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Medical carts are an important tool in today’s healthcare. They make access to important drugs and vital equipment within easy reach of hospital staff. We go into detail about them today, from what they do, the different kinds, and how they’re essential in the care of patients. What Are Medical Carts? Medical carts are, simply, mobile storage units. They play a vital ro...

Dentists are always on the lookout to maximize their patient’s care, comfort, and treatment. They look for ways to improve his or her diagnosis to less time spent in the dental chair. Technology is increasingly looking to be the solution. Six of these “digital dentistry technologies” are covered today along with the future of the field. What is Digital Dentistry? D...

Ready to go to the local mall for your physical? Or see your pharmacist about your watch app’s alerts about your cholesterol level? These are a couple of potential scenarios greeting the healthcare industry this year. Learn about them and more, as well as the possible solutions to these challenges. Healthcare to Offer More Individual Patient Care “Patients are all al...

Information overload affects every business sector out there. Take a look at the life science industry, for example. Businesses in biotechnology have to figure out the impact of genetically modified organisms (GMO) on an ecosystem to the effectiveness of oil-eating microbes on an oil spill. Medical device manufacturers weigh the risks of their devices on patients, while ...

Why was database titan Oracle interested in EMR giant Cerner? The question was on every financial analyst’s mind last year. Interest for answers intensified when Oracle paid $28.3 billion for Cerner shortly afterwards. This time, analysts may finally have an answer. Slowing the Burnout Voice recognition software was mentioned multiple times in Oracle’s press release. He...

What, exactly, is RAS? Are they robotic surgeons with tentacles for arms that shapeshift into lethal-looking scalpels and needles? Or microbe-sized robots that infect human cells to transform them per programming from a secret government institution? The reality is much less fantastical than the descriptions above. Here are five misconceptions about surgical robots and...

Radiation exposure is an everyday fact of life in hospitals. At the same time, it puts staff and patients at risk of real health problems down the road. Hospitals, to combat this, need to limit radiation exposure for patients and staff. This can be done by bolstering PPE usage, improving education, and embracing new technology. In this guide, hospital staff will learn:...

Asthma, arthritis, diabetes, and other chronic diseases such as heart disease affect about half of all adults in the US. Worldwise, chronic diseases account for more than 90 percent of the morbidity and mortality rates among First-World nations. And it gets worse. Did you know: Chronic diseases, per the CDC, are a leading cause of death and disability in the US. The ...

Additive manufacturing, more popularly known as 3D printing, has advanced enough to create toys, figurines, and parts for more complex machines. The technology has been hailed as the next revolution in the healthcare industry. Why, then, hasn't it become widespread in clinics and hospitals like medical computers? Here are three challenges facing the widespread adoption o...

Pharmaceutical companies are always on the lookout for ways to speed up the drug development and approval processes and reduce expenses. R&D for each new drug can cost each from nearly $1 billion dollars to over $2 billion. That’s not including the clinical trials mandated by the FDA. Those can cost between $7 million to $19 million in phase 2, and jump over an eye-water...

Clinicians are burning out. In a recent survey by the AMA, 54 percent of urologists felt burned out. They were followed by specialists in: neurology (50 percent) nephrology (49 percent) Endocrinology (46 percent) family medicine (46 percent) radiology (46 percent) The COVID-19 pandemic worsened things, leaving healthcare groups and hospitals short-staffed to deal wi...

Medical workers are highly-skilled, educated professionals. The hospital of the future is the one that respects and preserves their precious time. To create the hospital of the future, modern medical organizations need to invest in the software and solutions of the future. Medical transcription is one such tool. It has already started moving away from manual transcripti...

Roughly 90 percent of the world’s food, fuel, raw material, and manufactured goods are transported by sea. That means anything impacting the maritime industry can quickly ripple throughout the global economy. The COVID-19 pandemic, and the following lockdowns to contain it, did just that. Ports and their life-saving medical clinics and hospitals were forced to turn away...

Clinicians, nurses, specialists, and other healthcare staff deal with medical issues daily. It’s important for them to know exactly what tools are available, capabilities, and any limitations. So it’s easy for them to become confused when medical equipment companies start throwing out words like “medical grade PCs,” “hospital grade computers,” and “healthcare grade machi...

Healthcare is always looking for ways to increase productivity. Take the process of record-keeping through medical transcription. It went through huge changes thanks to the personal computer, the Internet, speech recognition software, and EMR. A Brief History of Medical Transcription Medical transcription is simply the process of turning doctors’ notes into a formal ...

What is Remote patient monitoring? Remote patient monitoring, or RPM, is quite simple: the tracking and monitoring of a patient’s vitals remotely through various devices. Healthcare providers can keep an eye out on their patients’ health outside of clinical settings like hospitals. Bluetooth-enabled glucometers, blood pressure cuffs, and weight scales are examples of th...

Women these days are looking to assume greater control of their healthcare wants and needs. Reasons include: Women’s healthcare expenses, in a fact sheet published by the Labor Department, were found to be 80 percent higher for women between the ages of 19 – 44 than men of similar age. Reproductive services were considered one of the main reasons for the difference. ...

