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Category Archives: e-Health
A Broken Bone? 3-D Print Your Cast!
Recently there had been some bad vibes around 3-D printers due to all the reports that you can now download files to print your own (working) guns. But this new development is rather fascinating: As the Daily Mail in its … Continue reading
Posted in e-Health, New and Noteworthy, Unusual
Tagged 3D printing, Bone fracture, Cortex, Health, Jake Evill
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Data Are Growing Up: The Big Data Tsunami
When our information systems started to grow and a few tables were not able to hold the (mostly numerical) information we started to build databases. When databases became too small to contain all the information we were dealing with or … Continue reading
Five Tech Trends Impacting Business Innovation in 2012
Tim Sweeney wrote in January a blog on Innovation Excellence on this year’s tech trends. I only recently stumbled on his article and think it is worth sharing. I want to especially point to his report on apps and technologies … Continue reading
Posted in e-Health, New and Noteworthy
Tagged Cloud computing, Health, MHealth, Service innovation
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BrailleTouch keyboard allows typing on a phone without looking
By Ryan Paul | Published about a month ago A group of researchers at Georgia Tech have created a new piece of software called BrailleTouch that allows users to type on a smartphone without looking at the screen. It takes … Continue reading
Posted in e-Health, New and Noteworthy, Open Systems
Tagged Android, Braille, iPhone, Open source, Typing, YouTube
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‘Open-Source’ Robotic Surgery Platform
From eHealthServer.com: Robotics experts at the University of California, Santa Cruz and the University of Washington (UW) have completed a set of seven advanced robotic surgery systems for use by major medical research laboratories throughout the United States. After a round … Continue reading
Posted in e-Health, New and Noteworthy, Open Systems
Tagged Open source, Open Systems, Robotics, Surgery
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Smart Pill “Phones Home” From the Stomach to Remind You to Take Your Medicine
A smart pill with ‘edible microchip’ tells you and your doctor when the next dose is due: A patch on the skin will pick up a signal once tablet is swallowed and relay this to a smart phone The system … Continue reading
Posted in e-Health, New and Noteworthy
Tagged Health, Heart disease, Patient, Smartphone, Tablet
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Telekinetics? Bed-Bound Patients Move Robots Using Just Thoughts
“They’re not quite psychic yet, but machines are getting better at reading your mind. Researchers have invented a new, noninvasive method for recording patterns of brain activity and using them to steer a robot. Scientists hope the technology will give … Continue reading
Star Trek’s ‘Tricorder’ Device Coming Soon?
Star Trek’s Dr. “Bones” McCoy made no bones about the state of 20th Century medicine — invasive, primitive, “Dark Ages,” were a few of his pejorative terms for modern medicine. In the 23rd century, Bones and other starship crew members … Continue reading
Posted in e-Health, New and Noteworthy
Tagged Star Trek, Telemedicine, telemonitoring, Tricorder, X Prize Foundation
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Wireless Health Care
Just read a very interesting article on “ambient health monitoring”. Joseph M. Smith wrote in IEEE Spectrum an article on Wireless Health Care. Here a few passages from the article: “Imagine a world in which your medicine cabinet notices that … Continue reading
Posted in e-Health, New and Noteworthy
Tagged Health care, IEEE Spectrum, Medicine, Telemedicine
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’10-Cent Medical Checkup’ Using Cell Phones?
Caltech runs a Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) program where students work on special projects. As part of a cell phone medicine project, the students have spent their summer developing and fine-tuning prototypes that could someday enable a 10-cent medical checkup for … Continue reading
Posted in e-Health, New and Noteworthy
Tagged Cell Phones, eHealth, Mobile phone, telemonitoring
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New Human-Computer Interface: Stick-On Electronic Tattoos
Technology makes interesting inroads in medicine. Not only in electronic patient records and e-prescription but also in connecting patients to instrumentation and in tele-monitoring. “Researchers have made stretchable, ultrathin electronics that cling to skin like a temporary tattoo and can … Continue reading
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“You Have Zero Privacy Anyway — Get Over It” (Really?)
Scott McNeally has been quoted many times with this (in)famous phrase from 1999. But as Steven Cherry discusses is his podcast (mp3) The Car as Informant – IEEE Spectrum “even he (Scott) would be surprised at the extent to which we can now be tracked, … Continue reading
Posted in e-Health, Identity Management, Internet, Security, Social Media
Tagged Federation, Information separation, Kantara Initiative, Liberty Alliance, Privacy
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Your Identity In the Palm Of Your Hand
Hospital scans palms to track patients | SmartPlanet. Quote from the article: “A New York City hospital is using patients’ palms, not insurance cards, to pull records, according to a new report. “The New York University Langone Medical Center started scanning palms … Continue reading
“Facebook Light” For Elderly, Dementia Patients
Quoted from: “Facebook Light” For Elderly, Dementia Patients in Works (emaxhealth.com) “Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg probably never had this in mind when he came up with the phenomenally popular social network, but researchers are developing a type of “Facebook Light” for the … Continue reading
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Tagged Dementia, Facebook, SINTEF, Social media, Social network
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