Corrente (Free subscription) | yesterday
Single Payer Activists to Congress: Defeat Democratic Health Bill The Democratic health care bill is a massive bailout of the private health insurance industry. It is convoluted and complicated. And it should be defeated. Healthcare information technology has not saved hospitals money, report says read more
Medgadget (Free subscription) | yesterday
At next week's annual RSNA (Radiological Society of North America) meeting, Diagnosoft out of Morrisville, NC and Palo Alto, CA will be showing off its new MRI technique for measuring the myocardial dynamics. The SENC method is currently available on certain Philips MRI scanners, but can be adopted to machines made by other firms. Strain-encoding, or SENC, is a new MRI technique that will help physicians...
Medgadget (Free subscription) | yesterday
The results from a three year clinical trial of Abbott's bioabsorbable drug eluting stent are in, and they look quite promising. The first 30 patients in the phase I of the ABSORB trial demonstrated "no blood clots (stent thrombosis) and no new major adverse cardiac events after six months (3.6 percent at three years)," according to a company representative. Furthermore, we are being told...
Medgadget (Free subscription) | yesterday
Glowing in the dark has always been contributed to people exposed to radiation in cartoons (think Homer Simpson) and in popular myths about nuclear accidents (Chernobyl). Turns out we all glow continuously, but with a diurnal rhythm, as long as we have a powerful enough digital camera to detect the luminescence. A team of Japanese scientists used a light-proof room to detect photon activity coming...
Medgadget (Free subscription) | yesterday
Boston Scientific has announced that its WallFlex® Fully Covered Esophageal Stent received 510(k) clearance from the FDA as well as EU's CE Mark of approval. The stent is designed for esophageal strictures caused by cancer of the esophagus. The use of stents can re-open a blocked esophagus, allowing patients to consume solids and liquids once again. More from the press release: The WallFlex Fully...
Medgadget (Free subscription) | yesterday
Though DNA inside cells gets regularly damaged, errors are typically quickly reset by a still poorly understood molecular mechanism. It has been suspected that repair enzymes actually walk the length of the DNA molecule fixing errors along the way. But the number of base pairs within each gene can be a million long, necessitating a smarter, more selective approach. Now researchers at University of...
Medgadget (Free subscription) | yesterday
University of Florida Researcher Huikai Xie is working on an endoscopic imaging technique using a tiny infrared scanning technology that, when placed near the surface of a tissue, moves rapidly back and forth to not only provide high resolution images of epithelial tissue, but also peer immediately underneath it. Xie and his team have already published forty papers on the research and recently founded...
Medgadget (Free subscription) | yesterday
The University of Utah's Genetic Science Learning Center has developed a fun flash application that allows you to quickly zoom from a coffee bean to a carbon atom to see the relative size of cells, cellular components, pathogens, small molecules, and more. From the University of Utah: The smallest objects that the unaided human eye can see are about 0.1 mm long. That means that under the right conditions,...
The Healthcare IT Guy (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009
This week The New York Times reported in Little Benefit Seen, So Far, in Electronic Patient Records that: The nation is set to begin an ambitious program, backed by $19 billion in government incentives, to accelerate the adoption of computerized patient records in doctors’ offices and hospitals, replacing ink and paper. There is wide agreement that [...]
Medgadget (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
Here's another piece of news about medical gadgetry released at the ongoing Medica 2009. The Infinity M540 from Drägerwerk AG & Co. (aka Dräger) is designed to provide portability and full functionality of a stationary vitals signs monitor: The Dräger Infinity M540 measures and saves patient vital signs data, including 12-lead ECG and etCO2 values. For transport, the hospital staff...
Medgadget (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
We are pleased to announce that we now have an adequate number of entries for this year's Sci Fi Writing Contest. But if you are a talented writer, the opportunity is still here, and you still can win a brand new Amazon Kindle. So get your talent and imagination together, write a short interesting fictional piece involving the future of medicine, and send it to us by Tuesday, November 24, 2009. This...
Medgadget (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
We are continuing to profile the latest gadgets that are being showcased at the Medica 2009 in Düsseldorf. This beautiful line of cold OR light systems, appropriately dubbed Polaris, comes from Drägerwerk AG & Co., a company better known to everyone as Dräger. Details from the press release: Compared with conventional light sources, the smaller LEDs of the Polaris system are considerably...
Medgadget (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
RANDOX Laboratories, a diagnostics company from Crumlin, UK, is releasing in Düsseldorf at Medica 2009 a new semi-automated analyzer that can perform detection of up to 12 analytes from a single patient sample in under 20 minutes. The Evidence MultiStat™ can save lives of cardiac patients or identify drug junkies, hence it can be used in emergency rooms, cardiology departments, ambulatory...
Medgadget (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
At the ongoing Medica 2009 in Düsseldorf, Esaote out of Genoa, Italy is releasing a new portable ultrasound system that features a 12 inch touch screen for manipulating settings without having to use buttons. The My Lab One can be worn on a shoulder strap and is designed for mobile applications such as ambulatory anesthesia, EMT, military and sports medicine. From the press release: The automatic...
Medgadget (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
Safe Life Corporation (San Diego, CA) recently released a new respirator that looks and feels more like a traditional surgical face mask. We received a copy of the A400 respirator for review and spent about a half hour wearing it to see how it feels. The new Safe Life A400 N95 Respirator can filter 95 percent of the airborne particles that can carry viruses, bacteria and other pathogens, while looking...
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OmniMD | 11/10/2009
Tarrytown, NY - OmniMD, one of the leading healthcare information technology companies, which provides Electronic Medical Records (EMR), Practice Management (PMS) and other Healthcare IT products and services to the providers and clinics across the nation, has announced today that Walker Family Medicine (WFM) located in Willcox, Arizona has adopted the companys EMR and PMS solution in order to improve...
bharatbook | 10/06/2009
Bharatbook.com included "Global Healthcare Information Technology (2009 - 2014)" report which analyzes the market dynamics exclusively from the industry point of view. Global Healthcare Information Technology (2009 - 2014) The market research report analyses the key trends in global the healthcare information technology market, and segments it into various submarkets as per their sizes in various geographies.
OmniMD | 09/02/2009
Tarrytown, NY - OmniMD, one of the leading healthcare information technology companies, which provides Electronic Medical Records (EMR), Practice Management (PMS) and other Healthcare IT products and services to the providers and clinics across the nation, has announced today that Walker Family Medicine (WFM) located in Willcox, Arizona has adopted the company’s EMR and PMS solution in order to improve...
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