Asset Management the Siemens Way
Watch your assets! In healthcare delivery this has always been true and, with the advent of the Affordable Care Act, popularly known as Obamacare, there is a more pressing need…
Cutting the Cord in Ultrasound Systems
For many radiologists and other physicians, the Holy Grail in ultrasound imaging has been a system that features wireless transducers. Transducer cables have always been a cumbersome necessity, but they…
RSNA 2012: “Chemo Brain” Is For Real
Anyone who has a friend or loved one who is undergoing treatment for cancer has probably heard them say at some point, “Sorry, that’s my chemo brain.” It is meant…
World’s Largest Healthcare System Banks on Telemedicine
What has been the world’s largest direct healthcare delivery system is now the world’s largest user of telemedicine. Have you guessed who it is?Kudos if you answered the Veterans Administration. In…
Get the Message? Texting Improves Patient Care
As a whole, medicine is slow to adopt new technologies. If that new technology involves an erosion of a doctor’s already-spare private life, you pretty much find yourself with a…
Meet the Bone Ninja, an iPad App That Analyzes Bone Deformities!
When we think of a ninja, we imagine a sword-swinger in black PJ’s, a warrior who could give Spiderman a run for his money in a wall-crawling contest. The Bone…
OCR Releases HIPAA Privacy Rule Guidance on De-Identifying PHI
Just two and a half years after hosting a workshop on the HIPAA Privacy Rule's de-identification standard, OCR has issued its "Just two and a half years after hosting a…
Medications and Your Dental Health
Medications are any chemical substance used in the treatment, cure, or prevention of disease. It can also be used as a supplement to enhance a person’s physical or mental well being.Over the course of our lives…
XBOX Kinect Helps with Stroke Rehabilitation
Each year, two-thirds of the 700,000 Americans who survive a stroke each year require rehabilitation. But only one in three of those survivors actually do the at-home exercises recommended by…
Top Telehealth / mHealth Hiring Trends and Tips for Employers
While many people in the healthcare industry agree that telehealth is getting hotter every year, nothing is as good an indicator of that growth as growth in hiring. While many…
