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Connecting Electronic Medical Records (Health)
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Looking out his office window in Seattle, Thomas Payne can see two hospitals that use the same electronic record system as his own. And yet, says Payne, medical director of information technology services at the University of Washington, they all still exchange information by fax or paper.
posted: 15/08/2010
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Tiny Probes Measure Signals Inside Cells (Health)
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Researchers at Harvard University have made biocompatible, nanometer-scaled transistors that can be used to take highly precise electrical and chemical readings inside cells. The bioprobes are much more sensitive than the passive electrodes that have been used to make intracellular measurements in the past.
posted: 15/08/2010
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British patients click online to see doctor (Health)
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In Britain, an increasing number of websites are pushing the boundaries of online medicine, with at least a dozen sites offering consultations and medication most countries only allow during in-person visits - or remote ones with the help of a webcam or telephone call.
posted: 08/08/2010
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Dual-purpose liposome offers intelligent diagnosis, drug delivery (Health)
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Key objectives of modern health care are early and accurate diagnosis of a disease and quick remediation with minimal side effects.
posted: 08/08/2010
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Health care using telephone and telemonitoring technology benefits heart failure patients (Health)
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Providing patients with chronic heart failure access to remote monitoring, for example by telephone or telemonitoring using wireless technology, reduces deaths and hospitalisations and may provide benefits on health care costs and quality of life. These are the conclusions of a new Cochrane Systematic Review by an international team of researchers.
posted: 08/08/2010
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How Wearable Cameras Could Help Diagnose Dementia (Health)
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One of the problems with " life recorders", wearable video cameras that record your every movement, is making sense of the huge datasets they produce. Given a day's worth of inane footage--get up, wander into bathroom, brush teeth etc--what can you usefully do with it?
posted: 08/08/2010
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Study Links More Time Spent Sitting to Higher Risk of Death (Health)
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A new study from American Cancer Society researchers finds it’s not just how much physical activity you get, but how much time you spend sitting that can affect your risk of death.
posted: 25/07/2010
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Students develop a low-cost portable ventilator (Health)
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A team of students from MIT has devised a new low-cost ventilator to keep patients breathing in places that lack standard mechanical ventilators, or during times of emergency such as pandemics or natural disasters, when normal hospital resources may be overextended. They have designed a system that uses the same widely available manual pump — the same type used for the farmer in India. The new system encases the pump in a plastic box with a battery, motor and controls to take the place of the manual compression process.
posted: 18/07/2010
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Insecurities plague electronic health care (Health)
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Information security and privacy in the healthcare sector is an issue of growing importance but much remains to be done to address the various issues raised by healthcare consumers regarding privacy and security and the providers' perspective of regulatory compliance.
posted: 18/07/2010
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Vaccine-delivery patch with dissolving microneedles eliminates 'sharps,' boosts protection (Health)
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A new vaccine-delivery patch based on hundreds of microscopic needles that dissolve into the skin could allow persons without medical training to painlessly administer vaccines - while providing improved immunization against diseases such as influenza.
posted: 18/07/2010
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