If you are not aware of how much leading research comes from the facility, check back on a few posts I have done in the past, the HHMI makes a lot of research possible without the red tape and strings that perhaps come along with grants and restrictions from other investors. With the slowing...
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Good article from Dr. Halamka at Beth Israel Medical Center/Harvard in Boston, talking about the positives and money saved by using speech recognition. One other item to mention here from my side of the coin, it makes creating blog entries a lot easier too, and yet I use it! There are more...
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The cost sometime next year though may go down with Complete Genomics and their upcoming offer of $5000.00 to sequence a complete individual DNA. There are some that don’t share the same interest in view of privacy issues, but in my small opinion, privacy is pretty much only existing in the shadows...
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Running short on capital around the office and need an inexpensive diagnostic device for detecting hepatitis? This could be the solution, get an egg beater. Actually this was a report from Harvard on how the device can be used in developing countries where access to more sophisticated equipment...
The 3D Slicer project has been funded primarily by the National Institutes of Health. Slicer is available for Windows, Linux, and Mac operating systems, so it looks like almost everyone is covered here. From the software side of things it has plug-in capabilities that can interoperate with...
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This should come as no surprise as Dr. Halamka has posted about some of this technology in his own blog, which there is a link to on this site and you can also go here to read. Also in the news recently was the availability of another program used called Medpedia from the Medical School. ...
This is very interesting and thanks to Medgadget for finding this one. Will we someday be listening to cancer genes and perhaps others? If you would like to hear what the genes sound like, here’s the page. I do have to say that this is a very interesting concept whereby I wonder if...
Hard Hat Area: Health IT – One of the best benefits, protection from SQL Injection attacks from web applications and of course explicit logging . With technology and the exploits growing at such a rapid pace today outsourcing to the specialty companies who make this their #1 priority and...