new investigation conducted by researchers at the University of Minnesota Division of Epidemiology and Community Health, it would appear that even the most health-conscious consumers don't pay as much attention to nutrition labels as they think they do.
These labels appear on ... |
25 October 2011
10:31 GMT |
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It appears that even Apple's relentless lawsuit spree isn't enough to stop the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 from becoming an intrinsic part of the healthcare field, even if it is just one hospital at a time.
This report says that the 10.1-inch Samsung tablet known as Galaxy Tab 10.1 has been added to the inner... |
21 October 2011
10:01 GMT |
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HP collaborates with hospitals on a variety of projects, in this case the advancements of patient status system recording and updating, the partner being Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford.As consumer technology progresses, it only makes sense that IT and gadgets make their way to other fields as w... |
18 October 2011
09:45 GMT |
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Intel makes investments more or less often, and the latest one involved a certain sum of money passing into the hands of health care company CareCloud.
When we spoke of the big plans that AMD had for the cloud in China, we mentioned the efficiency, centralization and management benefits that cloud could bring to ... |
1 October 2011
05:23 GMT |
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IT companies have been making advancements in robotics, but even with breakthroughs few and far between, there is still, like now, the occasional invention that can make people smile.
Panasonic decided to experiment a bit, leading to the creation of the "HOSPI-Rimo" communications intermediary for bed-ridden peopl... |
29 September 2011
08:05 GMT |
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Meditation may represent a low-cost solution to the wide array of health problems that are caused by stress. The phenomenon causes a lot of damage both in our minds and in our bodies, and counteracting it with meditation provides a cheap and effective method of keeping the side-effects in check.
Improving nationa... |
13 September 2011
10:32 GMT |
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MultiSync series member MD215MG is a 21.3-inch panel that has just received official clearance for being sued by trained physicians as a medical diagnostic display in mammography images.NEC may not be that focused on the consumer market, but its business and industrial solutions are spread far and wide.The MultiSync... |
22 August 2011
08:49 GMT |
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The poor implementation of key national guideline-recommended therapies may be responsible for as much as 68,000 deaths per year in the United States alone. All of these people could survive, if the country were to implement the therapy courses in an optimal manner. Some of the therapies include prescribing and insta... |
7 June 2011
05:24 GMT |
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Voice2Dox, an integrated dictation app for those working in healthcare, is now available as a free download from the iTunes App Store, announces Integrated Document Solutions, a company dealing with healthcare applications delivered via cloud computing.
The second iOS app in the company’s portfolio, Voice2Do... |
6 May 2011
12:31 GMT |
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Those that have been keeping track of such things will know that HP just announced a complete strategy for telehealth programs, and it seems said plans involve more than just the HP Slate 500.HP may be known as the world's greatest supplier of PCs, but its business extends well beyond the consumer segment.This ... |
21 February 2011
09:08 GMT |
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Tablets may have become more or less synonymous with media slates, but the fact remains that other markets besides the consumer segment are benefiting from their rising popularity, as proven by the HP Slate 500.HP may have been among the companies that revealed a new media tablet during MWC 2011 (Mobile World Congre... |
21 February 2011
08:39 GMT |
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Many tablets have been unleashed so far, most of them for the consumer market, but CoActiv Medical decided to create a slate that, instead of multimedia, is designed for use in healthcare.The tablet form factor has definitely become popular, enough so that models intended for various industry segments are starting t... |
11 February 2011
08:18 GMT |
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In a new series of investigations, experts have revealed that healthcare professionals who exhibit small displays of empathy to the people they are treating are having a very positive effect on the outcome of the overall treatment.It was found that patients who benefit from this type of treatment tend to report incre... |
26 January 2011
03:17 GMT |
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Several years ago, a new rule called for fast food vendors to display nutritional facts about their products on each of them, so as to inform people about the choices they are making, and make them more aware of their health. The public health initiative yielded no tangible results. After a year of surveys, researche... |
18 January 2011
09:41 GMT |
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Authorities in Washington approved one of the most important piece of legislation ever signed in the past few years. The history food safety legislation is the first major change to be adopted in this field in the last 70 years or so, experts say. The US Senate, in a 73-to-25 vote, decided to pass the Food Safety Mod... |
1 December 2010
08:48 GMT |
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Officials at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) in the United States announce the opening of a new center that seeks to make it easier for experts to develop solutions for a wide variety of healthcare-related challenges, mostly through the use of modeling and simulations. The Center for Modeling, Simulation, ... |
4 November 2010
10:03 GMT |
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Scientists at the Berkeley Lab will soon host the 13th workshop for Ion Beams in Biology and Medicine, the first such meeting to be held in the United States. Participants will discuss how to best use ion beams for treating cancer. Generally, healthcare experts tend to use various forms of radiation to treat this dis... |
