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It has been a big day at Stanford with genomics, not only was the announcement made to better use sequencing to predict own syndrome, but they are also just about ready to receive their new genomic sequencing machine from Helicos. Earlier this year I interviewed Dr. Patrice Milos, Chief Science...
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This is probably one of the sweetest subsidized arrangements with 60% of the cost being absorbed by the hospital, which is by the way one of the best in Orange County and I have worked on fundraisers for the hospital in the past. Doctors choosing ECW will have remote access using the application...
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Nice picture on the tablet – a demonstration of synapses in the brain, and we all know how important Tablet PCs are to health care. A couple weeks ago I posted about his presentation at MIT , where there were a number of software and hardware .png?imgmax=800" width="124" align="left" alt="" />products...
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This is pretty wild technology to say the least, a robot suit that will increase your mobility power up to 10 times of what you normally have. The rates certainly are not cheap to rent one of these and is charged “by the leg”. I wonder what it would do for those who have great muscle power...
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Hard Hat Area: If are thinking about learning more about Silverlight need some material, this is the place for the books, new website called: http://www.silverlightbooks.net/ . If are a developer with medical software, perhaps looking at the Common User Interface, this could...
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Previously he has donated $20 million to Stanford for the Lorry I. Lokey Laboratory Building, which houses research labs for the departments of Chemistry and Biological Sciences. He founded Business Wire, the international public relations wire service, in 1961. This furthers his commitment...
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Recently I posted about the Common User Interface from Microsoft and I spoke with a developer in New Zealand, Synapse, who has done some integration work with the interface. Graham Chiu of Synapse, is a physician as well as a developer so he is one busy person and nice to see a physician...
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One more hospital making the transition. Also the rural and surrounding areas will be connected to the same system to enter chart information from their locations as well. The new system from Epic replaces older technology at Mercy called Meditech that only allowed for a partial electronic...
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We are getting closer to the $1,000 genome. Their business though is not to sell the machines, but rather to “wholesale” the process, in other words they will sequence only and offer no interpretations, which would be done by another company they would supply the sequencing information to. ...
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The FDA Sentinel data mining system is still in the beginning stages and the explanation of how it works sounds interesting in the fact that it will be able to query and mine data to create an overall reference, but the article states they are not creating a data base, but more or less a data mining...
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Why? They have money and subsidize the physicians. BD “The hurdle for most smaller physician practices has been the upfront cost,” said Dan Peterson, who oversees ProHealth Care’s EHR Advantage project. ProHealth will lease the software for its electronic health records system to doctors...
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Below we have 2 different physicians, one who embraces technology so much to the fact that she has become an technology evangelist to help and convince other physicians to “buy in”, and she works as an emergency ER physician too. The second physician vowed to keep the paper trail going, that is...
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10-05-2008
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This stands to reduce catheter-related infections with minimizing catheter motion and less needle contact with a reduction in the needs for additional stitches and less use of tape adhesives. This is reported to the the first of it’s kind in the world. BD Interrad Medical, Inc. a privately...
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This is just such a massive improvement to open soon, and going from night to day it deserved some pictures and recognition. Half a million out patients per year are seen here. The opening has been delayed a couple times but it appears it is now on around the first of next month. The...
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10-04-2008
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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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10-03-2008
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Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Other Items of Interest, healthcare, Dicom, PACS, Medical Imaging, MRI, Harvard Medical School, software, CT Scan, MIT, Slice technology, 3D slicer, Collider, Open Source Software