All medical offices and hospitals are familiar with the current ICD 9 Codes used for diagnosing patient conditions and illnesses and hopefully some standards for mapping the coding over to SNOMED will improve and come along, it is work in…
This is very nice, no more having the “hearing aide” visible and it is implemented behind the ear. The clinical trial was conducted with 61 individuals, which by clinical trials numbers is small, but the results seem to speak for…
The video speaks of where stem cell research is currently in the US and revisits the big breakthrough from a couple years ago when skin cells could be used instead of the actual embryo for research. That discovery rapidly set…
Hard hat area: The state project is aligned with the federal NHIN standards. Last month 15 organizations received grants to begin electronically sending Social Security disability claims via the National Health Information Network. As I understand the California infrastructure would…
This is just an overall “nice” story. I know as I have a mother who is a senior and the computer is a big connection for her to the outside world. She doesn’t have Windows 7 and a touchscreen, but…
This makes perfect sense since tablet pcs are already in use at Pfizer. I’m a big One Note fan myself and the article here states that users are basically jumping in on their own. At Microsoft OneNote has almost passed…
If you didn’t know better, you might guess there’s something else going on in the picture here. This system is more expensive than one that use finger tip scanning, but they were luck with a grant and were able to…
Here’s more bad news for the company with an expensive recall. In addition to “stent wars” the company also participates in this highly competitive area. Just last year the company received approval for a new stent, so I guess when…
Do you want safety or a lane to get a product to market rapidly? This is what the FDA is looking at. Not too long ago it was in the news that the NIH and others were looking to improve…
The old paper records keep showing up in new places, this time in the trash at a fast food building. I said this a while back and I think it still holds true, we some public shredders please!
