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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on 11-07-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Other Items of Interest, EMR, Medical Records, EHR, healthcare IT, Harvard Medical School, Nuance, Beth Israel Deaconess of Boston, Speech Recognition, EScription, BIDMC, John Halamka
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...
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on 10-15-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Pharma/FDA News, Other Items of Interest, Harvard Medical School, Blood, serum, Hepatitis B, plasma, egg beater
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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The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck
on 10-03-2008
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
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. ...
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on 08-22-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Other Items of Interest, EMR, Medical Records, EHR, Harvard Medical School, Harvard, Dashboard, Beth Israel Deasoness Medical Center
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...
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on 07-21-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Other Items of Interest, DNA, Genomics, Genes, Cancer, Harvard Medical School, Science
Hollywood writers working with AARP to create material to bring to focus the problems of US Healthcare...and are asking groups to come forward with information...ironically the producer of Law and Order is a pediatrician who attended Harvard Medical School, so there's a real interest on his part...