New windows mobile treo may have wifi
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Palm InfoCenter reports that some Palm customers have been receiving invitations to beta test a new device for Palm. The requirements of the testing suggest that the next generation Windows Mobile Treo device may include WiFi. (Source: Mobile Computers in Medicine)
Source: Mobile Computers in Medicine - May 8, 2008 Category: Technology Consultants Source Type: blogs
Meditation with yoga, group therapy with hypnosis, and psychoeducation for long-term depressed mood
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Authors: Butler LD, Waelde LC, Hastings TA, Chen XH, Symons B, Marshall J, Kaufman A, Nagy TF, Blasey CM, Seibert EO, Spiegel D This randomized pilot study investigated the effects of meditation with yoga (and psychoeducation) versus group therapy with hypnosis (and psychoeducation) versus psychoeducation alone on diagnostic status and symptom levels among 46 individuals with long-term depressive disorders. Results indicate that significantly more meditation group participants experienced a remission than did controls at 9-month follow-up. Eight hypnosis group participants also experienced a remission, but the difference f...
Source: Positive Technology Journal - May 8, 2008 Category: Technology Consultants Tags: Meditation & brain Source Type: blogs
Emr and health 2.0
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Recently I’ve been reading a fair amount about the movement that many are calling Health 2.0. I think the most simple description of Health 2.0 is applying many of the Web 2.0 concepts to health care. My question is whether EMR fits into Health 2.0. My personal feeling is that most of them don’t. Most Web 2.0 projects are consumer facing projects that allow people to interact, collaborate and participate in the process. EMR software is more about facilitating a doctor’s charting.
Certainly you could make a good case that a patient portal or EHR is more Health 2.0. In fact, that really seems to cut to the ...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - May 8, 2008 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: EMR and HIPAA Tags: EHR EMR EMR Technology HealthCare IT Patient Portal health 2.0 Web 2.0 Source Type: blogs
Hit heads for may 8
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Top health IT headlines from HITTG's news pages at http://hittransition.com/news (Source: The HIT Transition Weblog)
Source: The HIT Transition Weblog - May 8, 2008 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Michael Christopher Tags: HIT Heads (selected headlines) Source Type: blogs
The shape of music
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Via KurzweilAI.net Three music professors have developed a method called "geometrical music theory" that translates the language of musical theory into that of contemporary geometry. (Dmitri Tymoczko, Princeton University) They categorize sequences of notes, like chords, rhythms and scales into "families" that can be represented by points in complex geometrical spaces. (Source: Positive Technology Journal)
Source: Positive Technology Journal - May 8, 2008 Category: Technology Consultants Tags: Information visualization Source Type: blogs
I can drive 55
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I was listening to an interesting radio program about energy and oil during my weekly pilgrimage to Merrill. It’s a 186 mile round trip and with gas prices the way they are, this is becoming more expensive. The radio program was going into all of the issues around energy use and energy prices. Whether or not you believe in global warming or carbon footprints, you can’t disagree with the fact that overall oil demand is going to exceed overall supply very shortly. Gas prices and food prices are linked and they are going up. Our current levels of oil use are simply not sustainable and at some point we have to sober up to ...
Source: Appropriate IT - May 8, 2008 Category: Technology Consultants Source Type: blogs
The us starts to really build its national health information network.
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Two items appeared in the last few days showing that we are starting to really see some substantive progress with the National Health Information Network (NHIN). First we have just had the following conference: HIN-HISPC-SLHIE Joint Conference: Fostering Partnerships to Advance Health Information Exchange The Joint Conference includes participants from three Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) led contracts: the Nationwide Health Information Network (NHIN), the Health Information Security and Privacy Collaboration (HISPC), and the State Level Health Information Exchange Consensus Pro...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - May 8, 2008 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Aus HIT Man Source Type: blogs
Ge healthcare unveils new 3.0t signa mr750 system
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GE Healthcare is introducing a new 3.0 Tesla magnetic resonance scanner, the latest addition to its Signa family of MRI systems, a machine called Signa® MR750 3.0T. The device, newly approved by the FDA, has just been unveiled at the International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine in Toronto, May 3-9.
