POSTS TAGGED AS medical technology

Nice Suite of Home Monitoring Products

This story is nearly a sponsored advertisement for iSOFT (Sydney, Australia), a maker of home and distance monitoring devices for [MORE]

Partners for Digital Pathology

Dr. Gerd Binning

Royal Philips Electonics, in the Netherlands, and Munich-based Definiens have signed an agreement to pursue molecular imaging.  [MORE]

Join the Discussion - The Impact of Robotics on Healthcare

Question:  Will robotics and automation of service task help meet the challenge of the demographic change world wide affecting the [MORE]

Anti-Bleeding Balloon

Every war produces new medical technology because every war is different.  Afghanistan and Iraq have produced more than their [MORE]

“Now Hear This!, said the Smart Pill to the Cell Phone

In order to track medication adherence, Novartis is experimenting with a smart pill that stomach acid turns into a [MORE]

Wireless Health 2010, October 5-7, San Diego - Call for Papers

Wireless Health 2010 is the first in an annual single-track conference series convening the international research communities in Wireless Health [MORE]

IR Endoscope

Professor Huikai Xie, director of the Biophotonics and Microsystems Laboratory at the University of Florida, has developed an endoscope [MORE]

The Technology Enabled Nurse

Learning objectives:

Identify technologies that demonstrate value by transforming delivery of nursing care.
Describe three or more [MORE]

Telesurgical Robots

Using software developed by the University of Washington’s Biorobotics Lab and SRI, operators at nine different locations (in the US, [MORE]

Nanosensing Pathogens

Lab-on-a-chip technology seems to advance every day.  Recently, University of Rochester
Medical Center researchers reported on their nanosensor approach which employs [MORE]

What you think is the #1 challenge in healthcare today? What medical technology can help to meet those challenges?

With the current raging debate about the American healthcare system, we are hearing  conflicting, sometimes contentious, and frequently emotional viewpoints. [MORE]

21st Century Healthcare: Engineers Wanted

In 1980, the Russian Institute of Eye Microsurgery pioneered the ‘conveyer surgery method’ (1)- wherein several surgeons perform different parts [MORE]

Technology Enabled Nursing

With nearly half of American nurses eligible to retire in the next five years, the need for new nursing technology [MORE]

North Carolina’s Biotech Industry

 Research Triangle Park already is legendary in the story of science-based economic development.  Now a group of town mayors around [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]

Ambient Assisted Living

PERSONA, a project of the European Union that promotes independent aging, has been functioning since 2007 and will continue until [MORE]

Non-Invasive Brain Blood Flow Monitor

Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania’s Comprehensive Neuroscience Center recently demonstrated a non-invasive portable monitor that measures brain blood flow [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]

Presidential Report on Personalized Medicine

In September, the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology published its report “Priorities for Personalized Medicine.”  It reviews [MORE]

Motion Compensating Software for Heart Surgery

In 1953, Ceclia Bavolek was the first patient to have open heart surgery using the heart-lung bypass machine John Gibbon [MORE]