Trends In Mobile Medicine

Our friends over at NursingSchools.net sent over a great article about the top 10 trends in mobile medicine. I’ve posted the first five head on over to their website for the rest. (NursingSchools.net)

Using cell phones to detect airborne toxins: Cell phones are everywhere these days, and I do mean everywhere: There are 4.6 [...]

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Amazing X-Rays!

The gifts of health technology…. Here’s a collection of some amazing x-rays taken over the past few years:

A Florida man was stabbed in the head by an unknown assailant in 2007, resulting in a gruesome image that doesn’t even look real. But Michael Hill survived the ordeal, and is currently the Guiness World Record [...]

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Wear Contact Lenses At Night To See Perfectly During The Day

Courtesy of Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya

For all my farsighted friends out there, some health technology that could change your life. A scientist in Spain has developed a new type of contact lens that temporarily corrects Hyperopia overnight so that users can go without contacts during the day:

Pauné’s design is the first contact lens capable of [...]

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Dr. Kevorkian Talks About Assisting The Death Of 130 Patients

An interesting topic for [...]

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Microsoft's Next Software Should Be EHR

Microsoft already has Healthvault, their electronic health records solution but this is not a full scale EHR(electronic health record) solution. The company already has is deeply involved in ERP solutions (with Microsoft dynamics) and even CRM… So why haven’t they tackled health care head on?

An article by Austin Merritt tackles this question and according to him, [...]

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Dean Kamen On Colbert Report

There’s few cooler health technology video clips on the web than Stephan Colbert roll out on an advanced wheelchair created by Dean Kamen. Here’s the clip: Clip 1

The second clip is their discussion on the role of technology in America. Check it out here: Clip [...]

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Bionic Eye May Restore Vision To Blind

Courtesy William West, AFP/Getty Images

It may not be as high-tech as Jordy’s visor in Star Trek but a research group in Australia has created a ‘bionic’ eye that can restore partial vision to those with degenerative vision loss.

It consists of a miniature camera, mounted on glasses, that captures images and [...]

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New SmartPill Knows When You Take It

Courtesy of The University of Florida

Here at Techmedicus we love our smartpills. This new one has been developed at the University of Florida and is specifically used to track whether a patient has taken their pills or not.

The American Heart Association calls patients’ failure to follow prescription regimens “the number one problem in [...]

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Robotic Surgery Not Evolving Quickly Enough

As amazing as surgical robots can be, some surgeons are unimpressed with the rate of advancement in the technology. Some complaints about the system include a lack of haptic feedback and the fact the machines are so bulky. Another sticky point is the price: at $2.5 million per machine the DaVinci robot, created by Intuitive, is [...]

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800 Year Old Brain Found With Some Cells Intact

Courtesy of NeuroImage

Not quite suspended animation but still an interesting survival story. Scientists in France have found intact braincells within an 800 year old petrified brain. Here’s the breakdown:

he brain is so well preserved that the researchers were able to perform far more tests on it than were possible with similar specimens found [...]

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