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For nearly as long as smartphones have existed, people have been putting them in rice after dropping them in water. This often-repeated “trick” to save a water-logged phone has gone too far. Allow us to explain. Where Did It Come From? The rice trick has been around forever and there’s probably a good chance you’ve …
Can you imagine a future in which babies wear smart clothing to track their every move? It may sound like something from science fiction, but a romper suit being piloted in Helsinki, Copenhagen, and Pisa does exactly that. The ‘motor assessment of infants jumpsuit’ (MAIJU) looks like typical baby clothing, but there is a crucial …
When Dr. Isaias Irgau and Kemal Erkan purchased a failing ambulatory surgery center in 2014 and turned it into the American Surgery Center, they inherited the problems and inefficiencies that came with the old center’s business practices. These included a medical record system that still was 100% pen and paper. Patients’ charts and medical histories were …
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CVS on Thursday announced the launch of its new CVS Health Virtual Primary Care service. WHY IT MATTERS The new offering integrates patient engagement tools, telehealth, electronic health record data and more on a single platform that can connect consumers with clinicians at CVS or other providers. The tool enables patients to choose care in …
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ChristianaCare this week announced some new help to augment its workforce: robotic assistants that can help nurses and other hospital staff spend more time with patients by automatic certain time-intensive tasks. WHY IT MATTERS The technology, called Moxi, is a collaborative robot that can work alongside nurses and interact with them directly, performing nonclinical tasks …
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Pen CS appoints former AMA official as chief medical advisor Health informatics firm Pen CS has named Dr Kean-Seng Lim as its new chief medical advisor. Dr Lim is a general practitioner at Mt Druitt Medical Centre in western Sydney. He previously held leadership roles as president of the New South Wales chapter of the …
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CynergisTek, the longtime privacy, security and health IT audit company, agreed this week to be acquired by Clearwater, which specializes in cyber compliance and risk management services for healthcare clients. WHY IT MATTERS The agreement stipulates an all cash transaction worth some $17.7 million. With a successful completion of the merger, CynergisTek investors will receive …
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Geisinger has selected Amazon Web Services as its cloud vendor. The Danville, Pennsylvania-based health system will transition its entire digital portfolio of more than 400 applications and numerous workflows to AWS. This deal marks one of the biggest electronic health record moves to AWS so far. Earlier this week, Tufts Medicine announced its own sprawling …
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AFC Urgent Care in Memphis, Tennessee, is affiliated with a national franchise, but independently owned and operated. Like most urgent care practices, the clinic has a small staff of two full-time physicians, one part-time physician, and a small auxiliary of medical assistants, X-ray technicians and office staff. THE PROBLEM Like many small urgent care clinics …
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Health and Social Care Northern Ireland (HSCNI) is working with healthcare technology specialist, Tegria, and digital health consultancy, Cloud21 to support its national digital transformation programme. The organisations will help to deliver Northern Ireland’s Encompass programme – a decade long initiative to implement a fully integrated electronic health and care record across acute physical, mental health, …
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