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- Today's Debate: How deep should electronic health records be?
- This came in a press release today from Arizona State University. Biomedical informatics is seen as critical to advancing "customized" medicine, in which care is tailored to specific health profiles of individual patients. It is also emerging as an essential tool in federal and state government...
- Tags: Electronic Health Record, Biomedical, Health Care, Biomedical Informatic, E-health, Healthcare, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Business Ethics, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Leadership, Management, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2007-10-01
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- Glaucoma-monitoring contact lenses engineered at UC Davis
- There's nothing I love more than a great tech development from the lab. Researchers at UC Davis have engineered a new material that could make "smart" contact lenses that measure pressure within the eye and dispense medication accordingly possible. Crafted into lenses with a...
- Tags: Eye, Healthcare, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2008-08-06
- The first optical pacemaker
- According to a short news release from the Optical Society of America OSA, an international team of scientists at Osaka University in Japan has used a femtosecond laser pacemaker to control heart muscle cells. So far, this optical pacemaker will only be used for laboratory research. As writes OSA, 'exposing...
- Tags: Heart, Contraction, Laser, Cell, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-05-29
- A robotic brain-computer interface
- California Institute of Technology Caltech engineers have developed a robotic device able to act as a brain-computer interface. This is the 'first robotic approach to establishing an interface between computers and the brain by positioning electrodes in neural tissue.' According to the researchers, their approach 'could enhance the performance and...
- Tags: Algorithm, Electrode, California Institute Of Technology, Positioning, Telecom & Utilities, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-05-21
- Nanorobots to improve health care
- Using nanorobots to deliver drugs and fight diseases is not a new idea check here or there. Of course, nanorobots floating inside our bodies to improve our health are still years away. However, an international team of American and Australian researchers is developing a nanorobot hardware architecture for medical defense...
- Tags: Software, 3D, Protein, Biomedical, Health Care, Hardware Architecture, Healthcare, Nanotechnology, Emerging Technologies, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-05-19
- Model-Based Validation of QoS Properties of Biomedical Sensor Networks
- A Biomedical Sensor Network BSN is a small-size sensor network for medical applications, that may contain tens of sensor nodes. This paper presents a formal model for BSNs using timed automata, where the sensor nodes communicate using the Chipcon CC2420 transceiver developed by Texas Instruments according to the IEEE 802.15.4...
- Tags: QoS, Network, Sensor, Biomedical, Biomedical Sensor Network, Sensor Node, Healthcare
- White papers 2008-04-18
- Internet Captcha (zip)
- Internet Captcha is designed to protect your html forms where users send information to others users or databases. A informatic robot can automatic send a lot of information saturating your system or it can send you spam continuously to publish. With this captcha only human can complete the security code...
- Tags: Daypo, Internet Captcha, Internet, Robots, Emerging Technologies
- Software downloads 2008-04-11
- Beckman Coulter Empowers Sales Force While Maintaining Control of Sensitive Information
- Beckman Coulter, Inc., a leading manufacturer of biomedical testing instrument systems, tests, and supplies, is in the business of simplifying and automating laboratory processes. Beckman Coulter wanted to create an electronic SRM for its team, but needed to ensure that its information was secure. It also had to be certain...
- Tags: Information Security, Oracle Corp., Sales Force, Sales, Information Rights Management, Beckman Coulter
- Case studies 2008-03-01
- A web blanket for weak hearts
- Researchers at the University of Leeds in the UK have developed a new device which could put the beat back into weak hearts and free patients from a lifetime of anti-rejection drugs. Current implanted heart assistive devices 'function by sucking blood from the ventricles and then expelling it into downstream...
- Tags: Heart, Web, Device, Channel Management, Productivity, Web Site Development, Healthcare, Marketing, Internet, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-02-15
- A pharmacy in a nanotechnology-based thin film
- MIT researchers have developed a new implantable device to improve our health. This nanoscale thin-film coating can deliver controlled drug doses to specific targets, acting as a 'micro pharmacy' inside our bodies. It could be used to deliver drugs for cancer, epilepsy, diabetes and other diseases. This film, which is...
