GIS in Medical News

ESRI Health GIS Conference to Feature Speakers Innovating Health Care

Hear the Latest on Health Care Delivery and Information Technology Trends Redlands, CA (PRWEB) June 3, 2009 -- Changing global health is challenging health professionals everywhere to rethink how they work. The ESRI Health GIS Conference provides opportunities for hea...

A new computer modeling program can help hospitals prepare for the worst

... 30 minutes compared to two hours of an incident diminished mortality and waiting times and reduced the number of patients who were severely affected. gis portability to other urban locations was demonstrated. "An agent-based modeling approach," the authors write, "provides a mechanism to assess compl...

Focus on Rapid Medical Response to Improve the Quality of Healthcare and Drive the Ambulance Services Market in Europe, According to Frost & Sullivan

...t regional levels, usually related to ambulance equipment and staff requirements/training. In addition, advanced technologies such as telemedicine and gis are dependent on regional regulations, making it harder for their effective integration with ambulances. "It is important for healthcare systems ...

Maplecroft Flu Pandemic Maps Reveal Countries Most at Risk

... Maplecroft specialises in the analysis and creative visualisation of global risks. Our comprehensive portfolio of indicators, reports and interactive gis maps provide clients with innovative ways to manage and mitigate risk. These tools assess vulnerability to over 100 global risks and allow major inter...

China Information Security Technology, Inc. Announces that Its Medical Case Statistics Software Selected for Exclusive Contract

...gement. Its main business lines range from digital information security, to gis and digital hospital information systems. The Company provides a broad port...System, Residence Card Information Management System, Police- and Civil-use gis products, and Digital Hospital Information System, to serve the growing dem...

Papua New Guinea declares first national conservation area

...ark Zoo and CI. "The conservation area will help the people of YUS better manage their natural resources," said Karau Kuna, Jr., a PNG national and gis Mapping Coordinator for TKCP. "The YUS Conservation Area is part of PNG's contribution to the worldwide community in the fight against global warming ...

Growing Shortage of Gastroenterologists to Affect Screening Capacity for #2 Cancer Killer

...umber of GI fellowships now, a process that will take several years to show results." The Lewin study found that training approximately 130 additional gis per year (a 33 percent increase from current planned levels) starting in 2011 would increase supply by 1,550 gastroenterologists by 2020. Olympu...

Berkshire Medical Center Selects Desktop Alert for Mass Notification Solutions

... is now in use in several high security installations. Website http://www.protexx.com . About Desktop Alert, Inc.: Desktop Alert is multi-media, gis enabled mass notification platform used to deliver rich media such as live surveillance video, images, audio files, giant voice, interactive Flash fil...

Berkshire Medical Center Selects Desktop Alert for Mass Notification Solutions

... is now in use in several high security installations. Website http://www.protexx.com . About Desktop Alert, Inc.: Desktop Alert is multi-media, gis enabled mass notification platform used to deliver rich media such as live surveillance video, images, audio files, giant voice, interactive Flash fil...

Researchers probe geographical ties to ALS cases among 1991 Gulf War veterans

... To narrow down the possibilities, Miranda and fellow investigators used gis analysis, which allows researchers to layer different kinds of information ...ed to low levels of nerve agent" at Khamisayah, the new report said. The gis mapping revealed that "there were some areas where there appeared to be an ...

Microsoft Announces Alliance to Accelerate Consumer-Centered Delivery of Health and Human Services

...evaluate services and initiate emergency response. ESRI deployments include West Nile virus surveillance in Pennsylvania, Advanced Emergency gis (AEGIS) at Loma Linda University Medical Center, a vaccination stockpile in Nebraska, and a public health data and emergency management info...

NEWSWEEK: Media Lead Sheet/April 21, 2008 Issue (on newsstands Monday, April 14).

...ms in Iraq, less than a handful can be described loosely as Middle East experts, and only three speak Arabic. The rest are social scientists or former gis who are transposing research skills from their unrelated fields at home. http://www.newsweek.com/id/131752 JONATHAN ALTER: "Boycott Opening Cere...

