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The Challenges of Adopting Medical Technology
The medical community typically does not adopt new technologies as rapidly as other industries. Christopher Wasden, MBA, Managing Director, Health [MORE]
MUSING - The Howze Effect
Harvard Professor Clayton Christensen coined “disruptive innovation” in 1997 to signifying something that unexpectedly changes a market. The glucose meter, [MORE]
Dark Daily, Clinical Laboratory and Pathology News
In 1995, R. Lewis Dark started an “intelligence” gathering service about laboratory and pathology news that today comes in the [MORE]
MUSING - Automation as a Bridge
Whether or not healthcare insurance reform proceeds in Congress, true healthcare reform is proceeding. Its sources are molecular [MORE]
Roadmapping Robotics’ Directions
What are the critical capabilities for the future of medical and healthcare robots? Here are some: intuitive human-robot interaction, [MORE]
Rapidly Growing Medical Automation Market
Wellesley, MA-based BCC Research is projecting that the market for medical automation technologies, products and services with rise from $13.1B [MORE]
Panasonic Medical Robot
Japanese electronics giant announced in July that it was entering the medical robotics field with a robot that stores drugs [MORE]
Technology Review: Mobile Tech
What is the world’s largest wireless carrier? Perhaps not surprisingly, it is China Mobile. But it may come as a [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]
Device Advice
There aren’t many, if any, better sources of information about medical devices than the FDA’s website “Device Advice.” It gives [MORE]
Richard Stein Develops Mathematical Model for Micropumps in Medical Diagnostics
Determining the residual viral load after antiviral therapies is a difficult problem. However, Richard Stein, at the Fraunhofer Institute for [MORE]
RAND-Europe Study on RFID in Healthcare
The independent research organization, RAND, has prepared a downloadable study of RFID applications in healthcare, with cost-benefit comparisons for different [MORE]
Personal Medical Monitoring
Home Health Monitor
Tagline searches for new ideas in personal medical monitoring, but Emily Singer’s piece in the Technology Review on [MORE]
Aneesh Chopra, Chief Technology Officer
On Saturday, Apr. 18, during his radio address, President Obama named Virginia’s Secretary of Technology, Aneesh Chopra, as the White [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]
RFID Studies
The Europe’s Information Society has an online studies about RFID solutions: most relevant areas for deployment; enablers, obstacles, and uncertainties; [MORE]
Robotic Eating Aid
Bestic is a Swedish company that makes a robotic arm to assist a disabled person with eating. It can cut [MORE]
Nursing Technologies
In a report that addresses eight technologies-such as electronic medication administration with bar coding and wireless patient monitoring solutions, the [MORE]
Three New Texts on Medical Automation
Systems Engineering Approaches to Medical Automation, Robin Felder and Majd Alwan, Editors (ISBN 978-1-59693-164-0, from Artechhouse.com, 2009);
LifeScience Automation Fundamentals and [MORE]