The Signa MR750 features a newly designed RF Transmit system maximizing performance with a 17 percent gain in scanning efficiency. In addition, the system includes the GE-exclusive Optical RF Technology that adds up to 27 percent higher signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) over conventional, non-optical MR receivers by re...
Source: Medgadget - May 8, 2008 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Michael Source Type: blogs
Podcast of presentation at himss 2008 on soa
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HIMSS just posted podcasts from the conference in Orlando. Scroll down and you will see mine:Service Oriented Architecture - Data Reuse and Integration in Healthcare Technorati: SOA (Source: eHealth)
Source: eHealth - May 7, 2008 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: John Sharp Tags: HIMSS SOA Source Type: blogs
Passphotoprint.com: quick way to diy passport photos
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Guess which photo costs $14 and which 31 cents?
I had the polaroid picture in the lower right taken at a Kinko's in Manhattan for $14. (The retake was even worse.)
Then, I found out about Passphotoprint.com. This Web site takes your 2x2 inch digital photo and gangs it up on a 4x6 inch print. I took a 15-minute walk to the nearest RiteAid drugstore, inserted the SD card into their Kodak printing machine, and they produced an excellent 4x6 print in minutes for 31 cents.
To take the photo I set my Nikon point & shoot S10 on a pile of books. I was facing the window in my bedroom and used the self timer and fill flash. I...
Source: Wireless Doc - May 7, 2008 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Bill Koslosky, MD Tags: digital lifestyle Source Type: blogs
Barcoding and patient context
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One of the most important areas of connectivity, and one that frequently does not receive the attention it deserves, is establishing and maintaining patient context. Historically, connected devices identified data by location - tagging data with a bed or even port number - rather than the actual patient name or ID. Because patients are frequently moved during an episode of care - not to mention ambulatory - data that is only tagged with a location presents risks of misidentification. In an effort to improve positive patient identification, data is increasingly tagged with a patient identifier.
Besides patient safety, patie...
Source: Medical Connectivity Consulting - May 7, 2008 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Tim Gee Tags: Patient Safety barcode meds administration patient context smart pumps Source Type: blogs
Unlimited potential for tele-health
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Regular HealthBlog readers know that I'm a huge proponent of eHealth and tele-health as a means to extend healthcare information and services to citizens around the globe. In my world travels I see plenty of evidence that we are entering a new age in the provision of care; harkened by a need to help control spiraling costs, improve access, and extend a dwindling and aging population of skilled healthcare professionals. A few weeks ago on HealthBlog, I told you about a tele-health project that Microsoft's Unlimited Potential group has been working on in rural India. Imagine remote villages, dusty roads, and for...
Source: HealthBlog - May 7, 2008 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: hlthblog Tags: newtag Source Type: blogs
Killing projects - embrace the concept
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My recent post on project failure was one of my all-time favorites. While I wrote about failure from the top of my head, the reader comments were really well considered. Between my thoughts and the reader observations I think we have a great summary of the main reasons IT projects fail. I plan to turn that into a presentation.
Of course you do not want projects to fail. The preferred alternative is success. But there is a 3rd option, if a project is clearly not meeting your expectations you should kill it. Wayward projects are those suffering from cost and schedule overruns; are clearly going to require more resources than...
Source: Candid CIO - May 7, 2008 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: hospitalcio Tags: Project Management Source Type: blogs
Dramatic increase in search speed
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I've been worried about the search speed for some time. The removal of the number of results for each individual category was meant to improve things, it didn't.Yesterday (see previous post) I introduced a system that removed search results which we considered not relevant. As well as improving the search relevancy it reduced - dramatically - the number of search results returned. By accident this has resulted in a huge increase in search speed.Not all accidents are bad! (Source: Liberating the literature)
Source: Liberating the literature - May 7, 2008 Category: Technology Consultants Source Type: blogs
Nin: the slip
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free download (Source: Wireless Doc)
Source: Wireless Doc - May 7, 2008 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Bill Koslosky, MD Source Type: blogs
Phrs and hipaa
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Posted May 7, 2008 by Lygeia Ricciardi Recently Dr. Reid Cushman, who is part of a Project HealthDesign team at the University of Miami that is working on the ethical, legal and social implications of next-generation PHRs, posted a paper... (Source: Project Health Design Blog)
Source: Project Health Design Blog - May 7, 2008 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Lygeia Ricciardi Source Type: blogs
Now here is a really fabulous idea!
