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FDA and NIH Working To Accelerate Development of Innovative Medical Technologies – It’s All In the Software

March 10, 2010

Personally from doing this blog it doesn’t appear to me that we have a shortage in the development area, but where the issues lie is in standards and bringing some of this to a better collaborative effort.  You do NOT…

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Biodesign® Advanced Tissue Repair – Cook Medical Regenerative Medicine Biodesign Website Expanded

March 10, 2010

If you check in here often enough you have probably seen information about Cook Medical and last year I had the opportunity to talk with a representative of Cook to find out more about how it works.  We discussed hernia…

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Dendreon “Intellivenge” Algorithmic Software Supporting Administration of Provenge – Seeking FDA Approval by May 1st

March 10, 2010

This company has been in the news for a couple years now and if you haven’t followed this company as far as development, politics, the FDA and more, it has a little bit of everything.  Even with biotech drugs getting…

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The White House Gets An EHR – A Version of ALTHA Developed by the Military

March 9, 2010

This is good, I have said the Executive Branch is moving right along with technology, can’t say the same for the House and Senate.  The House expects their wireless project to take 3 years as an example.  It looks like…

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Pacific BioSciences Announces a 15 Minute Genome Mapping for Less Than $1000 by 2013

March 5, 2010

The race to getting a full and affordable entire gene sequence just became a little more competitive.  As I have posted before, Intel sees promise here as an investor and you can view the list of current customers below, some…

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Healthcare Reform Efforts and Methodologies in the US Mirrored by Our Losing Pace With Innovation Capacity

March 5, 2010

This initiative from Intel is an effort to create and re-create innovation in the US once again.  With our new administration we are working hard to play catch up after 8 years of an administration that was asleep at the…

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One Quarter of Germans Would Embrace an Implantable Microchip – 72% Said Absolutely Not

March 5, 2010

This was a survey taken before the big consumer electronics show in Hanover, Germany started.  I guess this could mean some potential sales for the folks at PositiveID who manufacture the chip and the software that now allows reporting to…

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Chemistry Add-in for Word 2007 From Microsoft Research

March 4, 2010

Hard Hat area:

For those using Word and adding chemistry information, here’s an add on for Word 2007.  There are a few samples with the online templates, about 6.  You can also import from your own library and I am guessing…

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Connecting HealthVault/Google Health and More to RazCode Encrypted Microsoft Tags – Automate Data Input

March 4, 2010

If you are a regular reader here, then you know I am a Tags Fan.  This is the next phase of Microsoft Tags in working with RazCode to upload information to your Personal Health Record.  I started this post a…

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Insulin Pump Problems and Recalls – FDA Get Those Tags Out There So Consumers Can Identify Them Easily with Cell Phones

March 3, 2010

There may be some additional software issues here creating problems.  The FDA is studying reports to find out why, it is the software or perhaps an easier user interface needed, or maybe a combination of both.  

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