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Means of Revolutionizing Healthcare

Ai supports healthcare
Artificial intelligence and machine learning are the heart of advancing healthcare as this piece illustrates—in speeding up administrative [MORE]

Medical Drone, Carrying Lab Specimens, Crashes

Drone transports donated kidney
Here’s the good news and the bad.  In the more recent story a drone was able to [MORE]

Innovation in the Core Lab

AACC lab at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center.
Laboratory automation has already proved its worth, particularly in some Japanese hospitals, regarding the human [MORE]

Hospitals’ 10 Worst Case Events

Joint Commission
Here are the Joint Commission’s voluntarily submitted sentinel events in healthcare for 2018:  Falls — 111 reported; Unintended retention [MORE]

Patch that Monitors In-Patient Repositioning to Prevent Pressure Ulcers

Leaf patient monitoring for positioning
Turning bed-ridden patients is a standard job for nursing, particularly in nursing homes.  This may been [MORE]

Relay Robots in Hospital Service

Medical automation company Swisslog (US hqs, Bloomfield, CO) and robot maker Savioke (San Jose, CA) have collaborated to install autonomous [MORE]

The Future of Mobile Devices for Hospitals

Wearable Device for Health Monitoring
How common will mobile medical devices be—e.g. wearables for pre-admission, admission, and post-discharge patient monitoring; telecom [MORE]

Most Common Objectives of Telemedicine

Telemedicine
According to this piece the ten most common objectives in telemedicine are: increasing patient engagement and satisfaction; improving patient convenience; [MORE]

Hopkins Pathologists Set New Record for Medical Delivery Drone

Delivery Distance Record for Medical Drones
Will flying drones become the best delivery system for pathology specimens in the 21st century? [MORE]

Lab Automation in a Nutshell

Lab Automation
This piece is a masterpiece infographic—about the history, issues, costs and benefits of laboratory automation, leaving us wishing for [MORE]

Hospital Metrics: Targets for Improvement

Scott Becker, J.D., C.P.A.
“The list king,” Scott Becker, has another of his insightful listings of hospital metrics—this one, 230 hospital [MORE]

This Year’s Award Winners in Telemedicine

Telemedicine
Over the last 20 years, telemedicine has demonstrated not only hundreds of useful applications, but also hinted at a new [MORE]

World’s First Portable Whole-Body CT Scanner

Body Tom Portable CT
As this piece describes it: “BodyTom, the world’s first portable, full-body, 32-slice CT scanner, is a multi-departmental [MORE]

Rise of Microhospitals

SCLHealth Microhospital
In the hospital industry, inpatient admissions are dropping and outpatient numbers are rising. This is partly due to dramatic [MORE]