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I came upon this press release during the week. If ever there was an example of Web 2.0 in health this is it! iGUARD.ORG ALTERS THE FACE OF E-HEALTH NEW WEB SERVICE DRAWS 10,000 NEW PATIENTS WEEKLY First and Only Site Allows Patients to See How Drugs Actually Work in Real People Princeton, NJ, April 30, 2008 – Today, iGuard.org, a free, patient-driven online healthcare community, announced the launch of an innovative new tool that brings patient empowerment to a new level. With almost half of all Americans taking prescription drugs, and eight out of ten surfing the web for their healthcare information, iGuard.org now let...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - May 7, 2008 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Aus HIT Man Source Type: blogs
The solaraid revisited
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Two years ago we reported on the SolarAid, a low cost solar-powered hearing aid intended for the hearing-impaired in developing countries. A recent article in Newsweek looks at the success of the device and gives a little insight into the mind behind it, Howard Weinstein:
Weinstein knew what he had to do: change the business model. Drawing on his years in the corporate bunker, he started working the phones, chatting up financiers, consulting with electronics wizards and haggling with manufacturers. He landed a small grant from the U.S. government-run African Development Foundation and, with help from some dedicated electr...
Source: Medgadget - May 7, 2008 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: jhbarad Source Type: blogs
Gore receives eu's ce mark for preclude vessel guard
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Gore & Associates has received EU's approval to market its PRECLUDE vessel guard, developed to provide protection for vasculature following anterior spinal surgery for degenerative disc disease, just in case if these surgical patients have to return for a revision procedure. Anterior vertebral re-explorations have inherently increased risks of damage to major abdominal vessels, such as the aorta, the vena cava, and the iliacs.
GORE PRECLUDE Vessel Guard enables vasculature management in patients having undergone anterior spinal surgery for degenerative disc disease, including artificial disc replacement (ADR), where scarr...
Source: Medgadget - May 7, 2008 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Michael Source Type: blogs
Ei*nav/artemis prostate ultrasound machine receives fda clearance
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Eigen, a Grass Valley, California company, just received FDA clearance for its 4D ultrasound system specifically designed for urologists to find and track prostate cancer biopsy locations.
Using proprietary next-generation 3D/4D imaging, Artemis™ provides solutions not available today by enhancing urologists' existing ultrasound machines, the vast majority of which are only 2D. Now, Artemis allows urologists to virtually see inside the prostate in real time during biopsy, guides them with 4D needle navigation during the delicate procedure, maps biopsy locations and generates an image of 3D biopsy coordinates for fu...
Source: Medgadget - May 7, 2008 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Michael Source Type: blogs
Chew this over: mechanical mouth unveiled in france
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French researchers have developed an artificial mechanical mouth, which can supposedly munch up food very similarly to how a human mouth does it. The device is intended to be used for testing various foods with regards to quality, and to also understand how flavors are influenced by the physical composition of the food.
The munching device mimics the first steps of digestion - chewing, saliva release and food breakdown. About five times the size of a human mouth inside, the steel container is kept at a steady 37°C by an electrical element. Its internal surfaces are coated with a chemically resistant plastic used for m...
Source: Medgadget - May 7, 2008 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Michael Source Type: blogs
In the works: inhalable drug testing device
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Cambridge Consultants is reporting that the company is developing "a low-cost, portable instrument that has the potential to revolutionise [sic] the way certain drug delivery devices are tested."
From the press release:
Through the innovative use of technology, the new device can mirror the performance and level of data provided by current laboratory laser diffraction measurement machines, for an estimated one-hundredth of the cost when integrated into a high volume device. The device measures the droplet size distribution in an airstream, a technique used in testing respiratory drug delivery devices.
Airborne drug deli...
