Workforce Development: An Industry Update
Find out how TIGER (Technology Informatics Guiding Education Reform) and community colleges have responded to meet the growing education and training needs of the evolving HIT workforce.
February 10, 2010
Speakers:
Patricia Dombrowski, MA
Director, Life Science Informatics Center
Bellevue Community College
Patricia Hinton Walker, PhD, RN, FAAN
Vice President for Nursing Policy
Uniformed Services University of the Health [...]
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February 8, 2010
MAKKAH: The first Saudi and fourth GCC conference on promoting health is to be held at the InterContinental Jeddah on March 15-17 with a number of specialists from the US, Europe, Saudi Arabia and other GCC countries expected to participate. Representatives from the British pharmaceutical, biological, and health care company, GlaxoSmithKline, will also attend the [...]
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February 8, 2010
Dr. Sulaiman Al-Habib Medical Group announced that it has signed an agreement with “Al-Faisaliah Medical Systems Co.” in Dubai, under the auspices and presence of H.R.H Prince Mohamed Bin Khalid Al-Abdullah Al-Faisal, president and C.E.O. of Al-Faisaliah Holding Group, to equip the largest Cardiac Center in the private sector in KSA. The Group reported about [...]
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February 8, 2010
Medical imaging is the technique that is used to generate images of human body or parts for clinical purposes or medical science. Revolutionary advances in imaging technology provides a superior method for imaging apoptosis. A team of researchers from the University of Notre Dame and the Washington University School of Medicine elucidates the method of [...]
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February 6, 2010
Rhinoplasty, also called a “nose job,” is a very popular procedure that involves reshaping the nose, often for cosmetic reasons, but sometimes also for functional reasons like correcting structural deformities of the nasal region. Growing consciousness about one’s appearance coupled with increasing accessibility to surgical contouring for correcting appearance are top most reasons why surgeries [...]
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February 6, 2010
Ectopic pregnancy, also referred to as tubal pregnancy, occurs in 2% of all pregnancies and is the leading cause of death in women during their first trimester. It occurs when an egg fertilizes outside a woman’s uterus and implants itself in the fallopian tube, ovary or the cervix. In about 95 percent of cases of [...]
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February 6, 2010
Smoking is rightly termed’ addictive’. And why wouldn’t it be? After all, Nicotine makes the brain release dopamine, a chemicalthat causes an individual to ‘feel good’, or in an addict’s language, give ‘a high’. Percentage of smokers has reached an all time high in the past few years. GCC countries in particular have witnessed an [...]
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February 6, 2010
Transplant surgery has come a long way since the first successful attempt in 1954. For ages, surgeons toyed with the idea ofreplacing diseased organs with a healthy one from a donor. However, such a transplanted organwas recognised as a foreign invader by the recipient’s immune system and eventually rejected. Further research enlightened surgeons that an [...]
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February 5, 2010
A man who suffered a severe traumatic accident in 2003, and has been in a ‘zero-awareness’ state ever since, has responded to
doctors with ‘yes’ and ‘no’ answers to questions by wilfully changing his brain activity. Doctors were astonished to find this amount of brain activity in a patient, who was deemed far from complete recovery, [...] -
February 5, 2010
In a ground-breaking trial done by researchers at Cambridge University and published in The Lancet, scientists have developed artificial pancreas to regulate blood sugar in children with type I diabetes.
Currently, patients usually controls their symptoms of diabetes using an insulin pump and avoid injections altogether. But even the use of pumps does not eliminate the [...] -
February 4, 2010
A study conducted by researchers at the University of Edinburgh’s Centre for Reproductive Biology claimed that blood levels of a particular protein could provide early diagnosis of ectopic pregnancies.
Scientists found that blood levels of a protein ‘Activin B’ is low in women who have an ectopic pregnancy, which is indicated by the lodging of the [...] -
February 4, 2010
A recent medical study reported that taking herbal supplements like gingko biloba, St John’s Wort etc while on prescription medication for heart disease could be dangerous, especially in the elderly. The elderly are generally on more than one medication to treat multiple disease conditions, giving rise to potentially more dangerous consequences when herbal supplements are [...]
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February 3, 2010
The sun has always been seen as the source of life and healing. The birth of every organism in scientific literature has been traced back to its exposure to the rays of the sun. Even throughout history there has been no better and a more common symbol of happiness and well being than the sun, [...]
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February 3, 2010
An ongoing study by the Institute of Food Research revealed that a very common fibre found in most fruits and vegetables helps prevent cancer. Lead researcher Professor Vic Morris suggested that ‘pectin’ a fibre found in almost every fruit and vegetable from plums to potatoes has cancer-fighting potential.
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February 3, 2010
In the regional healthcare industry at the Arab Health Exhibition 2010, IBM- the world leader in developing groundbreaking technology to cater to a multitude of industries- showcased their latest innovative and smart approaches to modernize the healthcare industry in a conference, which took place in Dubai. During this conference, IBM presented their latest technological solutions [...]
