Oracle and its Sun Labs unit will launch the Oracle Health Sciences Institute (OHSI) to participate in research on IT systems and advanced health care. – Oracle and its Sun Microsystems Labs (Sun Labs) unit have announced plans to form the Oracle Health Sciences Institute (OHSI) to perform research on IT systems that aid health care and advance personalized medicine.
quot;IT innovation is essential to accelerating the discovery, development a…
Women who smoke regularly are four times more likely to have ectopic pregnancy than those who don”t smoke, say scientists. Researchers of the Edinburgh University have found a chemical in cigarette smoke that causes a reaction, which may lead to ectopic pregnancies. The researchers said Cotinine triggered a reaction, which increased a protein in the [...]
Polycom’s SpectraLink 8400 handsets feature barcode scanning for medical, industrial and retail environments. – Unified communications player Polycom
Sept. 21 introduced its SpectraLink 8400 series handsets, which offer barcoding
capabilities geared toward mobile workers in the health care, industrial,
retail and hospitality industries.
The SpectraLink 8400 is the first wireless handset to feature an inte…
Oracle launches a new security governance product to help health care organizations deal with privacy breaches. – Oracle is targeting the health care industry with an integrated,
out-of-the-box security governance solution.
The company announced the tool, dubbed Oracle Security Governor for
Healthcare, today at the Oracle OpenWorld conference in San
Francisco. A component of the Oracle Health Management
Pl…
A new study has revealed that a drug used to treat patients with high cholesterol levels could also be helpful in treating prostate cancer. Rosuvastatin—a statin drug sold as Crestor—suppressed the growth of transplanted human prostate cancer cells in mice. Dr. Xiao-Yan Wen and his colleagues at St. Michael”s Hospital screened 2,000 small molecules in [...]
NaviNet’s health industry messaging network will run Prematics’ clinical application on mobile devices, providing access to medication information and health plans. – NaviNet,
an Internet-based provider of real-time health messaging, has joined with
mobile health provider Prematics
to expand physicians’ access to clinical information at the point of
care.
quot;Whether it’s a vision test or foot exam, to get
that information at the point of patient encoun…
Motorola says its new MC75A0-HC Enterprise Digital Assistant for the health care field is rugged and disinfectant-ready for hospital environments. – Motorola has unveiled a new push-to-talk mobile device to withstand the drops and spills of a hospital environment. The Motorola MC75A0-HC Rugged Healthcare Enterprise Digital Assistant (EDA) allows doctors and nurses to enter patient data at bedside in a hospital environment where despite their pre…
Dell’s Streak tabletlike device, powered by Google Android, gets integration with the company’s health care industry solutions. – Computer maker Dell announced it is expanding its electronic medical records
(EMR) and Mobile Clinical Computing (MCC)
solutions to include the Google Android-powered Streak 5-inch tablet. The
integration with the Streak is designed to help reduce compatibility issues
that can surface between PD…
Eating a portion of watercress every day could help prevent breast cancer, according to a new research. Researchers at the University of Southampton say that the vitamin-packed salad veg may provide one of the first natural defences against the disease. They found that a cereal bowl-sized helping of the superfood triggered changes in blood cells [...]
Former Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz will attempt to steer his career into a successful new phase with a startup health care IT Website named "Picture of Health." – Jonathan
Schwartz, the former CEO of Sun
Microsystems, has formed a health care IT firm with the corporate name of
Informed Biometry and the Website name Picture of Health. Schwartz, who is also CEO
of the new company, told eWEEK in a Sept. 13 e-mail that the corporate name
will quot;fade into…
Taking a dip in indoor chlorinated pools may induce genotoxicity (DNA damage that may lead to cancer) as well as respiratory problems, revealed a study. However, the authors of the study claimed that the positive health effects of swimming could be maintained by reducing pool levels of the chemicals behind these potential health risks. The [...]
PricewaterhouseCoopers finds that 40 percent of Americans would pay for a mobile device to send health data to doctors. Three in 10 Americans would use the telehealth features. – A new report by consulting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers
reveals that 40 percent of Americans would pay for a mobile device to keep
track of their vital signs and send the data remotely to their doctor.
PwC made the presentation called quot;Healthcare Unwired quot; on Sept. 8
at the mHealth Initi…
In Yorktown Heights, N.Y., IBM has built a mock set of the popular game show "Jeopardy" to a test a new type of supercomputer called "Watson." Watson is based on the same type of technology as Big Blue’s other Blue Gene supercomputers and uses natural language technologies. Right now, Watson is the most visible of several research projects under way at IBM’s two upstate New York research facilities named after T.J. Watson. About a 15-minute drive from Yorktown Heights, IBM has another research facility in Hawthorne to showcase the company’s inventions and innovations from the 1950s through present day. The two facilities are also home to IBM’s analytics research division, which is using mathematics and complex algorithms to solve problems facing governments, businesses and scientific research. Here, eWEEK takes a tour of both of the IBM research facilities, where projects range from solving railroads issues to health care advances to how retail companies can better serve customers in their stores. – …
At its upstate New York facility, IBM researchers are tackling a number of issues that range from business analytics and IT services to health care. – YORKTOWN HEIGHTS, N.Y. quot;Watson quot;
isnt brushing up on any trivia today.
Watson, now maybe the worlds most well-known supercomputer (with its own
New York Times Magazine profile to prove it), is half hidden behind a black
curtain and stationed in the mock quot;Jeopardy quot; studio that …
With the science of nutrition, medicine, and psychology rapidly unveiling new information our bodies almost daily, it’s hard to keep track on what is considered healthy. Below are fifteen things that were once celebrated as healthy, but are now decidedly unhealthy.
A Deloitte report finds that the combination of mobile devices and electronic health records is a "killer app" with significant benefits for patients. – The Deloitte Center for Health Solutions has released a report showing how mobile technology can improve people’s health and reduce health-care costs.
The company describes electronic medical records on mobile devices as the quot;killer app quot; that will affect the health care industry.
qu…
Health Minister Tomica Milosavljević and his Albanian counterpart Petrit Vasili reached an agreement on cooperation between the two countries’ hospitals. Cooperation would begin between Serbian and Albanian hospitals and health care institutions based on the memorandum of understanding signed in Belgrade in July.