Source: Medgadget - May 7, 2008 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Michael Source Type: blogs
Hydrochalarone mri contrast agent does well in early study
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HYDROCHALARONE™ nanomaterial is a next generation contrast agent, under development by Roanoke, Virginia based firm Luna Innovations, that has just been successfully demonstrated as an effective MRI image enhancer in the mouse model. HYDROCHALARONE is based on the company's proprietary TRIMETASPHERE® molecular cage construct (second picture below), a molecule formed by up to 80 carbon atoms, that is capable of encapsulating a variety of metals (Scandium, Lutetium, Holmium, Gadolinium) inside its cage.
From the press statement by Luna Innovations:
The new class of molecules discovered by Luna is called HYDROCHAL...
Source: Medgadget - May 7, 2008 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Michael Source Type: blogs
Peak plasmablade wants to be the new bovie
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PEAK Surgical, Inc. from Palo Alto, CA hates the bovie cutter/coagulator. The company cannot stand the 1920's technology behind the bovie, and how its thermal function destroys healthy patient tissue around the cut. What do we hate about the bovie? Well, you know: all those bovie induced burns and destroyed gloves that surgeons are regularly subjected to.
Long story short, PEAK Surgical wants its Peak PlasmaBlade, a cold cutter and coagulator, to be the bovie of the 21st century. The company is quite hopeful: a new study presented in a poster session at the ongoing American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists' (ACO...
Source: Medgadget - May 7, 2008 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Michael Source Type: blogs
A note on medical pixie dust
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Yesterday we published a story about a man who re-grew a tip of his finger using "pixie-dust" supposedly sent to him by his brother who worked in a regenerative medicine lab. By now the story has largely been discredited. In our defense, when we saw the story on BBC and other respectful outlets, we did not publish it right away. We sat on it for 5 days or so, awaiting a press release from the University of Pittsburgh. When it did not materialize, without realizing that the story has been discredited, we went ahead and published it. We apologize for this gaffe.
More from the BBC...
(thanks, Matt!) (Source: Medgadget)
Source: Medgadget - May 7, 2008 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Michael Source Type: blogs
Boston scientific altrea pacemaker eu approved
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Boston Scientific just received approval from the EU to market the company's newest family of pacemakers.
The following features are listed in the press release:
ALTRUA is Boston Scientific's most advanced pacemaker and delivers enhanced therapies while maintaining its small size and battery longevity. It is the first Boston Scientific-branded pacemaker to treat bradycardia, a condition in which the heart beats too slowly -- usually less than 60 beats per minute -- depriving the body of sufficient oxygen.
Multiple Atrial Ventricular (AV) Delay programming options: These options are designed to reduce unnecessary right v...
Source: Medgadget - May 7, 2008 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Michael Source Type: blogs
A tale of two cities: ehealth and consumer health world
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Yesterday, I had the great honor to provide the opening keynote for eHealth Canada in Vancouver, BC. Although I accepted the invitation to speak at the conference almost a year ago, nobody had to twist my arm. I always enjoy my visits to Vancouver. I think it is one of the most beautiful cities in the world. Even better, this year's conference with a theme "extending the reach" was the largest ever. More than 1700 people attended. Contrast the view outside my hotel window there vs. where I find myself today, overlooking the always-expanding, over the top, mind blowing vistas of the Las V...
Source: HealthBlog - May 6, 2008 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: hlthblog Tags: newtag Source Type: blogs
Web 2.0 and soa
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Is Service Oriented Architecture a subset of Web 2.0 or are they similar technologies with some overlap. According to and article in eWeek which reports on a presentation by Ben Flock, a Microsoft Healthcare & Life Sciences, at a recent Microsoft conference, "Flock said Web 2.0
encompassed three basic categories: rich Internet applications developed with
technologies like AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML), Silverlight and Flash;
SOA (service-oriented architectures) such as Web services, RSS feeds and
mashups; and the social Web, built of wikis, blogs, podcasts and social
networking sites."I view Web 2.0 and S...
Source: eHealth - May 6, 2008 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: John Sharp Tags: Web 2.0 Source Type: blogs
Report of evaluation of summary care record early adopter programme
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(Source: Informaticopia)
Source: Informaticopia - May 6, 2008 Category: Technology Consultants Tags: SCR NPfIT CfH Summary Care Records EHR Connecting for Health Source Type: blogs
Still at the seoul digital forum -- and bill gates showed ....
