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Medical Technologies International, Inc. (MTI), a Palm Desert, CA company, has developed a diagnostic system to detect carotid atherosclerotic vascular disease in very early stages, when intima and media thickness is just a bit off baseline. At the heart of the system is computer software developed read more »
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When a patient arrives at Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas, he or she is now greeted by a computer, The Dallas Morning News is reporting. This electronic processing of patients at Parkland was implemented by the hospital's own IT department with the help of Sand Dune Ventures Inc., a Torrance, read more »
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Leading researchers have appealed to Connecting for Health to put in place better communication methods so that patients understand why and how their medical data could be used for clinical research. read more »
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WBUR, a Boston NPR station, recently profiled the works of the performance artist Lisa Bufano, who they called a "dancer with a difference." Ms. Bufano is a bilateral below the knee, and finger amputee. Photos, slideshow, and radio program can be seen and heard here... (hat tip: Gizmodo)... read more »
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I just finished reading Know Your Numbers, Outlive Your Diabetes: 5 Essential Health Factors You Can Master to Enjoy a Long and Healthy Life by Richard Jackson M.D., from Harvard's Joslin Diabetes Center, and Amy Tenderich, our friend from Diabetes Mine. On the basics, the book is written in a clea read more »
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BT Health's managing director has told MPs that 'lots of factors' are the root cause of delays in implementations at London's acute hospitals, but that the National Programme for IT's (NPfIT) work in the capital should be completed by 2009 with full integration of systems a year later. read more »
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At the Telemedicine & Advanced Technology Research Center at Fort Detrick, Maryland, the US military is testing a novel robot designed to pickup injured soldiers on the battlefield and transport them to a hospital or temporary treatment center. According to the BBC, the robot is designed to be a hu read more »
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Connecting for Health, the Department of Health body responsible for the NHS IT programme, is reported to have warned Computer Sciences Corporation and iSoft that it is prepared to step in and take over development of iSoft's Lorenzo patient record software if the companies cannot resolve differen read more »
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Scientists from the European Molecular Biology Laboratory, the German Institute for Nutrition in Potsdam, and the University of Cincinnati report in the current issue of Cell Metabolism the discovery of a molecule that seems to make some people more fidgety than others, hence influencing their meta read more »
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