GPS specialist, GTX Corp., and footwear manufacturer, Aetrex, have teamed up to develop a shoe with tiny embedded GPS tracking devices that will make keeping up with Alzheimer’s disease patients much easier, bringing safety to the patient and peace of…

President Barack Obama is a staunch advocate of ‘paperless’ hospitals, where patient records, doctors’ orders, and other medical data are kept electronically rather than on paper.  The Congressional Budget Office and other critics of the concept suggest the merits of…

The Barack Obama Administration has placed online healthcare records in the spotlight lately, in an effort that may make out-of-network reimbursement payments from insurance companies to the individuals covered under their plans happen in a timely manner but it took…

Forget the mixed-up, jumbled crazy world of health care and medical insurance as we know it today and imagine that a different, more streamlined approach to health care were in place.  While imagining this more structured approach to medicine, add…

In an effort to make home healthcare management easier and more effective for individual patients, Intel has launched pilot programs to test a computerized system that will link patients and their healthcare providers, via the internet, making it possible for…

Imagine yourself walking through the streets of a strange city.  You have places to go but, as with every journey, the destination is merely the end result.  You pass many points of interest along the way, but they are easy…

In accordance with the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Amendments Act of 2007, the federal agency has just launched a new web page devoted entirely to drug safety data that both the public and the medical community can access.  The…

Ten top doctors, researchers, and scientists have placed their entire DNA code, revealing every little secret all the way from what makes them so quirky and unique to what genetic tendencies toward what diseases they carry, in a database available…

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, along with industry partners from health and technology, are hosting a National E-prescribing Conference on October 6 – 7, 2008 at the Sheraton Boston Hotel, Boston, MA.

Surgeons at the Henry Ford Hospital have just announced their use of a three-dimensional robotic surgical technique they used to successfully remove a cancerous tumor from a 50 years old patient.  The technique, SIRS nephrectomy, allows the removal of all…

One out of every three US residents lives in a rural area that makes getting immediate medical care in times of emergency a sometimes-risky predicament.  Speed of emergency medical care is especially important with medical emergencies such as stroke, a…

Biomedical engineers at the University of California (UC) Davis have devised materials they plan to turn into contact lenses outfitted with pressure sensors and medication stores.  When the sensors detect changes in eye pressure that signal the need for medications,…

Calling their work the WEIRD project, a team of technology researchers has devised a communications system that uses the latest technologies in an easy-to-use format that can be installed in an ambulance.  The technology allows the ambulance team to relay,…

Have your ever been frustrated by your doctor’s handwriting? Illegibly written prescriptions may soon be a thing of the past and medication errors will be drastically reduced if Medicare’s new incentives for ePrescribing are embraced by physicians. The incentives include…