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Healthinnovations is an off shoot of the Twitter hashtag #healthinnovations which now has over 166 unique users a month from all sectors of healthcare.
The aim of healthinnovations is to help bring all factions of healthcare, ehealth, health, social media, IT, pharma, science and the pharmaceutical industry to open source and work together to further innovation and move towards a cost effective, efficacious model.
The Healthinnovations community is an open source information portal to marry the world of social media, the science of healthcare and the pharmaceuticals industry to further innovation in this space.
According to a study published online in the Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, children with cerebral palsy (CP) may benefit from playing active video games (AVG), such...
Computer-generated implants that help nerves rewire themselves could improve the chances of restoring movement and sensation in severely injured limbs.
A low-cost and non-invasive test could help in the fight against anaemia in rural India.
A tiny prototype robot that functions like a living creature is being developed which one day could be safely used to pinpoint diseases within the human body.Called 'Cyberplasm', it will...
Infectious diseases can spread very rapidly, so quickly identifying them can be crucial to stopping an epidemic. However, current testing for such diseases can take hours and days.
The Moffit Cancer Center has received a new patent for a computerized system that efficiently matches the right patient with the right clinical trial.
Children are naturally drawn toward gaming and other types of technology, creating an ideal opportunity to design interactive media tools to encourage physical activity and promote healthy eating...
Imagine a device combining sensors to measure physiological changes.
Ever found yourself without a signal and wished you could just spray one on like magic?
Researchers have developed a type of wearable, non-invasive electronic device that can monitor vital signs such as heart rate and respiration at the same time it records a person's activity level,...
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Magnet-making bacteria may be building biological computers of the future, researchers say.
An international team of scientists has created an innovative tool for teaching the fundamentals of epidemiology - the science of how infectious diseases move through a population.The te...
The 'big data' tsunami hits the U.S. EHR system...
A test to show whether wounds or lesions have been infected with bacteria including MRSA is developed by Edinburgh University scientists.
How we move is an excellent indicator of overall health. When we feel good, we move around continually. When we're in pain, we reduce our physical activity.
The number of hospitals using IT (information technology) over the last two years has more than doubled over the last 24 months, Kathleen Sebelius, US HHS (Department of Health and Human Services)...
US scientists say they have taken a step towards microchips being implanted under a patient's skin to control the release of drugs.
A new push is under way to improve the care people get after they call 911, when minutes can make the difference between life and death.
Computers are coming to the rescue of the research amateur in astronomy and cases tied to Parkinson's disease.
Despite a national mandate to implement electronic health records and computer order entry systems (CPOE) by 2014, only approximately 30 percent of hospitals nationwide have done so and around 40...
An 83-year-old woman is fitted with a jaw made by a 3D printer in what doctors say is the first operation of its kind.
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