Tag: software
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Virtual Reality System Developed to Track Crowd Moves
8 July 2014. A psychology research group at Brown University in Providence is using virtual reality to detect and document patterns of autonomous individuals taking part in crowds. The system developed by Brown’s Virtual Environment Navigation lab was described last week by its director William Warren in a keynote address at a meeting of the…
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Big Data Quickly Identify Foodborne Illness Sources
3 July 2014. Data analysts and public health experts at the IBM research center in San Jose, California developed techniques for faster identification of sources of foodborne diseases from available public health and retail sales data. The team led by IBM’s James Kaufman, the company’s public health research manager, published its findings today online in…
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Online Clinical Trial with Children Tests Autism Therapy
30 June 2014. Researchers at University of California in San Francisco and Kennedy Krieger Institute in Baltimore completed a clinical trial conducted entirely online testing the ability of omega-3 fatty acids to control hyperactivity in children with autism. The team led by UC-San Francisco medical professor Stephen Bent published its findings in this month’s issue…
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Spin-Off Licenses Genomic Technology from Wash. University
30 June 2014. PierianDx, a new company formed by medical faculty and practitioners at Washington University in St. Louis, licensed genomic technology from the university to commercialize diagnostic tools for personalized medicine. Financial details of the licensing deal were not disclosed. The start-up company plans to offer the technology in a system developed internally by…
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Big Data Analytics ID People Risking Metabolic Syndrome
27 June 2014. Researchers from the insurance provider Aetna Inc. and GNS Healthcare, a data analytics company in the health care industry, developed statistical models that can identify population groups and individuals at risk for metabolic syndrome, a collection of conditions pointing to future heart disorders and diabetes. The team from Aetna’s Innovation Labs in…
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Outpatient Safety Net Harnesses Electronic Health Data
25 June 2014. The Kaiser Permanente health plan in Southern California, headquartered in Pasadena, established a follow-up monitoring system for plan members visiting doctors’ offices or outpatient clinics that scans its electronic health records database for gaps in outpatient care. A team from Kaiser Permanente’s Southern California network, led by regional quality and clinical analysis…
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Paralyzed Man Moves Hand with Neuro-Signal Implant System
24 June 2014. Engineers at Battelle Memorial Institute and physicians at Ohio State University medical center in Columbus demonstrated a device that enables people with a spinal cord injury to direct movement of limbs with their thoughts. The research team’s first patient is Ian Burkhart, a 23 year-old man from Dublin, Ohio taking part in…
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Challenge Seeks Development Partner for Nanotech Biosensor
20 June 2014. A new challenge on InnoCentive calls for a medical technology company or institute to develop a new type of nanoscale biosensor for diagnostic and therapeutic applications. The challenge has no immediate financial award, but winners of the competition will earn the right to negotiate a compensated collaboration contract with the Cleveland Clinic,…
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FDA Issues Draft Industry Guidance on Social Media
18 June 2014. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued draft guidance for medical products companies on their use of social media to communicate with patients. The agency announced yesterday the documents’ availability for comment in a blog post authored by Thomas Abrams, director of FDA’s prescription drug information office. Abrams says the documents —…
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Code Language Developed for Building Lab-On-Chip Devices
17 June 2014. Engineers at University of California in Riverside developed a programming language to automate the design of lab-on-a-chip devices used in medical diagnostics and other life science applications. The team from the lab of computer science and engineering professor Philip Brisk published its results in a recent issue of the ACM Journal on…