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Sort of. Gates was in Seoul, a few miles away, but he chose (or his handlers chose) to address us via video.
Disappointing. You'd think he'd drive a few miles to visit with us after meeting South Korea's new president. But no.
On the great side, Sumner Redstone showed up with a great speech, Scott Page (Pink Floyd) jammed on stage at tonight's speakers' dinner, and my panel is over with 4 days left in the beautiful city of Seoul.
I had a chance to speak to Sumner Redstone (chairman, Viacom) and asked him if it was really true that drinking Mona Vie was going to give him many more decades of life. (My mother-in-law claim...
Source: I'm Gina Smith - May 6, 2008 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: gina smith Source Type: blogs
Medicare's wrong... no willy nilly npis
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We wanted to know whether Medicare's demand that an NPI be placed in secondary provider slot, even if it's the wrong one, was really the right thing to do. Our question to the official standards body was dead simple:
In Medicare's guidance to its billers, it states:
"If, after several unsuccessful attempts to obtain the NPI from the ordering, referring, attending, operating, other, service facility provider, or purchased service provider; CR 5890, from which this article is taken, requires that (effective May 23, 2008) the provider or supplier who is furnishing the services or items report their own name and NPI in the c...
Source: The HIT Transition Weblog - May 6, 2008 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Martin Jensen Tags: 837 Claims Contingency NPI - National Provider ID Standards Development Source Type: blogs
New directions in health informatics education
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(Source: Informaticopia)
Source: Informaticopia - May 6, 2008 Category: Technology Consultants Source Type: blogs
Improving search on trip
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We have just released a major improvement in the TRIP search results.This has been brought about by the refinement of our 'text cutoff tool'. Prior to this introduction a search would return every result that contained the search terms. So a search of acute kidney injury returned the CKS guideline on ankles and sprains! I imagine most people would agree that that is not even an average result - it simply shouldn't be there. But how has it got there? It contains all the individual terms, so is returned.So how does the text cutoff tool work?Each search on TRIP looks for matches to the search term(s) used and these are ordere...
Source: Liberating the literature - May 6, 2008 Category: Technology Consultants Source Type: blogs
Soap: apply, rinse, and repeat
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SOAP (sōp) n.
A cleansing agent, manufactured in bars, granules, flakes, or liquid form, made from a mixture of the sodium salts of various fatty acids of natural oils and fats.
A process of medical evaluation and management which involves subjective, objective, assessment, and plan components.
Slang. Money, especially that which is used for bribery.
I have my 10 year Medical School reunion this year. It is hard to imaging that 10 years have flown by since those halcyon days at the University of Utah. Ahhh, the memories: the incredible pervasiveness of the anatomy lab smell, the 12 hour study sessions in the library...
Source: Crossover Healthcare - May 6, 2008 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: scottshreeve Tags: Consumerism Health Plan 2.0 Prevention Value Source Type: blogs
What the hell is wrong with doha?
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Just a very short blog. Why – after almost six months – can’t the Commonwealth Department of Health sort out its web-site? Seems to me if they can’t do this – and we keep being referred to the archive site something serious is wrong! This banner has become just embarrassing! “Material on the Department of Health and Ageing web site is being reviewed following the federal election on 24 November 2007. The department’s previous web site and its essential health and ageing information have been archived, but remain accessible here. This revised web site will reflect the new government's policies, programs and pr...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - May 6, 2008 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Aus HIT Man Source Type: blogs
Medical pixie dust: is it finally here?
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An Ohio man recently chopped off a part of his finger while playing with a model plane rotor. Luckily for Mr Lee Spievak, his brother Alan is a researcher within the field of regenerative medicine, and had access to Dr Stephen Badylak's "pixie dust", developed at the University of Pittsburgh.
The process [Dr Stephen Badylak] has been pioneering over the last few years involves scraping the cells from the lining of a pig's bladder. The remaining tissue is then placed into acid, "cleaned" of all cells, and dried out.
It can be turned into sheets, or a powder. It looks like a simple process, but of course the science is co...
Source: Medgadget - May 6, 2008 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Michael Source Type: blogs
Vascuseal goes on sale in europe
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Covidien, a US company with executive headquarters in Bermuda, is introducing its CE Mark approved vascular sealant system to the European market.
