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Oracle Corp. to help build world's first "Digital Hospital"

Oracle Corp. and Health South Corp. together will build the worlds first "all digital hospital", according to a release on Monday, issued by the out patient surgical rehabilitation chain. The digital hospital will feature inpatient beds with display screens connected to the Internet, electronic medical records storage, digital imaging and a wireless communications network permitting docto...

Digital mammography proves effective

A new trial will compare digital mammography with the standard technique to confirm if it can detect breast cancer earlier and with more accuracy. Standard film mammography has been around for nearly 40 years now, and radiographers are familiar with the scope and limitations of the technology.// Digital mammography might be able to detect cancers in women with dense breast tissue, beca...

Digital Mammogram For Detection Of Breast Cancer In Women With Dense Breasts

Mammography is used for early detection of breast cancer and the health officials recommend women to undergo mammogram tests every year and self examination of the breasts for lumps every month for early diagnosis // of breast cancer. Early detection of cancer is necessary to start an early treatment which will give better treatment. Recent research study reported in the New England Jo...

Research into Blindness Cure Goes Digital

Researchers from Glasgow University have used technology developed for digital cameras to develop electronic implants to cure two common forms of blindness//, age related macular degeneration and retinitis pigmentosa. According to Dr Keith Mathieson, from the Glasgow University's physics department, the objective of implanting such an electronic device is to act as a mechanical retina t...

Digitalis Could Be Safe In Diastolic Heart Failure

Digitalis is a drug that is widely used in heart failure. Some experts believe that prescribing it in diastolic heart failure is contraindicated. //However a new analysis shows that the drug could be safe even in this form of heart failure. "Contrary to conventional wisdom, digitalis did not have an overall detrimental effect. The study advances our understanding of both digitalis, th...

MDCT Compared to Digital Radiography in Orthopedic Patients

Evaluation of bone healing can be primarily dome by multi-detector computed tomography (MDCT) using high-quality 2D formatting as the primary imaging// technique, according to a study done by radiologists at the Medical University of Vienna in Vienna, Austria. Forty-three patients with histories of fractures, arthrodesis (joint fusion) or spinal fusions who'd undergone MDCT and conven...

Digital ID Chips Implanted in Dogs to Prevent Rabies

Digital ID chips have been implanted in 65,000 dogs in Shanghai to improve canine management and prevent the spread of rabies after dog slaughters aimed at curbing// rabies in provinces of Yunnan and Shandong drew massive criticism. The chips contain the dog's individual ID number. To access information about the dog - photo, species, sex, colour, inoculation time, owner's address - y...

Eli Lilly Releases Digital Insulin Pen

Eli Lilly is set on releasing a new line of digital insulin pens for the US market. Currently available in Europe, Huma-Pen Memoir is thought //to help patients manage their insulin dosages and avoid dangerous overdoses. The injector, which hides a hypodermic needle, was unveiled today at Battelle. It is the newest in a line the lab designed for Eli Lilly, the Indianapolis-based pharmac...

The World's First Digital Insulin Pen With a Memory Launched

The pharmaceutical corporation, Eli Lilly and Co., launched ‘The HumaPen Memoir’ the world's first digital insulin pen with a memory, on Thursday. // The HumaPen Memoir simplifies the management of diabetic patients who require timely insulin injections. The manufacturer said, “ the pen was designed to meet the needs of people with diabetes who take several shots of mealtim...

Interactive Digital Television to Monitor Health

Alejandro Fanjul Fernández designs a telemedicine system using interactive digital television. // Telecommunications engineer at the Public University of Navarre, Alejandro Fanjul Fernández, has designed a pioneering system of telemedicine for interactive digital television. This system enables the monitoring and treatment of and support for both patients and elderly people, from the c...

Survey Finds the Impact of the Digitization of Information in Health Service

A survey of 200 patients and their representatives have looked at the growing need to understand how digitization of health information will impact upon patients//, staff and managers across the health service. The main body of research focused on experiences and perceptions of digital libraries (sources of non-personal health information). The second part of the research looked at t...

Google to Digitise 800,000 Books at Mysore Varsity

At least 800,000 books and manuscripts, including India's first political treaties the "Arthasastra" written in the 4th century B.C. by Kautilya, that are lying in Mysore University in Karnataka, will be digitised by Google, the world's leading Internet search engine. "Written in both papers and palm leaves, there are around 100,000 manuscripts in our library, some dating back to t...

Digital Music Project Aims to Save Tibetan Folk Songs from Extinction

An international team of anthropologists have embarked on a project to save Tibetan folk songs from extinction. Led by anthropology professor Gerald Roche, the volunteer-run Tibetan Endangered Music Project (TEMP) aims at digitalizing and archiving all the songs collected online, and return them back to the community. "The goal is to digitalize the songs we record and...