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- MRI scans are too routine
- A single scan can cost $750-1,000 and if it turns up something wrong surgery is often ordered routinely. Diagnosing based on pain, and considering surgery only after a period of rest, can save both scans and surgical suites. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Scan, Surgery, MRI, MRI Scan, Productivity, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-12-12
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- Limits urged on genetic testing
- Limits urged on genetic testingPreexisting conditions.Nothing will be used to help the consumer. It is used against the consumer to maximize profits. Wait till some genome company gets to broker your data. This is the future goldmine. It is more profitable to collect premiums and then bump them off thru...
- Tags: Insurance, Vertical industries, Benefits, insurance company, public option, health care
- Discussion threads 2009-07-07
- MedMemory Personal Patient Health Record 20090602 (Windows)
- MedMemory is a digital personal patient health record. It is a hardware, software, and service solution that allows patients to organize and control their medical records by storing them on a free-standing USB drive application. Information that is commonly stored on this personal health record includes critical information (identifying info,...
- Tags: Patient, Health Care, Microsoft Windows, MedMemory, Information Storage, Vertical Industries, Healthcare, Benefits, E-health, Human Resources
- Software downloads 2009-07-05
- The spectrum and the stimulus
- The spectrum and the stimulusThere will be challengesAnd that is one of the reasons why I believe in moving from certification to licensing. By licensing I mean it as it is known in the medical profession. Take out orderlies and aides and just about everyone caring for you...
- Tags: Document management, HEALTHCARE, Vertical industries, Quality, OsiriX
- Discussion threads 2009-04-24
- Where cheaper is not better
- Where cheaper is not better$2,500 -v- $40,000The cost of an PET/CT or MRI scan was about $2,500 when I had mine and a round of radiation or chemo is going to be at least $40,000. Identifying the efficacy of a treatment early can save some major dollars when the...
- Tags: Financial Planning, HEALTHCARE, PET/CT, insurance
- Discussion threads 2009-03-06
- 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
- Dr. Ziauddin Hospital Automates Financials and Product Ordering With Integrated System
- The Dr. Ziauddin Group of Hospitals - operating under the Dr. Ziauddin Trust - runs five campuses with 600 beds across Karachi in Pakistan. The hospital's mission is to provide the latest in medical treatment and care at affordable rates for every citizen in Pakistan. Services include x-ray, ultrasound, MRI,...
- Tags: Hospital, Oracle Corp., Dr., Healthcare, Strategy, Management
- Case studies 2008-06-01
- 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
- LabNotes: Guide to Lab & Diagnostic Tests (LabNotes™) (Mobile)
- LabNotes: Guide to Lab & Diagnostic Testspowered by Skyscape Authors: Tracey Hopkins, BSN, RN, Ardmore, PennsylvaniaPublisher: 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...
- Tags: Lab, Mobile, Skyscape Inc., LabNotes, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Human Resources
- Software downloads 2007-11-26
- Who deserves an MRI?
- Given the enormous amounts of capital funneling into the health care system it's easy to think there must be plenty of money for equipment. There isn't. There are many hospitals, especially in poor and rural areas, that can't afford top-notch equipment. Siemens Medical is taking...
- Tags: Hospital, Siemens AG, Video, Siemens Medical, Healthcare, Corporate Communications, Marketing, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2007-10-27
- GPS accuracy for a robotic neurosurgeon
- The MiniAture Robot for Surgical Applications MARS is already FDA-approved for orthopedic and spinal surgery. Now, Israeli scientists have given it GPS accuracy for keyhole neurosurgery. This is a minimally invasive procedure used for tumor biopsies or deep brain stimulation, but you need to know exactly where you operate. So...
- Tags: Keyhole Inc., Robot, Registration, GPS, Robots, Emerging Technologies, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2007-10-08
- Google monetizing negative press around healthcare?
- Google monetizing negative press around healthcare?Making MoneyGoogle is just making money!! Just take the side who gives you money and you get to earn more. Very Simple.Though many businesses talk of ethics and things. Its finally abt money and I think is no different. Though it may be the sweet...
- Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, health care, Google Inc., insurance, sicko
- Discussion threads 2007-06-30
- Google monetizing negative press around healthcare?
- Today, Dan Farber wrote an excellent article about his take regarding Google's attempt to capitalize on the opportunity to limit or dampen the negative press caused by "Sicko", Michael Moore's newest documentary.It's interesting to me that Google wants to align itself on the "evil" side of this issue, be it...
- Tags: Google Health
- Blog posts 2007-06-30
- A 'nano' cancer monitor implant
- It is very difficult for doctors to measure the evolution of tumors and if chemotherapy is actually working on cancer patients. This is why MIT researchers have developed a minuscule device that can be implanted directly into a tumor and containing nanoparticles designed to test for different substances associated with...
- Tags: Engineering &, Innovation, Health &, Medicine, Nanotechnology, nanoparticle, MRI
- Blog posts 2006-12-20
- Brain scan technology could save babies' lives
- Researchers at UCL University College London are developing a portable brain scanner which could help save the lives of premature and newborn babies in intensive care by avoiding to move them to conventional scanning facilities. A current prototype combines the advantages of both magnetic resonance imaging MRI and ultrasound. It...
- Tags: EPSRC, scanner, UCL Dept
- Blog posts 2005-12-25
- Virtual autopsies
- Traditional autopsies are considered as invasive procedures by many faiths and even violate religious laws, such as is the case for Muslims and Jews. This is why the concept of virtual autopsy, which relies on computer tomography CT and magnetic resonance imaging MRI technologies, has been developed in the last...
- Tags: virtual Autopsy, autopsy
- Blog posts 2005-12-23
- LabNotes: Guide to Lab & Diagnostic Tests (Mobile)
- LabNotes: Guide to Lab & Diagnostic Testspowered by Skyscape Authors: Tracey Hopkins, BSN, RN, Ardmore, PennsylvaniaPublisher: 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...
- Tags: Lab, Mobile, Skyscape Inc., Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Human Resources
- Software downloads 2005-09-13
- Reducing the cost of health care
- Reducing the cost of health careGreat... More personal information for someone to steal...NTThere's only one way to fix Health Care...And that's to fix the out-of-control pharmacutical companies.The first thing that needs to happen is to outright BAN advertising by the pharmacutical companies. We, the patients, are paying for all...
- Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, health care, patient
- Discussion threads 2005-06-28
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