Unlike a hemostatic agent, a vascular sealant can seal blood leaks and does not depend on either the time for the blood to clot or the strength of the blood clot to perform successfully. The VascuSeal(TM) Sealant System offers surgeons a valuable tool to reduce bleeding from the suture line in vascular bypass procedures, and reduces post-operative complications associated with suture line bleeding.
The VascuSeal(TM) sealant technology is a patented synthetic, absorbable hydro...
Source: Medgadget - May 6, 2008 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Michael Source Type: blogs
Study shows incubators change babies' heartbeat
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Carlo Bellieni, et. al. from the University of Siena, Italy published a study in the latest Archives of Disease in Childhood that apparently shows changes in heart rate variability (HRV) in a small group of newborns in a neonatal ICU. The authors believe that electromagnetic fields in incubators, as documented in changes in HRV throughout three 5-minute periods (with incubator motor on, off, and on again), have some kind of effect on the neonatal autonomous nervous system.
To learn more about the study, read this editorial in Nature...
Abstract: Electromagnetic fields produced by incubators influence heart rate variabil...
Source: Medgadget - May 6, 2008 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Michael Source Type: blogs
Sentinelle vanguard breast mr auxiliary table
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Sentinelle Medical Inc., a Toronto, Ontario firm, is reporting that its president Mr. Cameron Piron was just recognized as Best Young Innovator by the Ontario Ministry of Research and Innovation. Putting aside the whole twisted idea of "Ministry of Research and Innovation", we ventured to check out the product of Sentinelle Medical. It turns out that the product, called Sentinelle Vanguard Breast MR Auxiliary Table®, is a pretty clever device. Designed to work in tandem with GE Healtcare's Signa® HDx 1.5T MRI system, the table features an eight channel coil array that enhances imaging of the breast, while the confi...
Source: Medgadget - May 6, 2008 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Michael Source Type: blogs
Future of phrs
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The editor of Health Data Management has written an editorial piece on "PHRs: Where Are We Headed?" Because of a variety of products and uneven adoption, he wonders "whether PHRs ultimately will prove to be a passing fad or a ubiquitous technology." He does note that PHRs are probably most effective for the chronically ill who will use them regularly to manage their conditions. He discusses extensively the privacy issue and the fact that many PHRs are not provided by HIPAA covered entities including Google and Microsoft. He quotes several leaders in the field including Holly Miller, MD of University Hospitals of Cleveland ...
Source: eHealth - May 5, 2008 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: John Sharp Tags: PHRs Source Type: blogs
Health and second life
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I've been on Facebook for a while, for most of that time I have not understood the appeal. I joined due to the buzz and I wanted to understand it.Similarly I joined Second Life, hoping to understand it. In many ways I can see the appeal of Second Life more than Facebook. I don't use it but can appreciate the ability to immerse yourself in an alternative reality. Perhaps if I was 20 and had lots of time on my hands I'd be hooked.But this report Providing Consumer Health Outreach and Library Programs to Virtual World Residents in Second Life has just been released:"The major accomplishments of the project include: the carefu...
Source: Liberating the literature - May 5, 2008 Category: Technology Consultants Source Type: blogs
Some text messaging tricks for physicians
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Texting isn't only for teenagers! Doctors may find many useful features here, such as being able to check the calories on restaurant menus (for patients too!), doing Google searches online, getting your appointment lists from Google, and many other cool text features that are ripe for the medical world. (Source: Mobile Computers in Medicine)
Source: Mobile Computers in Medicine - May 5, 2008 Category: Technology Consultants Source Type: blogs
May 2008 hl7 working group meeting
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This week is the May HL7 Working Group Meeting in Phoenix, AZ. I’m looking forward to meeting up with the HL7 community and helping build the HL7 standard.
NeoTool will be hosting our Tuesday Night Party (TNP) at Gallagher’s, a sports themed bar. If you are at the WGM or in the area, please stop by Tuesday. More details over at our TNP page.
The WGM details page is really hard (ok, impossible) to find on the HL7.org web site so I thought I would put as link here on the NeoTool blog. (Source: NeoTool Healthcare IT Blog)
Source: NeoTool Healthcare IT Blog - May 5, 2008 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Dave Shaver Tags: HL7 Standard Source Type: blogs
Pda phones as a cheap medical imaging device?
