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Medicine on the Move
Like all other devices, medical and health devices are all going WireLess.A new cloud based wireless device for Health/Medical monitoring seems to be launched every week! Eric Topol highlights several of the most important wireless devices in medicine's future - all helping to keep more of us out of hospital beds. And to borrow the MacD tagline, I'm Loving It. Eric Topol highlights several of the most important wireless devices in medicine's future - all...
Cover yourself up!!
The Swine flu death toll in India has risen to 20 in two weeks. The disease is especially partial to young kids, girls and elderly persons with co-existing chronic disease. Many of the victims are either foreign residents or tourists, which points to another easily demarcated section of population. Mark IV Medical communications is a Coimbatore based multimedia and medical animation company with offices in USA and Germany. Most of the creative staff at Mark...
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Pubmed Search Simplified
PubMed is a service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine that includes over 18 million citations from MEDLINE and other life science journals for biomedical articles back to 1948. PubMed includes links to full text articles and other related resources. The search volumes at Pubmed are enormous!! Many people i know do not derive the full benefits of that LARGE library - Pubmed. Most stop at simple article searches and then get lost in...
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Best Medical Animation sites
As i work in the Medical Communications industry, i have to work closely with various presentation and communications technologies. Medical animations are very important to me as they let me explain difficult concepts in an easy manner. There are a number of medical animation websites on the net but very few are accurate as well as aesthetic. Below is a slide cast of a few of my favourite 3D medical animation websites. Yopu can access...
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Imaging technologies, Connectivity and the markets.-
Healthcare IT is changing the practice of medicine. Electronic medical records, Clinical Decision support systems and CPOE are a few applications which have helped clinical medicine to streamline and be more accurate and effective. But if there are two branches which can use IT to completely overhaul and drastically improve efficiency, its Radiology and Pathology. I was tempted to read this article, though the headlines(COMMODITIZATION of medicine) don't appeal to the Human rights aspect of...
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Medical Informatics in India
As knowledge expands and requires better management, role of I.T in health care can only become more important. India has a large number of trained I.T professionals and is in a position to leverage its Brain power to take Health informatics to new heights. As i have argued before, smart use of health informatics can also help us attain Health rights for all in many ways (lower costs, better quality, better informed patients, e.t.c). Here,...