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Medical device depreciation friend or foe?

Medical device depreciation friend or foe?Imaging is just one industrySingapore Airlines enjoys a far better depreciation environment than other airlines and they also have continuously had the newest fleet of planes for years.Pushing that accelerated depreciation to medical imaging will only allow for newer and better imaging for patients. ...

Tags: Document management, HEALTHCARE, imaging, depreciation friend, medical device

Discussion threads 2009-03-03

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

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

Magnetic resonance imaging in color?

Magnetic resonance imaging in color?Dumbest thing everConsidering existing dyes and imaging substances cause serious problems for the kidneys in many people, I'm not sure how pretty colors can be justified.

Tags: Document management, magnetic resonance imaging

Discussion threads 2008-06-23

Siemens gives away two MRIs

Officially the winner of the Siemens Win an MRI contest was Lockport Memorial Hospital in Lockport, NY, near Buffalo. The hospital in the former factory town has long been threatened with closure, its people worked hard on the contest, and they deserve congratulations. Just...

Tags: Hospital, Siemens AG, MRI, Healthcare, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-01-25

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

It takes more brainpower to lie--go figure

Researchers using MRI brain scans found that liars use areas in the brain that are not involved in telling the truth. Basically, the research showed that your brain has to work harder to lie.  While that revelation is not at all startling, MRIs could be used in major cases to get at the truth, joining DNA testing...

Tags: MRI

Blog posts 2004-11-29

Additional Resources

MedINRIA 1.9 (Windows)

MedINRIA allows to process and analyze a large variety of magnetic resonance MR images including anatomical MRI, functional MRI fMRI, and diffusion tensor MRI (DT-MRI). MedINRIA was initially developed for medical experts, but may be used by anyone curious about medical images. Practically, MedINRIA is a suite of softwares, each...

Tags: 3D, Inria, Microsoft Windows, MedINRIA

Software downloads 2009-11-06

RAAViewer 091102 (Mac)

A program that displays images of interest to radiologists and others dealing with human anatomy in medicine. Anatomic structures are labeled and linked to in-depth information about the structure. Illustrations, CT and MRI images will be utilized.

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Structure, Desktops, Hardware

Software downloads 2009-11-05

AidScans 4.2 (Windows)

Volume estimation application. The program takes set of object slices provided by a scanner. The software was used for medical imaging purposes, especially for brain tumors obtained from MRI and CT scanners volume calculations. The program is useable for breast, chest, liver and another organs tumor calculations as well as...

Tags: Organ, Medical Imaging, I/O, Microsoft Windows, Tool, AnyIntelli, Scanners, Productivity, Healthcare, Hardware, Peripherals

Software downloads 2009-10-28

OsiriX 3.6.1 (Mac)

OsiriX is an image processing software dedicated to DICOM images produced by medical equipment (MRI, CT, PET, PET-CT, ...) and confocal microscopy (LSM and BioRAD-PIC format). It can also read many other file formats: TIFF (8,16, 32 bits), JPEG, PDF, AVI, MPEG and Quicktime. It is fully compliant with the...

Tags: 3D, Apple Macintosh, Medical Imaging, Imaging, Image Processing, OsiriX, OsiriX 3.6.1, 3D Viewer, Document Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting

Software downloads 2009-09-24

Harvard study leads liberal pushback

And passing this would be the "first shot" of the next civil war..Passing rubbish like this is whats going to ultimately make this country fall. The federal government, under the 10th Ammendment, has no business telling their citizens that they [b]must[/b] have health insurance. That is a state right and...

Tags: Financial Planning, HEALTHCARE, Benefits, commy, insurance, Harvard, hospital

Discussion threads 2009-09-18

Smart Planet: New innovations in Deep Brain Stimulation surgery

Is there new hope for Parkinson's patients? Imaging scientist, Alastair Martin, and neurosurgeon, Dr. Paul Larson, have teamed up to develop a way to perform Deep Brain Stimulation surgery that's more comfortable for the patients, more accurate and cuts the regular procedure time in half to 3 1/2 hours. The...

Tags: Innovation, Patient, Surgery, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-09-11

Why health care is not in the Constitution

Neither are food, clothing, and shelterThey're nowhere to be found in the constitution, yet are more important than healthcare. Without those 3 things you'll die real fast so you won't need healthcare. Those needs DID exist when the Constitution was written. There is no federal law making any...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Obama, health care, Constitution

Discussion threads 2009-08-31

XMIC August 2009 (Windows)

XMIC is a component-based software package for medical image visualization and analysis. It was coded in Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 with the Microsoft's Ribbon features the technology used in MS offce. Features of XMIC include: 1). Free to use without time limit; 2). Component based software architecture; 3). Supports many...

Tags: Software, Visualization, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp., Standard Corp., XMIC, Tools & Techniques, Microsoft Development Tools, Management, Development Tools, Software Development, Software/Web Development

Software downloads 2009-08-18

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

A call to mainstream health IT

A call to mainstream health ITInteresting conceptAnd to some degree it's true.One neat thing about the Health industry, however, is that there are some very bright folks in the open source area that can hold their own.A good example is OsiriX, which is open source imaging on the Mac &...

Tags: Notebooks, health-IT, open source

Discussion threads 2009-08-05

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

Microsoft puts an 18-month cap on Windows 7 to XP downgrades

Microsoft puts an 18-month cap on Windows 7 to XP downgradesIf written to MS guidelines they should.[i]Existing applications should remain compatible for many years from their first development.[/i]The problem is too many applications didn't follow Microsofts guidelines. Perhaps Microsoft should offer a binary compatability guarantee like the one Sun offers.NightmareThat...

Tags: Operating systems, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Corp., XP-downgrade, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows, service pack, Microsoft Windows Vista

Discussion threads 2009-06-18