Feature | Dave Fornell

Personal digital assistants (PDAs) have found a niche in the healthcare market since their inception several years ago, and today the devices give doctors and nurses a critical wireless connection to patient records and Web-based databases to aid diagnosis and treatment.

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June 12, 2008 - There is a lack of universally applied standards for administering radiopharmaceutical doses to children ...

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Feature | Dave Fornell

When I attended the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) conference in February in Orlando, it ...

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Feature | Maureen Leahy-Patano

Nurses are the primary healthcare providers in the U.S. today, taking on more and more responsibilities within the hospital and often working long, irregular shifts. A physically demanding profession, nursing is consistently listed as one of the top 10 occupations for work-related musculoskeletal disorders, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

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June 12, 2008 – In its post-congress report, the Association of periOperative Registered Nurses (AORN) 55th annual ...

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June 12, 2008 - The higher the level of nicotine in the toenails, the higher the risk of coronary heart disease (CAD) ...

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Feature | Dave Fornell and Caitlin Hosty

In addition to the key function mobile computing serves to enter real-time, bedside information into patients’ ...

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June 12, 2008 - Sorin Group closed the sale of its peripheral stent business to Datascope Corp., divesting its noncore ...

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Feature | Dave Fornell

New technology has helped miniaturized bar-code drug administration and patient monitoring systems, eliminating the need for bulky machines or cart-based devices. The pocket-sized devices have helped increase patient safety and help speed triage and diagnosis. Alternatives to cart-based drug administration

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June 11, 2008 - TraumaCure Inc. said last week the DOD Joint Committee on Tactical Combat Casualty Care (CoTCCC) ...

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Researchers are using speckle tracking imaging in heart ultrasound to monitor the health of transplant acceptance, and ...

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June 10, 2008 - The use of ultrasound contrast agents during stress echocardiograms is safe, according to results ...

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June 10, 2008 - OrbusNeich received CE Mark approval for the Scoreflex coronary dilatation catheter, a new product that ...

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June 10, 2008 – A new calcium scoring method, which takes into account not only the amount of calcified plaque build-up ...

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OrbusNeich's Scoreflex coronary dilatation catheter, which is only CE Mark approval, but not yet FDA cleared, is a new ...

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