POSTS TAGGED AS Medical Automation

Software Change Control in Laboratory Automation

Laboratory Automation System
“At our laboratory, we [informatics managers at Yale New Haven Hospital] implemented a form-based change control process that [MORE]

Pros and Cons of Robotic Medicine

Robots for Healthcare
On the one hand, medical robots increase human productivity and offer a broad platform for innovation (particularly with [MORE]

IBM’s Initiative in “The Imitation Game”

Numenta AI
Recently, Alan Turing’s notebook documenting his “Automatic Computing Engine” sold at auction for $1.025m. This was the machine he [MORE]

Automation Causes Job Losses

Destroying jobs chart
At least since Parson Malthus’ gloomy predictions about population growth, economists have wallowed in dismal forecasting, which [MORE]

MUSINGS – “Firsts”

Tagline isn’t quite as eclectic as seems.  It regularly clips stories about medical devices, telemedicine, robotics, molecular diagnostics and [MORE]

Industrialization of Medicine

Is “evidence-based practice” a fair tradeoff for “clinical judgment?” Does healthcare need to be industrialized and standardized-enabled to run [MORE]

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

Searching the Mobile Web
What is the world’s largest wireless carrier?  Perhaps not surprisingly, it is China Mobile.  But it may [MORE]