|
|||||
|
I appreciate every reader we have and so I thought I would re-tweet on Techmedicus some of the things our followers have said this week. Some News: @HealthIntel: Seeing the bravery & humility of US rescue/med workers in Haiti makes me proud to be an American. Amazing how tragedy brings out our best. Haiti was clearly [...] Here’s a nice long video for your Saturday afternoon. I had the pleasure of meeting Craig Venter a few years back where he spoke on this topic at my university. The things he said in that speech still stick with me today. Here is a similar speech that he gave at TEDmed this past [...]
Image courtesy of Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council For many people the “beep beep” of an electrocardiogram (heart monitor) is symbolic of hospitals and health care facilities everywhere. This may not be the case for too much longer. A breakthrough heart scanner is being developed at the University of Leeds that actually measures [...]
For those of you not familiar with IDEO…they are one of the most innovative design consultancies in the world. Businessweek ranked them in the top 25 most innovative companies and they also happened to do consulting work for the other 24 companies in the top 25. You can read more about them here and here. When approached by Intercell [...] #gallery-1 {
The iPill (haven’t we had enough with the “i” yet?) by the newly acquired Novartis subsidiary Proteus Biomedical. The pill has embedded ingestible sensors which deliver valuable information to physicians. These sensors can track vital [...] Marketing in medicine is always a touchy issue because there is nothing the average person holds more dear than their health and treating it like a commodity can sometimes be disheartening. Any doctor will tell you that marketing is just a way of life and if they don’t do it then they won’t have a [...]
For many years now Tablets have held the promise of information at your doctors and nurses fingertips. Perhaps encompassing the spirit of Medicine 2.0. A simple to use all encompassing machine meant to deliver patient information and vitals; an instrument for teaching patients about the ailments they face. Unfortunately for the [...] 
The history of surgery may need to be reviewed. A discovery near Paris has unearthed a 6,900 year old amputee patient. His forearm was removed under fairly sophisticated conditions, as it appears he was anaesthetised under relatively sterile conditions. A flintstone was likely used in place of a scalpel, and the surgery site was cleaned and [...] How is it that with all of the video communication and social networking tools available, we still access doctors the same way our grandparents did (pre-internet)? Fortunately there are people enabling massive change. Check out the facebook-esque medical platform: Hello Health You can also watch Jay Parkinson talk about the project at Pop!Tech:
Anthony Atala has done the unthinkable: in 2006 he transplanted an organ grown in a lab, into a human being. He creates these organs by building scaffolding then growing cells over the scaffold. The result: made to order organs in a matter of weeks. Of course there’s a lot more that goes into the process than [...] |
  |
||||
|
Copyright © 2010 Techmedicus – Better health via technology - All Rights Reserved |
|||||
