POSTS TAGGED AS medical technology

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
DNA Nanosensors
Medical Center researchers reported on their nanosensor approach which [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

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

Excellence in Medical Technology Award

The Kerrin Rennie Award in Medical Technology, given at the Medical Technology Association of Australia meeting in Sydney last month [MORE]