Medicine Digest
NFL concussions will, in the future, be treated in part using an iPad app. Image via Locker Smash
(ED: The recent tragic suicides of Junior Seau, et al, has brought attention to the cerebral effects on football players brains during their careers, and there seems to be a call for closer ...
Wednesday, September 24, 2014
Most patients believe they should be able to use technology to determine their diagnoses, undergo remote medical tests and access their electronic health records, but physicians do not always agree, according to a recent WebMD survey, MobiHealthNewsreports.
November 15, 2014
Humans could be much more efficient communicators if they could bypass language altogether and directly transmit thoughts, ideas and instructions from one brain to another. Scientists have demonstrated that instant brain-to-brain communication could become a reality with the ...The Mobile MIM app for the iPad and iPhone. It took the FDA two years to clear this software, and its one of only a handful of apps that have gone through this process. (Photo: MIM Software)
Mark Cain got his big break on June 9, 2008. The chief technology officer at a li...
November 20, 2015
An insulin pill being developed at UC Santa Barbara shows early promise as a novel form of diabetes therapy. The capsules are filled with mucoadhesive patches; © Sonia Fernandez
An insulin pill being developed by researchers at UC Santa Barbara may in the near fu...
October 25, 2014
A new study from UCLA found that a drug being evaluated to treat an entirely different disorder helped slow the progression of Parkinsons disease in mice.The study, published in the October edition of the journal Neurotherapeutics, found that the drug, AT2101, ...
NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – Researchers from the Epi4K consortium and the Epilepsy Phenome/Genome Project have identified mutations in nine genes linked to two childhood forms of epilepsy, they reported in an online, earlyNature paper...
Harvard Stem Cell Institute (HSCI) researchers, representing five Harvard departments and affiliated institutions as well as the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), have demonstrated that adult cells, reprogrammed into another cell type in a living animal, can remain fu...
(ED: This unpaid editing job allow free use of the English language, with using borderline obscene terms to describe something; I feel that, really and truly, digitalization is damn goosing research, to do smaller and better things)
A look behind Second Sights Argus II eye prosthetic t...
: MEDCITYNEWS.COM
October 14, 2013 by Andrey Ostrovsky, MD
Digital health startups secured $1.4 billion in investment in 2012 with healthcare administration, personal-health, and consumer-engagement emerging as some of the leading investment categories.[1] Despite the growing inte...
January 14, 2016
The phrase Brave New World has become one of the most often used clichés in medical technology in recent years. Google the title of Aldous Huxleys 1932 dystopian, and anticipatory, novel with the word medicine and 2,940,000 results appear.
But could ...
(ED NOTE: Never have we seen such a dire picture painted of EMRs, forcing us to almost consider, going to Omar, the cross-eyed Swami, for a solution.) There are three options:
1) Epic, Cerner, etc. hire Roheet, of The Biopsy, to change the whole damn thing, a start being to simplify th...
(ED: Simon really puts Digital Health in perspective. It is not just about new gadgets, apps, systems, but about how people leverage those tools, including EHRs)
Simon P. Ip*
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By Clarice Africa | 30 July 2013 | Views: 363
Singhealth, Singapore’s largest health, group launched today a new smartphone application called “Nurses Pal” which is designed to increase the productivity and efficiency of more than 7000 nurses and trainees.
“Nurses Pal...
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02.08.13 Next-generation drugs designed to fight Alzheimer’s disease look very promising. Scientists have unveiled the mechanisms behind two classes of compound currently being tested in clinical trials. They have also identified a likely cause of early-onset hereditary forms of the disease....
(ED; Fierce Medical is one the top online medical technolgy newsites on the Web, so this list is very credible)
February 19, 2013The word techie gets tossed around in many different contextsIT workers, programmers, video game junkies and webaholics. Equally varied in meaning is biotech, which ...From FitBit to Misfit, the market for wearable sensors is increasing dramatically and not just for personal fitness and wellness. New devices are being designed on an almost-weekly basis to help people manage chronic conditions, recover more quickly from injuries, analyze physical and environ...