hospitals

A Glimpse Into What’s Hopefully the Future of Healthcare

You know Frog Design even if you don’t know Frog Design. Their ideas influenced companies including Sony and Apple. And in a recent piece for Fast Company, they presented a thesis on a tech-savvy future for healthcare that’s worth reading. The entire article is 9 pages of well-reasoned scenarios involve wireless devices galore, dynamic health…

Tech News Mark Wilson Oct 6

Microsoft Wants You to Vote Which Children’s Hospitals Will Be Denied the Ultimate Gameroom

Microsoft’s “Ultimate Gameroom Giveaway” is charity turned into a gimmick as voters decide which Children’s hospitals receive prize packages. I’m all for charity, but was it really necessary to guarantee a let down for kids in the 167 “losing” hospitals? The three hospitals to receive an Ultimate Gameroom through Microsoft’s partnership with the Children’s Miracle…

Tech News Rosa Golijan Sep 6

New Bleach Paint Could Actually Make Hospitals Sterile

The world’s first broad-spectrum antimicrobial paint has been developed by scientists from South Dakota. It kills mold, fungi, viruses and even “superbug” bacteria. The new polymer is a mixture of normal latex paint and bleach-like N-halamines. It’s capable of wiping out even tough, antibiotic-resistant microbes—the source of 88,000 hospital-induced deaths a year according to the…

Tech News Mark Wilson Apr 20

New da Vinci Robot Displays Your Internal Organs in 3D HD!

It’s the ultimate home theater system that you’ll (hopefully) never be conscious to see. The old da Vinci was alright, but the new da Vinci Si surgical system displays your intestines in 3D HD (a perspective created through a double-camera, double-display stereoscopic system) so that a surgeon can marvel at the efficiency of your GI…

Tech News Mark Wilson Apr 6

Vioguard Germ-Fighting Keyboard Retracts For a UV Light Bath

We have all heard horror stories about how keyboards have more germs than a toilet seat right? Now a startup called Vioguard is taking this issue seriously with a self-sanitizing keyboard for hospitals. As you can see in the TechFlash interview, the Vioguard works by automatically retracting into the monitor base for a germ-killing UV…

Tech News Sean Fallon Mar 13

Stitching Wounds Using Lasers

We know lasers cut things, but now they’re being used to stitch things up too? Doctors at Tel Aviv University have figured out a way to weld skin shut by meticulously control a laser’s heat. The scientists discovered that this method of mending makes the skin less likely to tear and is much more watertight…

Health Elaine Chow Feb 13

Waterbirth Vessel Concept Recreates the ‘Tide at Omaha Beach’ in Your Hot Tub

A word of warning if you end up installing the Waterbirth Vessel in your home: Be sure to clean it out before the guests arrive for that big hot tub party you’ve been planning (the placenta floats, fyi). More seriously, this design from Darling Dushinka sports an adjustable seat, massaging jets, overhead bars and supports,…

Tech News Jack Loftus Nov 2

Intel Health Guide Lets Doctors Check Up On You Electronically

Intel’s taking some serious steps into the medical world with its just-FDA-approved Intel Health Guide, an 8lb gadget that functions as a personal health care system. The Health Guide includes a small touch-screen PC running Windows XP and a web portal that helps connect patients and doctors. The computer can be used to remind patients…

Tech News Elaine Chow Jul 12

Canadian Cops Tase Knife-Wielding 82-Year-Old Patient in his Hospital Bed

The cops in Canada seem to be getting the hang of the Taser business. Mounties summoned to a British Columbia hospital tased an octogenarian patient after he pulled a knife from his pocket. Eighty-two-year-old Frank Lasser, who was suffering from pneumonia and had been admitted to Royal Inland Hospital in Kamloops, claimed that sometimes he…

Gadgets AddyDugdale May 10

Air Disinfection Unit to Make Hospitals Cleaner, Safer

Hospitals and germ freaks rejoice! English tech company Inov8 (sounds a bit ravey, doesn’t it?) has come up with the Air Disinfection unit, or AD. It re-creates fresh air, which is a key factor in killing microbes, without the need for opening a window in the operating theater. Any surgeons or hospital staff reading, that…

Health Ad Dugdale Jun 20

Hospital Food Ordering Goes Wireless

Is it just me, or is this stuff delicious as hell? I could eat mounds of hospital gelatin and die happy. Regardless, AP-HP, lle-de-France’s university and regional hospital center, has chosen Symbol Technologies (with partners Enterprise Mobility and Solutys) to supply hospitals with a wireless food ordering service for patients. Symbol is supplying the PDA…

Tech News Travis Hudson Aug 11

Voicecom Hospital Badges

A hospital in the UK is introducing a communication system that is integrated into the ID badges of employees. The entire system is hands-free and voice activated. Think of it as a walkie-talkie integrated into the ID badge. It functions with a VoIP network over a Wi-Fi connection throughout the hospital. Simply say the person’s…

Tech News Travis Hudson May 31

Digital Medical Records on the Go

Global Care Quest is working in conjunction with the UCLA Medical Center to eliminate paper trail problems. The system they are installing is a patient retrieval system accessible wirelessly. There are two optional ways in which the hospital staff would be able to receive information; the first of which being through PDA’s and smartphones. It…

Tech News Travis Hudson Oct 21

A Glimpse Into What’s Hopefully the Future of Healthcare

Microsoft Wants You to Vote Which Children’s Hospitals Will Be Denied the Ultimate Gameroom

New Bleach Paint Could Actually Make Hospitals Sterile

New da Vinci Robot Displays Your Internal Organs in 3D HD!

Vioguard Germ-Fighting Keyboard Retracts For a UV Light Bath

Stitching Wounds Using Lasers

Waterbirth Vessel Concept Recreates the ‘Tide at Omaha Beach’ in Your Hot Tub

Intel Health Guide Lets Doctors Check Up On You Electronically

Canadian Cops Tase Knife-Wielding 82-Year-Old Patient in his Hospital Bed

Air Disinfection Unit to Make Hospitals Cleaner, Safer

Hospital Food Ordering Goes Wireless

Voicecom Hospital Badges

Digital Medical Records on the Go

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