Scientists in Italy think they may have come up with a new way to scan for cancer of the stomach or colon. The ‘spider pill’, which is fitted with a camera, is swallowed by the patient and once within the colon or intestine the legs are opened. Duncan Kennedy reports.
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Mobile Healthcare Industry Summit 2009, a unique two-day event set in London on 1-2 December. Dedicated to best practice in global wireless and healthcare convergence, this four stream conference has been developed with support from the Continua Health Alliance, GSMA, M:Health Alliance, international healthcare providers including the NHS, Bluetooth SIG, Mobihealthnews.com and more, to ensure [...]
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New models of healthcare are needed for Europe’s ageing population. Intel believes that new digital technologies have a key role to play and telehealth technology could support the shift to a new model of care closer to the home. To read more about this follow the link to the page new model for healthcare. Intel [...]
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Published Date: 06 September 2009 By Hilary Duncanson SCOTLAND is ideally placed to lead the way in creating healthcare technologies for the global market, experts said yesterday ahead of a summit on the issue. Strathclyde University and the Institute for System Level Integration will bring together business leaders and academic researchers this month to identify [...]
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By Tristan Stewart Robertson THINK of the future of medical technology and the image of hand-held scanners from the world of Star Trek might come to mind – machines able to diagnose anything in a few moments. But Star Trek did not show the practicalities of health care in the future. There was no washing [...]
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Emma Wilkinson Health reporter, BBC News Some people may prefer to see a therapist in person The NHS should offer online psychological counselling for people with depression, a leading mental health expert says. A Lancet study of online cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT) showed it more than doubled the chances of recovery. Dr Tim Kendall, who [...]
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The Evening News reported that Edinburgh pharmacists are to offer heart checks on the Cariopod. Telehealth Solutions’ CardioPod is a system for facilitating the NHS Health Check. CardioPod features: • Can be installed on a small portable touchscreen device for community use • Can be installed on a large touchscreen device for use in GP [...]
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Intel Healthcare recently ran a webinar on the 20th of August about mobile point of care technology. Mobile point of care technology is key to improving both workflow and patient outcomes. If your organisation is identifying critical components and determining plans find out fromthree industry thought leaders on how other hospitals and healthcare organisations are [...]
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New Technology from Cisco & Intel allows for greater possibilities in rural areas. Mobile World Congress 2009: 4G Possibilities to Life [youtube 3PA2osEMUic]
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Wicab, Inc out of Middleton, Wisconsin is developing a device that converts visual images into electrical signals that are fed to a user’s tongue via a special “lollipop”. A special electrode panel of the lollipop essentially draws images on the tongue by firing electric pulses on some of the pixels and not others, supposedly producing [...]
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