(ED NOTE: This blog should be a classic; it is well-known that most of the majors killers in American society are brought on by lifestyle choices; heart disease, pulmonary disease, hypertension, obesity. Digitalization hopes to impact lifestyle choices by using apps, to measure parameters, ho...
: Blog of Lucien Engelen
16 Aug, 13
We all know that healthcare faces huge challenges—budget cuts, increasing demand, and a shortage of skilled personnel. To help find solutions to this, conferences are set up to discuss the changes needed.
But most of these conferences happe...
Telehealth has already helped to transform the way h...
February 26, 2016
Posted on February 17, 2016 by Muin J. Khoury, Director, Office of Public Health Genomics; Rodolfo Valdez, epidemiologist, National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Rare Diseas...
Septermber 14, 2014
If you stop and think about it for a moment, you will realise what an astonishing feat of precision engineering your colour printer is. It can take the primary colours – cyan, yellow, magenta and black – and mix them together carefully enough to achieve more than a m...
Social news-discovery service SmartNews has made its US debut with the release of localized iOS and Androidapps.
...(ED NOTE: The FDA is in a situation, similar to that of Odysseus, in Greek Mythology. Odyssesus, after the Trojan War, back on his way to Ithaca from Troy, had to pass, prudently, through the Straits of Syclla and Charybdis, to continue on his way home; one one side was the monster Scylla, on ...
20 x 20 um Image of a HidroGel, sample courtesy of Romén Rodríguez. The image was adquired in Dynamic Mode with a AppNano Fort tip using a Agilent 5100 AFM. The image was obteined by Maite Simón
And its obvious how this 3D printed image fits into that same field. His unique 3D printed cr...
2013 has been a record year for proposed bills related to telemedicine, said Jonathan Linkous, CEO of the American Telemedicine Association’s monthly webcast—This Month in Telemedicine.
With more than 30 bills on the docket, “it’s a hot ti...
Meaningful Use has put new strains on providers in terms of patient engagement, but these portals help ease the burden, says recent Kaiser Permanente report.
Between Meaningful Use and the concept of accountable care, patient portals went from behind the scenes to front ...
October 18, 2014
He wrote his first world-renowned book at the age of 26. On weekends he recites love poems (ghazals) on Voice of America. He casually – and humbly – references his more than 70 patents that range from aging wine to chewing gum to bioreactors to air sc...
November 7, 2014
(ED NOTE: We include any advances in tech that may impact healthcare in the future and not-so-distant future)
(Nanowerk News) A major showcase of companies developing new technologies from graphene and other two-dimensional materials took place this week at the Cambri...
(ED NOTE: It is a little known fact that Sherlocke Holmes was an avid Apple junkie; Watson used to play a practical joke on Holmes, by hiding it in the drawing room)
Pew Internet.org Susannah Fox
As of September 2012, 81% of U.S. adults use the internet and, of those, 72% say they ha...
Dec 5, 2014 | By Alec
Lately weve been seeing more and more medical applications of 3D printing appearing, many of which are exciting revolutionary prosthetics or implants. Generally, these tend to be made for particularly rare and unfortunate cases that need a unique solution, and 3D prin...
A graphic shows how a microbullet traveling at supersonic speed bursts through a sheet of multilayer graphene, but not before the graphene absorbs much of the energy of the impact. Measurements taken at Rice University show that graphene is 10 times better than steel at absorbing the energy of a...
January 30, 2016
(Nanowerk News) A new type of ultra-thin semiconductor laser under development at The University of Texas at Arlington can be integrated with mainstream electronics on the same silicon substrate with increased capacity and energy efficiency.Weidong Zhou, an...
RICHARD MEYER
SEPTEMBER 23, 2013
In June 2013, CMI/Compas conducted its inaugural Media VitalsTM study to assess the varying key factors of physician engagement across 21 specialties, enabling strategy teams to leverage data about physician‐stated media preferences and behavio...
The researchers found that liquid resin printed materials were particularly toxic (Credit: UCR)
November 4, 2015
A new study from the University of California, Riverside (UCR) has found that some 3D-printed materials are toxic. The tests were conducted on fish embryo...
N Engl J Med
November 7, 2013
Almost all health care is voluntary: patients choose when to engage in care, when to take their medicine (if they choose to take it), and whether to return for follow-up visits. In human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection a...