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- Ground breaking surgery "eliminates" neuro-illnesses
- Ground breaking surgery "eliminates" neuro-illnessesScary - truly scaryI do hope that sufferers of neurological diseases will find a cure. I truly hope so.Still, I've seen what science experiments parents will do on their children while claiming that I am neglecting my child by not doing the same scientifically unsupported...
- Tags: Ground Breaking, Neurological Disorders
- Discussion threads 2009-06-28
- Ground breaking surgery "eliminates" neuro-illnesses
- What if you could turn on and off Parkinson's, dystonia or Tourette's syndrome? Ground breaking surgery could open up the world to the unseen world of neurosciences. Article by Zack Whittaker
- Tags: Surgery, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2009-06-28
- Buffett: Steve Jobs' surgery was a "material fact"; should have been disclosed
- Buffett: Steve Jobs' surgery was a "material fact"; should have been disclosedFlawed logic"They?re gonna find out about it anyway so I don?t see a big privacy issue"The fact if something is found out, does not define if something is private in the first place or not.But hey, this is an...
- Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Investment, Steve Jobs, surgery, health care, material fact, Apple Inc., absence
- Discussion threads 2009-06-24
- Buffett: Steve Jobs' surgery was a "material fact"; should have been disclosed
- Apple, its board and Steve Jobs should have disclosed the liver transplant that Jobs received earlier this year because "it's a material fact," Berkshire Hathaway Chairman Warren Buffett said on CNBC's The Call this morning. Buffett was careful with his response but was clear that he believed...
- Tags: Steve Jobs, Surgery, Warren Buffett, Corporate Governance, Security, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-06-24
- Mussel "glue" and inkjet printers may make for faster healing from surgeries
- The adhesive protein mussels create allow them to stick tenaciously to virtually any type of material, including rocks, glass, metals, and wood. Now, researchers at North Carolina State University found a way to use this natural mussel glue along with a variation on the inkjet printer to make medical adhesives...
- Tags: Printer, Inkjet Printer, Biomedical, Surgery, Printing, Document Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Chris Jablonski
- Blog posts 2009-03-18
- EuroScore Palm 1.0 (Mobile)
- A method of calculating predicted operative mortality for patients undergoing cardiac surgery. The European System for Cardiac Operative Risk Evaluation EuroSCORE identifies a number of risk factors which help to predict mortality from cardiac surgery. The predicted mortality in percent is calculated by adding the weights assigned to each factor....
- Tags: Mobile, Palm Inc., Surgery, MRF Solution, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing
- Software downloads 2009-03-01
- Another way to avoid mistakes in surgery
- Another way to avoid mistakes in surgeryWho makes mistakes these days?You can not trust the medical industry.
- Tags: Strategy, surgery
- Discussion threads 2009-01-26
- Another way to avoid mistakes in surgery
- Brian Stewart developed a way to bar code surgical gauze before packaging, and can offer tracking of those gauzes for about $15 per surgery. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Operation, Bar Code, Surgery, RFID, Healthcare, Wireless And Mobility, Security, Biometrics, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2009-01-26
- 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
- The Washington Manual Surgery Survival Guide 6.0.4 (Mobile)
- Prepared by residents and fellows at Washington University School of Medicine, this survival guide provides all the essential information that every surgery intern needs from Day 1 on the wards - including daily routine, rounds, chart reviews, preoperative and postoperative care, operating room conduct, radiology, critical care, and interaction with...
- Tags: Patient, Mobile, Surgery, Skyscape Inc.
- Software downloads 2008-11-26
- PocketMedicine's Pocket General Surgery 1.0.0 (Mobile)
- The Editors and Contributors are a virtual "Who's Who" in surgery, and they have prepared an outstanding program that provides expert advice on a full range of problems. The subjects are covered using the following headings: Epidemiology; History and Physical; Staging or Classification; Management; Follow-Up; and Prognosis. Destined to be...
- Tags: Mobile, Surgery, Skyscape Inc., PocketMedicine, Handhelds, Hardware
- Software downloads 2008-11-26
- 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
- Essentials of Diagnosis & Treatment in Surgery 8.0.3 (Mobile)
- Essential coverage of surgery! This pocket guide features bulleted, high-yield information on over 400 common surgical diagnoses. With key equations and formulae, a clinical pearl per topic, plus references, this reference truly is essential in critical care.
- Tags: Mobile, Surgery, Skyscape Inc., Advertising & Promotion, Marketing
- Software downloads 2008-10-21
- CBS video: 3D in the operating room
- To a surgeon, precision is everything. As CBS News medical correspondent Jon LaPook explains, new fiber optic technology is providing a three-dimensional, lifelike image to aid in operations that include brain surgery.
- Tags: 3D, Fiber-optics, CBS Corp., Fiber Optics, Optical Networking, Network Technology, Telecommunications, Networking, News, cbs, imaging, surgery, medicine, doctors, brain, video, graphics
- Videos 2008-08-13
- Clinical Manual of Urology 7.0.10 (Mobile)
- The perfect guide to practice, Clinical Manual of Urology puts leading-edge advice as close as your pocket. With up-to-date practices described by today's leading clinicians, this reference offers fundamental help with all major urologic conditions and diseases, plus time-saving recommendations on important problems you won't find covered in other clinical...
- Tags: Mobile, Surgery, Skyscape Inc., Advertising & Promotion, Marketing
- Software downloads 2008-08-09
- Current Consult: Surgery 8.0.4 (Mobile)
- LANGE created CURRENT Consult: Surgery for physicians in practice and training with too much to accomplish in too little time. CURRENT Consult: Surgery brings you authoritative clinical answers on more than 360 surgically treated disorders in the most efficient format, perfectly devised for the busy physician. When you need diagnostic...
- Tags: Mobile, Surgery, Skyscape Inc.
- Software downloads 2008-08-09
- End of the hero-doctor era
- Thanks in part to DeBakey's headline-raising prowess critical care medicine is now a big-money industry, driven far more by institutions and teams rather than individuals. There can be no one like him again. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Era, Surgery, Robots, Team Management, Workforce Management, Healthcare, Emerging Technologies, Management, Human Resources, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-07-12
- Check out the bionic neck
- I've told you about my disc replacement surgery, but I've never shown you. Here's an X-ray from my most recent follow-up appointment with the doctor who did the surgery. As a trial patient, I have agreed to go back after three weeks, six weeks, three months, six months, a year...
- Tags: Surgery, Blogging, Internet, Mitch Ratcliffe
- Blog posts 2008-07-09
- Virtual Plastic Surgery Software (VPSS) 1.0 (Windows)
- The Virtual Plastic Surgery Software VPSS is a photo warping software that will let you modify photos to simulate virtual plastic surgery results on anyone's face and body. As a specific purpose software, we developed a custom and convenient interface more suited for virtual plastic surgery simulation than anything you...
- Tags: Software, Microsoft Windows, Surgery, Photograph, Kaeria, Virtual Plastic Surgery Software, Tools & Techniques, Social Networking, Management, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion
- Software downloads 2008-06-05
- Supercomputer performs prostate surgery
- A supercomputer at the Texas Advanced Computing Center TACC recently piloted a laser to perform prostate surgery on a dog. The operation was done in Houston without the intervention of a human surgeon while the Lonestar supercomputer, a Dell Linux Cluster with 5,840 processors, was in Austin. According to TACC,...
- Tags: Treatment, Houston, Supercomputer, Austin, Surgery, Laser, Lonestar, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-06-02
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