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 Knitted Glove Massages the Hand to Treat Edema
Medgadget - (Tuesday May 9, 2023) A team of medical engineers at Cornell University has developed a knitted glove that is designed to treat hand edema, where fluid accumulation leads to swelling in the hands. The condition can make it…  Immunotherapy Implant to Treat Pancreatic Cancer
Medgadget - (Tuesday May 9, 2023) Researchers at Houston Methodist have developed an implant that can provide localized and sustained release of immunotherapies to treat pancreatic cancer. Their device is tiny, at approximately the size of a grain of rice,… |
 Antibiotic Susceptibility Testing Using Simple Microscope and Smartphone
Medgadget - (Tuesday May 9, 2023) Researchers at Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland have developed a simple and rapid technique to assess the antibiotic susceptibility of bacterial samples. At present, this is time consuming and inefficient, often…  How One Company Is Tackling Medication Adherence
MedCity News - (Tuesday May 9, 2023) Mail order pharmacies like Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Company and Amazon’s RxPass are making prescription drugs more accessible and affordable. But there’s one thing these companies are missing: in-depth consultations with pharmacists, a… |
 Q/A: CalmWave CEO Talks Leveraging AI to Reduce Alarm Fatigue
HIT Consultant - (Monday May 8, 2023) Ophir Ronen, CEO of CalmWave, Inc. What You Should Know:Healthcare providers face the difficult challenge of coping with an ever-increasing workload while still providing high-quality patient care and trying to retain their staff. As the…  5G Improves Patient and Staff Experience at NGHS
Healthcare IT Today - (Monday May 8, 2023) 5G means much more to healthcare than just faster cellular speeds. 5G is a technology that can help improve both patient and staff experience WITHOUT the need for extensive training or changes to workflows…. |
 How to Navigate Structured and Unstructured Data as a Healthcare Organization
HealthTech Magazine - (Monday May 8, 2023) The proliferation of unstructured data in healthcare can pose data retention, purging and destruction challenges as well. The issue isn’t the amount of data that must be stored and the length of time it…  FDA Clears Samsung’s Irregular Heart Rhythm Notification
HIT Consultant - (Monday May 8, 2023) What You Should Know:Today, Samsung announced today its Irregular Heart Rhythm Notification feature of the Samsung Health Monitor App has been cleared by the FDA. With this new feature, Galaxy Watch users can be alerted when… |
 Curbside Consult with Dr. Jayne 5/8/23
HIStalk - (Monday May 8, 2023) I’m back in the air this week with some weekend travel, which I don’t usually do. My flight was nearly all vacation travelers. The boarding process started with someone spilling his coffee all over…  Machine Learning Helps Identify Pneumonia as Driver of COVID-19 Deaths
Health IT Analytics - (Monday May 8, 2023) By Shania Kennedy May 08, 2023 – Northwestern University researchers found that secondary bacterial pneumonia was a major driver of COVID-19 deaths in critically ill patients following a machine learning (ML)-based analysis of medical record data. |