- Tags: Film, Researcher, Substrate, Voltage, Drug, Nanotechnology, Real Estate, Semiconductors, Emerging Technologies, Business Operations, Hardware, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-02-13
- ICD-10: Turning Regulatory Compliance Into Strategic Advantage - Are U.S. Health Plans and Providers Ready for ICD-10 Adoption?
- As if existing IT investments weren't a large enough strain on provider and payor budgets, the U.S. health care industry is facing a new challenge: ICD-10 (International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems, Version 10) implementation. In 2011, per the mandate of Senate Bill 628, the United States...
- Tags: Biomedical, Health Care, Regulatory Compliance, Deloitte LLC, U.S. ICD-10 Adoption, Healthcare, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources
- White papers 2008-02-04
- Can nerves really regenerate?
- People suffering of injury to the brain or spinal cord cannot currently be treated because central nervous system neurons have a very limited capability of self-repair and regeneration. But now, researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology have developed a potentially promising strategy for encouraging the regeneration of damaged neurons....
- Tags: Polymer, Neuron, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-01-02
- Foams with good memory for space applications
- The U.S. National Science Foundation NSF has recently reported that two research teams have developed a new porous foam of an alloy that changes shape when exposed to a magnetic field. The NSF states that this new material is able to remember its original shape after it's been deformed by...
- Tags: National Science Foundation, Foam, Memory, Material, Team Management, Nanotechnology, Management, Emerging Technologies, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-01-01
- A Pharmaceutical Company Uses IBM's Business Insights Workbench to Mine Vast Stores of Structured and Unstructured Data
- The challenge was daunting: In the public domain alone, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office database contains more than 7.9 million full text and drawings of U.S. patents since 1976 and full-page images since 1790. In addition, Medline, an indexing service for research in medicine and related fields provided by...
- Tags: Biomedical, IBM Corp., Business Insights Workbench, Healthcare
- Case studies 2008-01-01
- Commercial brain computer systems are coming
- All over the world, systems that directly connect silicon circuits to brains are under development, and some are nearly ready for commercial applications, according to a new report from the World Technology Evaluation Center and announced by a news release of the University of Southern California USC. Some of the...
- Tags: University Of Southern California, Panel, Report, Computer, BCI, Productivity, Robots, Emerging Technologies, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2007-12-18
- Nanorobots for drug delivery?
- The idea of using nanorobots to deliver drugs and fight diseases such as cancers is not new check this story for example. But there are still lots of issues to solve before nanorobots can diagnose our diseases and treat them. Now, an international team of researchers has designed a software...
- Tags: 3D, Researcher, Protein, Environment, Cone, Sensor, Nanorobot, Nanotechnology, Semiconductors, Emerging Technologies, Hardware, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2007-12-08
- Nanotechnology and viruses working together?
- You've certainly read that nanotechnology can be used for many applications. Now, according to Nanowerk, researchers from the University of South Carolina have demonstrated that one electrically conductive polymer called polyaniline PANi could be used in conjunction with plant viruses to develop new materials. The researchers have used the rod-like...
- Tags: Nanofiber, Tobacco, Biomedical, Rod, Virus, Nanotechnology, Emerging Technologies, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2007-12-03
- Is Acacia link with Microsoft just smoke?
- Acacia Technologies, the patent firm which has publicly denied any link with Microsoft, took capital in 2003 from BayStar Capital, which for a time acted as a capital conduit from Microsoft to SCO Research, according to Groklaw. This could all be just coincidence, or smoke, as the saying...
- Tags: Acacia Technologies Group, Microsoft Corp., Smoke, BayStar Capital, Coincidence, Venture Capital World, Venture Capital, Investment, Open Source, Finance, Financing Startups, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2007-10-23
- A plastic as solid as steel
- A new composite plastic built layer by layer has been created by engineers at the University of Michigan. This plastic is as strong as steel. It has been built the same way as mother-of-pearl, and shows similar strength. Interestingly, this 300-layer plastic has been built with 'strong' nanosheets of clay...
- Tags: Atom, Polymer, Material, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2007-10-05
- Gene identification quickens
- Gene identification quickensFYI, re: gene identification reportFYI, Southwest Foundation for Biomedical Research is in San Antonio, NOT Dallas.
- Tags: HEALTHCARE, gene identification, FYI
- Discussion threads 2007-10-03
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