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dbMotion Receives Healthcare IT Summit "Innovation Award"
Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News - Friday, November 21, 2008 12:00:00 AM
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Early Warning System To Predict Flash Floods
Medical News Today - Friday, November 21, 2008 11:00:00 AM
Flash floods are the most common natural disaster in the United States, and because of their unpredictability they're the leading weather-related cause of death for Americans. They usually arrive with little or no warning, but a Tel Aviv University researcher is trying to predict where and when they will occur... more
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Quantum Computers Could Excel In Modeling Chemical Reactions
Medical News Today - Friday, November 21, 2008 12:00:00 PM
Quantum computers would likely outperform conventional computers in simulating chemical reactions involving more than four atoms, according to scientists at Harvard University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Haverford College. Such improved ability to model and predict complex chemical reactions could revolutionize drug design and materials science, among other ... more
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Siemens And Asklepios Expand Cooperation In The IT Sector
Medical News Today - Friday, November 21, 2008 1:00:00 PM
Siemens Healthcare and the Asklepios Hospitals will continue to deepen their cooperation in the information technology (IT) sector. The hospital information system i.s.h.med, installed to date in eight major hospitals of the Asklepios hospital chain, will be expanded by adding elements that further enhance its performance, including a modern user... more
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Harnessing Nature's Diagnostic Tools For Disease Prevention
Medical News Today - Friday, November 21, 2008 8:00:00 AM
The earlier cancer is diagnosed, the better the chance of effecting a cure. A revolutionary new hybrid technology offers the possibility of detecting this and other diseases right at inception. Within a few years, when the technology comes to market, every doctor's surgery could have a small,... more
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Surgeons Perform World's First Pediatric Robotic Bladder Reconstruction
Medical News Today - Friday, November 21, 2008 8:00:00 AM
A 10-year-old Chicago girl born with an abnormally small bladder that made her incontinent has become the first patient to benefit from a new robotic-assisted bladder-reconstruction method developed by surgeons at the University of Chicago Medical Center. The surgeons describe their innovative technique in the December 2008... more
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Laparoscopic Heller Myotomy Esophagea A Minimally Invasive Surgery To Treat Achalasia
Medical News Today - Friday, November 21, 2008 9:00:00 AM
OR-Live Webcast From Northwestern Memorial Hospital: December 2, 2008, 3:00 PM CST. Achalasia is a rare esophageal disease that effects thousands of people in the United States, most of whom are in their 20s to 50s, and often presents ... more
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ORNL supercomputer simulation wins prize for fastest-running science application
Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News - Thursday, November 20, 2008 12:00:00 AM
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Seeing is Believing: Visual Diagnostic Decision Support
Health-IT World - Thursday, November 20, 2008 12:00:00 AM
Digital HealthCare & Productivity | Studies show that nearly 20 percent of all medical diagnoses and 60 percent of prescribed treatments are incorrect. Given that half of all diseases present with a visual marker, and 10 to 20 percent of a general practitioner’s clinical diagnoses are visually based,... more
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Data identified as key factor in PBC failure
EHI Primary Care - Friday, November 21, 2008 12:00:05 AM
Lack of high quality data is one of the key factors behind the poor progress of practice-based commissioning, the King's Fund has ... more
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Intel personal health management system
E-Health-Insider - Friday, November 21, 2008 12:00:05 AM
A home medical device, designed to be part of a remote personal home care management system for people with chronic conditions, has been launched by ... more
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Quantum computers could excel in modeling chemical reactions
Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News - Thursday, November 20, 2008 12:00:00 AM
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UC San Diego announces collaboration with Johnson & Johnson Pharmaceutical Research & Development
Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News - Thursday, November 20, 2008 12:00:00 AM
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Simulations Plus Signs Another Collaboration Agreement
Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News - Thursday, November 20, 2008 12:00:00 AM
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Evidence Of Gulf War Syndrome Isolated By Deep Brain Mapping
Medical News Today - Thursday, November 20, 2008 2:00:00 PM
Researchers at Southern Methodist University in Dallas are pioneering the use of spatial statistical modeling to analyze brain scan data from Persian Gulf War veterans, aiming to pinpoint specific areas of the their brains affected by Gulf War ... more
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GE To Partner With Medical Institutions, Spend $200M Over Five Years To Develop Electronic Systems For Medical Information, Patient Records
Medical News Today - Thursday, November 20, 2008 2:00:00 PM
General Electric and GE Healthcare officials on Tuesday at a conference in New York City announced plans to partner with several U.S. medical institutions on an effort to develop a national electronic health record system, ... more
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Patient Information Could Be Left To Haemorrhage From Mobile Devices, Survey Shows
Medical News Today - Thursday, November 20, 2008 10:00:00 AM
A transatlantic survey of more than a thousand healthcare professionals has shown that over a third are unwittingly putting personal information at risk by storing patient records, medical images, contact details, corporate data and other sensitive information on mobile devices such as laptops, BlackBerrys and USB sticks - and not... more
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E-Detailing And ROI: Planning, Metrics, And Best Practices
Medical News Today - Thursday, November 20, 2008 10:00:00 AM
The state of the pharmaceutical union has meant massive marketing effort put toward detailing, but a dramatically less receptive audience. This is changing as sales forces around the world are being slashed. e-Detailing represents a way to maximize sales force efforts, cut costs and increase both interaction with physicians and... more
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Technology May Provide Means Of Testing Anti-Aging Drugs
Medical News Today - Thursday, November 20, 2008 11:00:00 AM
Scientists at the Buck Institute for Age Research have identified for the first time biomarkers of aging which are highly predictive of both chronological and physiological age. Biomarkers are biochemical features that can be used to measure the progress of disease or the effects of treatment. The research involves nematode... more
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How Brain Interprets Natural Scenes: Carnegie Mellon Theory Of Visual Computation
Medical News Today - Thursday, November 20, 2008 12:00:00 PM
Computational neuroscientists at Carnegie Mellon University have developed a computational model that provides insight into the function of the brain's visual cortex and the information processing that enables people to perceive contours and surfaces, and understand what they see in the world around them. A type of... more
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