By David Pincock, on June 28th, 2010
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 [...]
By David Pincock, on April 30th, 2010
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 [...]
By David Pincock, on April 23rd, 2010
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 [...]
By David Pincock, on April 21st, 2010
An interesting topic for [...]
By David Pincock, on April 12th, 2010
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, [...]
By David Pincock, on April 6th, 2010
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 [...]
By David Pincock, on April 1st, 2010
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 [...]
By David Pincock, on March 31st, 2010
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 [...]
By David Pincock, on March 26th, 2010
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 [...]
By David Pincock, on March 23rd, 2010
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 [...]