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Post from: The Palmdoc Chronicles
Medgadget has this article about Cheaper Methods for Remote Medical Imaging
The idea is to perform the heavy processing bit in a central server and thus enable the system to quickly transmit the image to the remote device.
I still think the screen needs to be of a decent size in order to make out details. I don’t think I could view a CT scan image say on a Treo! Even the iPhone’s screen which is bigger may not be good enough.
There are some things which just can’t replace the work station IMO! (Source: The Palmdoc Chronicles)
Source: The Palmdoc Chronicles - May 5, 2008 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: palmdoc Tags: Medical/PDA Source Type: blogs
Cardiology search
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CardiologySearch.com searches only peer reviewed trusted Cardiology Journals like JACC, EHJ, AHJ, NEJM, JAMA, BMJ, TheLancet etc. (Source: Dr. Subrahmanyam Karuturi)
Source: Dr. Subrahmanyam Karuturi - May 5, 2008 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Dr.Subrahmanyam Karuturi Source Type: blogs
Nehta needs to follow this example – or something like it!
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Canadian Infoway released this a few days ago. Industry leaders form task force to align on electronic health record standards May 1, 2008 - Focused on the acceleration of electronic health records, industry leaders from Canada Health Infoway (Infoway), Canadian Healthcare Information Technology Trade Association (CHITTA, the Health Division of Information Technology Association of Canada (ITAC)), and the Association of Health Technology Industry (AITS) announced today they have formed a task force to accelerate and promote the transition to a new set of pan-Canadian health information technology standards. The task force ...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - May 5, 2008 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Aus HIT Man Source Type: blogs
Cheaper methods for remote medical imaging
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Researchers from the University of California at Berkeley and Hebrew University of Jerusalem developed a computational technique that could bring diagnostic medical imaging to poorer and more remote communities. The method is based on technology that quickly transmits medical images from devices by moving the image processing tasks, which typically require a great deal of calculations, to a remote server.
Most medical imaging devices, said Rubinsky, consist of three essential components: the data acquisition hardware that is connected to the patient, the image processing software and a monitor to display the image. When t...
Source: Medgadget - May 5, 2008 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Michael Source Type: blogs
Walking assistant from honda
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Last October we discovered that Honda of Japan is developing a novel walking assistance device, but the details of its functionality were hazy. Finally the company is revealing more and taking the device on the road. Apparently Honda has managed to translate some of their research from the super-awesome (or is that super-creepy?) ASIMO into a "walking assistant device" for the gait-impaired (but still somewhat capable of walking on their own). We'll let Honda PR describe how it works...
The cooperative control technology utilized for this device is a unique Honda innovation achieved through the cumulative study of human w...
Source: Medgadget - May 5, 2008 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Tim Source Type: blogs
Syneron's lipolite receives fda clearance
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Syneron Medical, a company from Israel, just received approval from the FDA to market their new minimally invasive laser-assisted lypolysis machine, in which laser heats, destroys, and coagulates subdermal tissue.
From the press release:
For patients, LipoLite is both a minimally invasive alternative and a complement to traditional liposuction fat-removing procedures. The procedure requires only local anesthetic and is designed to provide patients lasting results with little downtime and a high level of safety. For physicians, the small, compact LipoLite system is comfortable to use, upgradeable to support future applica...
Source: Medgadget - May 5, 2008 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Michael Source Type: blogs
Mit tech review talks to systems biologist leroy hood
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Biotech pioneer Dr. Leroy Hood, who is also president and co-founder of the Institute for Systems Biology in Seattle, recently gave an interview to the MIT Tech Review.
A snippet:
TR: You've said that solutions to biological complexity will be applied to complex problems in other fields. Can you explain what you mean by this?
LH: Evolution has had four billion years to figure out really clever solutions for new materials, new chemistries, new types of molecular machines, even new approaches to computing. I think by studying living organisms and deducing the mechanisms that underlie these evolutionarily sculpted solution...
Source: Medgadget - May 5, 2008 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Michael Source Type: blogs