Signaling protein helps limit damage in heart attack, Jefferson scientists show

...ific Gi inhibitor, Dr. Koch explains, is an important step to understanding gis role and behavior. We dont have to worry about what receptor we are blockin...d. As a result, the heart cant pump as well. They would like to find out gis role in chronic heart failure, where there is much less cell death occurrin...

Molecular alliance that sustains embryonic stem cell state

...hy such a potent reprogramming factor has no role in ES cell biology," said gis scientist Ng Huck Hui, Ph.D., who headed the research team. Other members o...versity of Singapore and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The gis research team found that when Klf4 was depleted, Klf2 and Klf5 took over Kl...

Two Studies Cast Further Doubt on the Effectiveness of Low GI/GL Diets for Weight Loss

...wer calories per day) and had similar macronutrient distributions (i.e., carbohydrate, protein and fat); all that distinguished the two diets were the gis of the foods. The high GI diet contained a hefty dose of potatoes and other commonly identified high GI foods (e.g., bananas, watermelon, rice and whi...

"Campus Alert by VoiceGate" introduced at Internet Telephony(R) Conference and Expo

...: phone, cell phone, answering machine, voice mail, fax, SMS, pager, any internet ready device - and now, "bulk" networked display notification. The gis capability of our HIPPA and FERPA compliant Emergency e-response mass message delivery system, coupled with the new Campus Alert functionality, will e...

New study shows world's protected areas threatened by climate change

...ersity of Wisconsin, and two members of CIs Center for Applied Biodiversity Science Jenny Hewson, a remote sensing specialist, and Erica Ashkenazi, a gis specialist. ...

NetSuite Partners Introduce New Vertical Versions of NetSuite and Horizontal Extensions to Core NetSuite Functionality

... critical assets such as oil and gas tanks. Clicking on a trade-partner port can pop-open the Automated Identification System (AIS) tracking ships via gis for that port. NetSuite had the core global capabilities, including telephony, emailing, multi-language and multi-currency that seaports and their cli...

VIDEO from Medialink and General Mills: Ellen DeGeneres Teams Up with Pink for the Cure

...a Native women. It impacts hundreds of thousands each year, and not just those who have been diagnosed with it. (See video from General Mills (NYSE: gis ) at: http://media.medialink.com/WebNR.aspx?story=33921 ) Talk show host Ellen DeGeneres has teamed up with Pink for the Cure, a fundraising and edu...

VIDEO from Medialink and General Mills: Digestive Health

...national survey, nearly half of women surveyed say they care about this issue when it comes to staying healthy. (See video from General Mills (NYSE: gis ) at: http://media.medialink.com/WebNR.aspx?story=33882 ) One way to do that is by consuming what are called probiotics. Probiotics help people reg...

Lab-on-chip testing for 'bird flu' developed by Singapore scientists

...conditions for the PCR assay. We are very pleased to see that these techniques were an advantage in improving the development of the new platform." gis co-author, Dr Lisa Ng, who was a co-inventor in another Avian Flu (H5N1) detection kit using GIS' proprietary nucleic acid diagnostic primers, played ...

UNH, state health agency, private industry and NASA to tackle Lyme disease

...ch team is to establish a center of excellence in the application of geospatial technology - satellite remote sensing, global positioning systems, and gis - for disease ecology and public health at UNH. The program aims to substantially raise the competitiveness of research programs in the state and to p...

Americans Grow Shorter, Blame It on Weak Healthcare

..., with the tallest men in the world going back as far as the data exists (at least to the mid-19th century). During the First World War, American gis still towered over the Europeans they liberated. But for three decades beginning at the end of World War Two, Americans' average height stagnated whil...

Presidential Commission Wants Proper Care of Wounded Soldiers at Their Homes

...dential commission investigating the plight of the soldiers wounded in the killing fields of Iraq and Afghanistan has focused on efforts to enable the gis receive proper treatment in their own homes . During its seventh and last hearing Friday, the Commission admitted todays veterans are more lik...