19 October 2010
02:23 GMT |
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Researchers at MIT have developed a new method for analyzing health indicators such as blood pressure, pulse and respiration, which only needs a low-cost video camera to operate. At this point, checking for vital signs is cumbersome, in the sense that a lot of manual work or sensor devices are needed to draw out usef... |
4 October 2010
06:52 GMT |
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A team of experts from the MIT, including students, volunteers, and professors, has recently developed a new method of providing healthcare to millions of people in the Third World, and in the developed world. Their approach relies heavily on the 5 billion+ mobile-device subscribers that exist worldwide. A large part... |
27 September 2010
06:50 GMT |
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A team of experts at the Indiana University reveals that praying for those who are sick can indeed have beneficial consequences. It was found for example that people praying in close proximity to their loved ones instilled the most significant changes, whereas those who prayed in separate rooms, or farther away, had ... |
5 August 2010
10:42 GMT |
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Competition among hospitals in Great Britain lowers the patients' death rate and their overall stay in hospital, says a new study carried out by researchers of the University of Bristol. They also found out that this phenomenon did not increase overall expenses.Hospitals belonging to the National Healthcare Syst... |
29 July 2010
10:12 GMT |
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Some time ago, psychologists and social scientists determined that a significant discrepancy exists in hospitals and homes, between the expectations terminally-ill patients have of those around them, and the things they actually receive in response. The experts emphasized the fact that relationships are the main meth... |
23 July 2010
10:47 GMT |
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While being overly-optimistic might make you look dumb, generally speaking, just the right amount of the feeling may actually have significant health advantages. According to new researches, it could be that always seeing the full half of the glass might contribute to the well-being of the immune system, strengthenin... |
25 March 2010
09:45 GMT |
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MobiHealthNews, a daily, online trade journal for the mobile health industry, has confirmed the availability of its first paid research report: The World of Health and Medical Apps, while Logical Images, Inc., a company providing professional visual diagnostic decision support, has released its first medical app for ... |
2 March 2010
09:17 GMT |
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Present at the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) annual conference, Sprint Nextel CEO Dan Hesse pointed out that the wireless technology would play an important role in the healthcare industry which was going through some major transformations. Dan Hesse also shared some examples of wirele... |
2 March 2010
06:17 GMT |
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One of the greatest problems plaguing the efficiency of healthcare systems around the world are the people who think they know what's best for them more than professional doctors do. In many instances, a defiant behavior as to the doctor may have more severe consequences than you can imagine, moving past hurting... |
12 February 2010
06:36 GMT |
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One of the primary reasons why today's societies are unfair is the unequal access to healthcare. In addition to this, there are millions of people who have no access to healthcare, except for when they pay exorbitant amounts of money for even the simplest check-up or procedure. Many, even in the developed world,... |
11 February 2010
05:44 GMT |
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Convertible tablets with radiology features have been seeing increasing adoption in the healthcare department, because of their functionality and lower cost compared to cart systems. Toshiba has just recently finished putting the final touches on one such device. Known as the Viamo laptop ultrasound system, the table... |
6 February 2010
07:01 GMT |
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A new scientific study has demonstrated the influence that the parents' actions have on their children, at least as far as going to see the dentist is concerned. The research shows that children of parents who consult their dental healthcare experts regularly are more likely to do the same, and not fear the doct... |
1 February 2010
05:45 GMT |
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People working in the healthcare system are oftentimes so “immune” to the jobs they do that they forget to manage their patients' emotions. This holds true when imparting bad news, such as the failure of a surgery, and even in the case of mothers suffering from post-natal depression. The second condi... |
21 January 2010
05:44 GMT |
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A new scientific study has determined that using mannequins to guide would-be doctors when they learn how to use ultrasound imaging is highly effective, without risking the quality of healthcare provided to patients. The method should be used in a lot more settings than it's currently employed in, as it ensures ... |
30 November 2009
03:40 GMT |
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The latest scientific estimates on the strain that diabetes, as a disease, will place on the US healthcare system over the medium-term have revealed that costs will more than triple within 25 years, while the number of patients will reach double its current value, Reuters reports. The viability of Medicare, as well a... |
27 November 2009
11:09 GMT |
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In his work “The Art,” the ancient Greek Hippocrates wrote, more than 2,500 years before the modern era, that medial practitioners were not scientists, but artists, and that their art was using their knowledge to do good. Healthcare providers were also described as people who knew when to use their medica... |
21 October 2009
03:57 GMT |
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