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February 3, 2010
Researchers at the Karolinska revealed a novel mechanism for regulating the hormone prolactin. Prolactin is a hormone released from the pituitary gland. The release of prolactin is the signal that triggers breast milk production during nursing. The reason that why women normally do not produce milk, and men never do is for the reason that [...]
February 9, 2010
February 9, 2010
The Beacon Community Cooperative Agreement Program provides funding to communities to build and strengthen their health information technology (health IT) infrastructure and exchange capabilities to demonstrate the vision of meaningful health IT. The Curriculum Development Centers will provide $10 million in grants to institutions of higher education (or consortia thereof) to support health information technology [...]
February 9, 2010
Philips Telehealth Solutions has been chosen to provide telehealth monitors to SunCrest Healthcare, a Madison, Tenn.-based provider of home health, companion care, and therapy.
SunCrest plans to use telehealth technology to observe patients remotely, easing the in-patient load at hospitals while at the same time offering assurance to patients that they’re being regularly monitored by healthcare [...]
February 9, 2010
29 Hospitals and LHIN 3 Canada sign new deals, 30 Hospitals Launch eHealth Solutions
MEDSEEK, the leading provider of healthcare enterprise portal connectivity solutions, has announced the acquisition of 58 new hospital clients and a 53 percent increase in one-year revenue backlog, as healthcare industry changes fuel demand for its eHealth solutions.
MEDSEEK’s fiscal year revenue growth [...]
February 9, 2010
Parametric Technology Corp., a Needham-based company that refers to itself as PTC, said that GE Healthcare has selected PTC’s Windchill product lifecycle management software to replace GE’s legacy data management software.
PTC’s focus is on developing and marketing product lifecycle management software applications designed to help companies to become more efficient.
GE Healthcare is a unit of [...]
February 8, 2010
ThermoGenesis Corp (Nasdaq: KOOL | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating), a supplier of products for processing and storing adult stem cells, announced on Thursday that it has entered into a new enhanced distribution agreement with GE Healthcare, for its AXP AutoXpress (AXP) System used in the processing of cord blood.
Under the revised distribution [...]
February 8, 2010
California’s biomedical industry experienced modest job growth during the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression, but the state stands to lose some of its grip on the biomedical industry unless it can continue to attract high-paying jobs and fund innovation, according to a new report issued by the La Jolla-based California Healthcare Institute. For [...]
February 8, 2010
An Australian researcher analyzed the birthdays of Australian Football League (AFL) players and found that many were born in the early months of the year, while far fewer were born in the later months.
The Australian school year begins in January, noted Dr. Adrian Barnett, a senior research fellow at the Institute of Health and Biomedical [...]
February 8, 2010
MAKKAH: The first Saudi and fourth GCC conference on promoting health is to be held at the InterContinental Jeddah on March 15-17 with a number of specialists from the US, Europe, Saudi Arabia and other GCC countries expected to participate. Representatives from the British pharmaceutical, biological, and health care company, GlaxoSmithKline, will also attend the [...]
February 8, 2010
KUWAIT: The benefits given to disabled people as a result of the recently passed disability legislation could lead to more people feigning disability in an attempt to take advantage of the law, according to a senior official. Suad Al-Mutairi, the former Assistant Director of the Supreme Council for the Disabled, further controversially alleged that unofficial [...]
February 8, 2010
DOHA: With the scheduled opening date approaching fast, Hamad Medical Corporation
(HMC) has signed a historic five-year partnership deal with Canada-based Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) to advise on setting up state-of-the-art services at the Children’s Hospital.
The hospital, to open in 2012, will arguably, be the first tailor-made paediatric healthcare facility in the region.
The new partnership [...]
February 8, 2010
Dr. Sulaiman Al-Habib Medical Group announced that it has signed an agreement with “Al-Faisaliah Medical Systems Co.” in Dubai, under the auspices and presence of H.R.H Prince Mohamed Bin Khalid Al-Abdullah Al-Faisal, president and C.E.O. of Al-Faisaliah Holding Group, to equip the largest Cardiac Center in the private sector in KSA. The Group reported about [...]
February 8, 2010
This flagship product of the Transasia’s Urinalysis range includes Uro-dipcheck 300 – automated urine analyzer and a complete set of automated & visual urine reagent strips.
The analyzer has the flexibility to analyze both 10 parameter strips (Leucocytes, Nitrite, Urobilinogen, Protein, and pH, Blood, Specific Gravity, Ketones, Bilirubin, and Glucose) as well as 11G (with Ascorbic [...]
February 8, 2010
Medical imaging is the technique that is used to generate images of human body or parts for clinical purposes or medical science. Revolutionary advances in imaging technology provides a superior method for imaging apoptosis. A team of researchers from the University of Notre Dame and the Washington University School of Medicine elucidates the method of [...]
February 8, 2010
Medical Care Technologies Inc. has announced the initial development of Tele-Health� Suite 6.17 technology with image capture for Autism. This technology will allow families and professionals to record behaviours and catalogue them within this Medsuite� for further analysis and treatment. Diagnosis relies on behavioural observation and screening. One of the most important child health issues [...]
