POSTS TAGGED AS Health IT

IBM’s World Initiative on Health IT

IBM recently committed $100m to several initiatives over the next three years that focus on systems integration, services research, [MORE]

Acoustic Sigh

Engineers as universities in England and Italy have developed a device that uses laser sensors, cameras, GPS, and directional sounds-not [MORE]

Aneesh Chopra Appointed Chief Technology Officer

At the 2008 Medical Automation Conference, then Secretary of Technology for the Commonwealth of Virginia, Aneesh Chopra, gave a keynote address [MORE]

Noninvasive Device to Detect Congestive Heart Failure

Three years ago, researchers in Israel developed a novel technique that relies on electrical impedance to image internal organs.  Some [MORE]

OB Cell Phone Application

AirStrip, Inc. (San Antonio, TX) has recently received FDA approval for its obstetrics application used on the Apple iPhone.  This [MORE]

Maryland Health Information Exchange

Several healthcare providers in Maryland-Johns Hopkins, MedStar, University of Maryland, and Erickson Retirement Communities-are undertaking an IT system that allows [MORE]

Army’s Medical Speech Recognition System

The US Army has deployed to its physicians the Dragon Medical Speech Recognition System that allows doctors to speak their [MORE]

Ups and Downs in Storefront Clinics

Telemedicine is still looking for its economic footing.  CVS Caremark is temporarily closing ninety of its 550 MinuteClinics now that [MORE]

Computer Models of Nutrition

VTT, the Finish-based research collaborative, has launched a computer modeling program called “Etherpaths” that predicts the nutritional effects of food [MORE]

US Spending on Healthcare

In the three-quarters of a trillion dollar economic stimulus President-elect Obama is proposing, about $100 billion is slated for healthcare-roughly [MORE]