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Medical imaging on Apple device

At the Apple WWDC 2008, Mark Cain of Mimvista shows off the company's new iPhone software that will allow doctors to download, colorize, and share patients' CT and PET scans. The images were previously only available in black in white and only on physicians' workstations.

Tags: Medical Imaging, Imaging, Apple Inc., Document Management, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, News, apple, developers, WWDC, Mark Cain, Mimvista, doctors, medical, CT scans, PET scans

Videos 2008-06-10

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Obamicans rebranding NHIN-Connect as the Health Internet

Hey look. A tech storyYou don't want me to write about policy so here's a tech story and we get...crickets. I guess the market is saying write more policy stories, isn't it? I'm sorry...... I'm still trying to figure out what an "Obamican" is.(But you get extra points for using...

Tags: Vertical industries, Obamicans, Health Internet, tech story, health care

Discussion threads 2009-11-02

How the health IT gold rush game will be played

It's an interesting conceptOn one side you have the regionals and on the other you have new ideas in data access.I need more than average medical data available to me and use my iPhone for the primary portable storage. (A wallet card is the portable "backup")With this very cheap...

Tags: Smart phones, game, Other Data, Health IT, Apple iPhone

Discussion threads 2009-09-29

Large Hadron Collider to restart in November

That sure is one heck of a COIL.I'd like to be there when they fire it off. Nothing better than cutting EDGE. BLEED!Detector That is actually a detector not a coil....RE: Large Hadron Collider to restart in Novemberwill it cure cancer, solve world hunger, clean the oceans, ready set...

Tags: Short-sighted people, CERN

Discussion threads 2009-08-07

IT dashboard slows rush to proprietary VA software

IT dashboard slows rush to proprietary VA softwareUnderstand where the VA is today.I'm in the VA health care program and actually see no problem with the IT side.My records are totally computerized. If I bring in a report from outside of the system it's scanned in immediately.When I have...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, VA Software Corp., IT Dashboard, information technology

Discussion threads 2009-07-21

Radiation Passport 1.0.2 (Mobile)

X-rays, CAT scans, fluoroscopy (including angiography/angioplasty), and nuclear medicine exams all cause ionizing radiation to be delivered to the body, which can cause cancer. Over the last 15 years, the use of medical imaging has been rapidly increasing. There have been recent estimates that up to 1.5-2% of all cancers...

Tags: Risk, Mobile, Imaging, Radiation, Tidal Pool Software, Cancer Risk, Radiation Exposure, Document Management, Healthcare, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Management

Software downloads 2009-07-07

Engineers create smartphones for ultrasound imaging

Proof that innovation is healthy in healthcare, two computer engineers have coupled USB-based ultrasound probe technology with a smartphone to create a compact mobile computational platform and a medical imaging device that fits into the palm of your hand. [caption id="attachment_1473" align="alignleft" width="150" caption="Credit: David Kilper/WUSTL "][/caption]...

Tags: Researcher, Medical Imaging, Smart Phone, Imaging, Computer, Smart Phones, Document Management, Healthcare, Productivity, Handhelds, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Hardware, Chris Jablonski

Blog posts 2009-04-21

Med student diagnoses cultural objects with radiology art

Art critics can debate the artistic merits of this project, but its novelty can't be disputed.  Below are images of a few everyday objects x-ray'd with an old four-slice CT scanner by Satre Stuelke, a 44-year-old medical student living in New York who also holds an MFA from the School...

Tags: Image, Object, Scanners, PDAs, Hardware, Peripherals, Handhelds, Chris Jablonski

Blog posts 2009-03-30

Try the extended warranty for health care

Try the extended warranty for health careSorry, but this is NOT the best model for health careThe fact is that, most times, doctors do not WANT to see people unless there is something obviously wrong such as the bleeding from the rectum that I have.The insurance companies also don't want...

Tags: Insurance, Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, extended warranty, health care

Discussion threads 2009-01-27

MRI scans are too routine

MRI scans are too routineWhat would you rather have?Would you have them be 'too routine' or not used enough? Personally, I'll go for the latter.Forget sports when making a judgementSports medicine uses MRIs far more than the general population simply because they have some high priced players that play in...

