Photo sharing is easy now but remember the days of starting with negatives and scanners and then hoping the person could see the file on another computer? When it comes to medical images, many doctors and hospital systems are still in those frustrating days of not being able to share images quickly and easily with...
A new study from Manhattan Research has revealed that 26% of doctors in Europe own an iPad, and spend more than 25% of their professional time using the tablet. 1,207 doctors from Italy, Germany, France, Spain and the UK participated in the ‘Taking the Pulse Europe‘ study, and the results were first picked up by...
A Amil disponibiliza a partir desta terça-feira (10) um aplicativo para iPad e iPhone, desenvolvido exclusivamente para os médicos (credenciados ou não), permitindo consulta a materiais de apoio e procedimentos médicos, com intuito de agilizar o atendimento dentro dos consultórios e clínicas médicas. O Aplicativo Amil Médicos possibilita acesso ao Manual Merck, um conceituado manual...
Drchrono, a startup that simplifies the professional lives of doctors by bringing electronic health records and much more to the iPad, has raised $2.8 million in funding led by Yuri Milner, with Google’s Matt Cutts and other investors participating. The startup had previously raised $1.3 million in seed funding from Milner, General Catalyst, Charles River Ventures, 500 Startups, Gmail creator and FriendFeed...
Dale Potter didn’t have much experience in the healthcare field when he was named chief information officer at the Ottawa Hospital in Ontario, Canada, in 2008. He had previously worked in IT for manufacturing operations in Canada and Europe. So one of the first things he did was to shadow the clinicians on their rounds...
Some hospitals and health systems are working on customizing their clinical information systems so that doctors making their rounds can access patient data on iPads. But some physicians are taking things one step further by taking iPads into the operating room with them. One of those pioneering surgeons is Felasfa M. Wodajo, MD, an assistant...
Ferramenta mostra figuras de animais e ensina a diferença que há entre uma letra minúscula e maiúscula Um funcionário público britânico criou um aplicativo para iPhone para ajudar a filha, de 3 anos, que sofre com um tumor no cérebro, a aprender a escrever. Precisando incentivar ao máximo a cognição da filha doente, Sean Connolly...
VitaDock is a free iPhone app that works with docking monitors to help users visualize and manage their overall health. Mobile technologies are playing a growing role in the management and monitoring of consumer health, and just in the last few months we’ve seen innovations launched to help diagnose infertility, HIV, melanoma andmalaria, to name just a few examples....
Careticker is the world’s first platform that helps patients plan in advance for a hospital or outpatient procedure. (Miami, FL) EyeNetra is one of the most affordable mobile eye diagnostic ever developed, allowing anyone to take their own eye test, get a prescription for glasses, and connect to eye-care providers all on a mobile phone. (Cambridge, MA)...
“Pensar fora da caixa” é realmente algo difícil de definir. O governo americano criou recentemente um certificado para empresas chamado “Meaningful Use Certificate” que confere vantagens e verbas a empresas que utilizem a tecnologia de maneira inovadora produzindo impactos reais na saúde. É onde o verdadeiro desafio está lançado: “pensar fora da caixa” produzindo impactos...
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