Tag: software
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Recommended Heart Failure Meds Save Lives, and Maybe Money
Medical researchers at University of California in Los Angeles found medications recommended in national guidelines for heart failure are cost-effective in saving patient lives and could also provide financial savings for the national health care system. The findings of the team led by Gregg Fonarow, director of the cardiomyopathy center at UCLA, appear in the…
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Cancer Analytics Prototype Based on Patient Records Unveiled
American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) in Alexandria, Virginia demonstrated a prototype of its CancerLinq system based on information in patient records that aims to provide clinicians with better tools for decision-making. ASCO demonstrated the system yesterday at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. The goal of CancerLinq is to provide cancer physicians and…
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Accelerator Offers Mobile Medical App Regulatory Guide
Rock Health, a health care start-up accelerator in San Francisco, prepared an online guide to help developers of medical apps for mobile devices better understand the Food and Drug Administration’s review processes. The guide is written as an online slide presentation, viewable below and available through SlideShare. The need for the guide is growing, says…
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Portable White Blood Cell Measurement Device Developed
Engineers at California Institute of Technology in Pasadena and the medical device company LeukoDx in Jerusalem, Israel developed a portable device to count white blood cells requiring only a drop of blood and a few minutes to run. The team led by Cal Tech electrical engineering professor Yu-Chong Tai published its findings in the 7…
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Database Enables Documentation of Rare Genetic Disorders
A new online database developed by Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore and Baylor College of Medicine in Houston will make it possible for researchers and clinicans to collect data on diseases caused by single faulty genes. The database, known as PhenoDB is described in a recent online issue of the journal Human Mutation. PhenoDB is…
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Hospital, Community MRSA Forms Predicted to Coexist
Epidemiologists and mathematicians at Princeton University in New Jersey developed a computer model of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) transmission that shows the two leading forms of the bacteria will both continue to exist, without one dominating the other. The team working under the direction of population biologist Bryan Grenfell published its findings online in a…
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Software Advances Improve Cardiac Ultrasound Images
Biomedical engineers at University of Oxford in the U.K. developed software that they say enhances the ultrasound image quality of the heart. The original research, funded by the U.K.’s Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, led to a start-up company to commercialize the technology, which is on display today at the Healthcare Innovation Expo 2013…
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Dementia Screening Test Adapted for Smartphone App
Neuroscientists and clinicians from the U.K. and Australia translated a paper-based screening test for dementia into a smartphone app that the developers believe will make the tool more accurate and widely used. The researchers from Plymouth University in the U.K., Derriford Plymouth Hospitals, and Neuroscience Research Australia in Sydney unveiled an advance version of the…
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Computer Model Identifies Concussion-Producing Conditions
Researchers at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore and University of Ottawa in Canada developed a technique that combines computer modeling and imaging to calcuate damage capable of causing head trauma and concussion. The team led by Johns Hopkins engineering professor K.T. Ramesh published its findings in a recent issue of the Journal of Neurotrauma (paid…
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Robotics Cloud Software Platform Being Demonstrated
Computer scientists and engineers at five European universities and the Dutch electronics company Phillips designed and are implementing an Internet-based robotics software repository to relieve individual robots of heavy processing tasks. Workshops on cloud robotics, featuring hands-on practice with the RoboEarth system, are being offered next week at the euRobotics Forum in Lyon, France. RoboEarth…