Tags: Document management, MRI, MRI Scans

Discussion threads 2008-12-12

To CCHIT or not to CCHIT is the question

To CCHIT or not to CCHIT is the questionOsiriX is a good exampleI actually have it on my MacBook and I keep all images (including a PET/CT Scan and normal CT Scans) loaded on it.While OsiriX is Mac only it does use standard imaging formats. When I have a...

Tags: Document management, CCHIT, imaging format, imaging, OsiriX

Discussion threads 2008-12-01

The good news about cancer

The good news about cancerBowel cancer and rotting meats.There is an unarguable link between eating meat and bowel cancer. Eat meat by all means (heck, we wouldn't even have many animals left if it weren't for our consumption of them) but limit it.As it stays rotting in your gut the...

Tags: OSA

Discussion threads 2008-11-28

The health IT archipelago

The health IT archipelagoUniversal standards are the first needIf doctors are going to spend money on a computer based system then the first thing they need to be assured of is that there will be no problem interfacing with other doctor's systems when needed. Then there is the need...

Tags: Vertical industries, HEALTHCARE, Benefits, Insurance, health care, surgery, X-ray, information technology

Discussion threads 2008-11-03

The 7 roadblocks to health IT nirvana

The 7 roadblocks to health IT nirvanaA Health IT Czar sounds good to meI don't believe that we will end up with one single system, but multiple systems that will need to work together.There are two ways of looking at multiple systems. There is obviously the multiple vendor approach...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Government, Insurance, hospital system, health care, roadblock, information technology

Discussion threads 2008-10-17

See the heart beat in real time from outside

See the heart beat in real time from outsideUltrasound has gone a long wayBack in '71, when my wife was about 6 months along carrying our first born the hospital where she worked got the first ultrasound in the state. The Dr. (a friend of my wife's) came running...

Tags: Ultrasound, patient

Discussion threads 2008-08-29

Comcast sets 250GB ceiling

Comcast sets 250GB ceilingRE: Comcast sets 250GB ceiling[i]"..Comcast won't be releasing any programs that will let you easily monitor your bandwidth usage.."[/i]doesnt that directly violate the FCC order requiring Comcast to be fully transparent with their customers? To me this is still leaving them in the dark. IF they want...

Tags: INTERNET, Corporate communications, Comcast Corp., ceiling

Discussion threads 2008-08-29

Will students replace notebooks for handhelds?

Guest post: Imran Hussain is a blogger at startupmeme.com, and has a keen interest in technology and its effects on the lives of students. Apple demonstrated some applications aimed at medical students at this year's WWDC. First was Modality, software for medical science students by a company...

Tags: Student, Google Docs Mobile, Notebooks, Handhelds, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2008-06-18

LabNotes: Guide to Lab & Diagnostic Tests (labnotes) (Mobile)

LabNotes: Guide to Lab & Diagnostic Testspowered by Skyscape Publisher: F.A. Davis Company A Davis''s Notes book, LabNotes provides students, nurses, and other health professionals with a quick and portable reference tool for competently explaining, preparing, and caring for patients before, during, and after common lab and diagnostic testing. Concise...

Tags: Lab, Mobile, Skyscape Inc., Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Human Resources

Software downloads 2008-05-29

Cardiology Service Sees Gains in Efficiency, Core Measures With Data Aggregation

Cardiology clinicians used all of the powerful image technologies driving advances in heart care - coronary angiograms, echocardiograms, CT, MRI, and nuclear PET scans. Typically, such images were stored in systems far from the patient unit, so physicians and nurse practitioners had to leave the patient's bedside to see them....

Tags: Patient, Cardiology Service

Case studies 2008-02-21

A new look at virtual autopsies

Using computed tomography CT scans for autopsies is not new. This kind of exam is routinely practiced in several countries read this for example. But except for some autopsies of American soldiers, this technology is not really used in the U.S. This might change now that the Radiological Society of...

Tags: Computed Tomography, Examiner, Document Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2007-11-30