Earthquake Crisis Accelerates Healthcare Reform in Christchurch, New Zealand
In these austere times, when the NHS is charged with delivering efficiency challenges of £120 billion, the adoption of an integrated, IT-driven healthcare system is seen as an important move, enabling the introduction of new services, saving time (and money) and providing more efficient operations and better informed decision making.
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AATM Pioneers Mobile ECG Telemonitoring in Armenia
Among AATM's plans for strategic development of Healthcare ICT in Armenia special place is devoted to remote patients' monitoring and mobile (wireless) eHealth technologies. Importance of home telehealth lies in better management of chronic conditions and maintenance of health status in target groups of patients.
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An Internet for Robots
Researchers of five European universities have developed a cloud-computing platform for robots. The platform allows robots connected to the Internet to directly access the powerful computational, storage, and communications infrastructure of modern data centers - the giant server farms behind the likes of Google, Facebook, and Amazon - for robotics tasks and robot learning.
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Human Brain Treats Prosthetic Devices as Part of the Body
The human brain can learn to treat relevant prosthetics as a substitute for a non-working body part, according to research published in the open access journal PLOS ONE by Mariella Pazzaglia and colleagues from Sapienza University and IRCCS Fondazione Santa Lucia of Rome in Italy, supported by the International Foundation for Research in Paraplegie.
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Molecular Coordination in Evolution: A Review in 'Nature Reviews Genetics'
Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO) researchers Alfonso Valencia, Director of the Structural Biology and Biocomputing Programme and David de Juan, jointly with Florencio Pazos, from the Spanish National Centre for Biotechnology (CNB-CSIC), publish a review on the latest computational methods that, based on evolutionary principles, are revolutionising the field of analysis and prediction of protein structure, function and protein-protein interactions, as well as the short- and long-term expectations for the field.
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CVD Data to be Standardized Across Europe
Budgets are becoming tighter and health systems are under pressure to address the increasing burden of chronic diseases. Tackling chronic diseases requires up to date information on disease prevalence and risk factors but Europe currently lacks data on cardiovascular disease (CVD) that is standardized and can be compared.
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Research Partnership to Reveal What Doctors Worldwide Say on Social Media About Cardiovascular Disease & Treatments
Doctors 2.0 TM & You and Creation Healthcare have announced a research partnership that will reveal for the first time how healthcare professionals (HCPs) discuss cardiovascular disease and treatments using public social media channels. The research is being conducted using Creation Pinpoint, the world's first social media monitoring tool dedicated to studying public conversations among HCPs, and will be presented at Doctors 2.0 & You in Paris, June 6 - 7, 2013.
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