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Innovation and Affordable Care?

Dutch electronics giant, Royal Philips, has entered into a fifteen year collaboration, worth $300m, with Georgia Regents Medical Center [MORE]

Selling Patient Data

Patient privacy laws protect people from having their medical records sold by doctors and hospitals.  But state agencies which [MORE]

Disinfecting Robots for Hospital Housekeeping

Xenex UV-Disinfection System
Clostridium difficile is one of the most persistent pathogens in hospital acquired infections. Alcohol-based hand sanitizers are [MORE]

A Digital Health Accelerator

Healthcare-oriented investors in Spartanburg, SC are creating a digital health accelerator in a location called “The Iron Yard.”  Proponents [MORE]

Human Factors in Patient Satisfaction

Case managers often do a juggling act between their own responsibilities and those of the emergency department physicians and [MORE]

Nursing with Robots

Don’t call nurses Luddites, according to this piece: “More than half of healthcare providers interviewed said that if they [MORE]

RFID Monitor for Hand-Washing

RFID Handwashing Monitor
Sarasota, FL-based IntelligentM has introduced and RFID and accelerometer bracelet that doctors and nurses wear to monitor [MORE]

GE Developing Surgical Tool-Handling Robot

SURGICAL SYSTEM REVENUE
Surgery is the mainstay of hospital revenue, and most facilities have dozens of operating rooms, altogether [MORE]

Robotic Nursing Assistant

KIRO-M5 Robot
Though this robot looks like “R2D2,” its name is “KIRO-M5” and weighs in at 176 lbs.  It can [MORE]

Predictive Modeling for CHF Readmissions

With changing CMS rules on hospital readmissions, Intermountain Health Center (Salt Lake City, UT) has developed a [MORE]

Perspective on Wireless

Potential Hospital Hub
This piece offers an overview of wireless LAN, Bluetooth, and Bluetooth low energy technologies, pointing out different [MORE]

Understanding Medicare

It was an interesting contrast, between the UK celebrating its National Health Insurance in the opening ceremonies of the [MORE]

Robotic Inventory Control

Iventory-Taking Robot in Hoodie
So far, hospitals have only begun to glimpse the advantages of real time location systems and [MORE]

Automated Bed

OHEA Automated Bed
Be sure to see the video in this piece, “The Bed that Makes Itself.”  Then note [MORE]