Medical groups and hospitals in the past used paper files and records to store data: patients’ medical records, providers’ contact info, the number of medical tablets on order for the surgical department, etc,. Unfortunately, these could be easily misplaced, destroyed, or stolen. The arrival of computers changed this filing system. The information was moved to in-house ...

Right to Repair (RtR, R2R) is a movement by consumers and repair shops to have Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEM) make available normally proprietary information of their products, as well as provide any necessary tools and spare parts. This can range from password access to a smartphone’s firmware to the use of diagnostic computers. Product owners can make their rep...

Want to see if time-travel is real? Simply walk into any doctor’s office or a hospital and ask to use their fax machine. The fax machine was invented in the early 1960s with its heyday being the late 1980s. Today, nearly 90 percent of healthcare organizations use fax machines with an estimated 75 percent for communications purposes alone. There are four reasons why it'...

Point of Care (POC) is the treatment of a patient at a location like their residence. Treating them there is called “hospital at home” or HaH. We’ll be covering its advantages over in-hospital care as well as how it’s done step-by-step. Bringing the Hospital Home HaH is defined by John Hopkins Medicine as a program that delivers hospital-level care to a patient at a PO...

In 1895, physicist Wilhelm Röntgen passed his hand in front of a cathode ray tube and saw the bones beneath the flesh. More than a century later, digital technology allows doctors to capture diagnostic images at a level of clarity that Röntgen could only dream of. Unfortunately, a digital image is only as clear as the monitor it’s displayed on. Outdated and subpar disp...

As much as digital technology has radically altered the field of medicine, the profession is still primarily analog. What does this mean? While medical computers and medical tablets can help practitioners pull up medical records with a few taps of the finger, they can’t tell you if the dark spot on a mammogram is something to worry about. Fortunately, recent advancemen...

No longer would healthcare professionals need to sift through endless filing cabinets hoping to piece together an accurate medical history of their patients. A clinic in Australia, at the click of a button, would be able to send patient information to a hospital in New York. Paper medical records would be a thing of the past thanks to medical computers. Fast forward to ...

Children are not adults. That seems to be an obvious statement. They’re physically and mentally different from grown-ups, and are treated as such. Medically, there’s an entire specialty devoted to them (pediatrics, whose patients range from newborn to 18 years old). One would assume, then, advances in healthcare technology would keep such differences in mind. Unfortunate...

In March of 2020, 1.5 million+ hospice residents in the US found themselves cut off from loved ones as the country fought to contain the COVID-19 virus. Since then, technologies such as telemedicine, predictive analytics, and virtual reality (VR) have advanced so today’s residents won’t lose such precious connections again. Telemedicine Links Hospice Residents, Patients...

Medical grade tablets are at the center of several unique patient engagement systems that have been developed in the past few years. Below are only a few of the more effective and exciting applications that have been observed. Patient-Controlled Robots In one of the more exciting applications of patient engagement technology, AdventHealth has leveraged healthcare tabl...

As vaccine efforts have ramped up across the globe, the world waits with bated breath for the return more normal times. At the same time, cybercriminals smell blood in the water. For them, the vaccine rollout is an exciting opportunity to attack the entire vaccine supply chain, from vulnerable electronic health records to vaccine cold storage facilities. Never before has...

Workforce burnout is a huge problem in the healthcare industry. According to a 2019 physician burnout survey, 54% of physicians who report burnout closely attribute it to either excessive reporting or issues with EHR software logins, both things that are closely tied to the hardware used to help physicians perform their jobs. As such, taking a look at the medical compute...

With the increase in telehealth services during the pandemic, the topic of reimbursements has become even more complicated. We still aren’t sure which telehealth services will remain after we exit this emergency stage. Thus, there’s confusion over how to handle telehealth reimbursements, both now and in the future. Fortunately, there are ways to plan to deal with the not...

Each year, 7-9,000 people die due to prescription errors. That’s on top of the hundreds of thousands of patients who experience adverse reactions to improperly prescribed medicines. The cost of caring for patients who experience poor reactions to improperly prescribed meds exceeds $40 billion a year. This leads to patient dissatisfaction, readmissions, and wasted resourc...

The healthcare tech trends that have arrived as a result of COVID-19 have undoubtedly helped enhance patient care in the face of massive upheaval in the healthcare industry. But how have these current health technology trends affected the care providers who use them? It’s no secret that burnout in nurses and physicians is at an all-time high. And, while modern healthca...

Bloodwork and labs are a staple of healthcare’s diagnostic toolbox. Unfortunately, the process can be prone to human error. A study published in 2014 estimated that at least 12 million diagnostic errors occur in the average year. Fortunately, Medical grade computers can be employed to eliminate many sources of lab errors. Barcode Scanning Eliminates Incorrect Test Order...

According to a Forescout study of IoT and medical device security, some of the most popular IoT medical devices are infusion pumps, patient tracking tools, and imaging systems. Cose to 70% of devices being run at the facilities they surveyed were running on legacy windows software that had support cutoff by Microsoft in January of 2020. Of course, improving your facil...

While the emergency protocols demanded by social distancing measures will disappear, many of the technical innovations fostered by the pandemic will remain. Telehealth and mobile healthcare facilitated by Medical Tablets and the Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) will be an integral part of specialty healthcare post-pandemic. Telehealth Brings the Experts to You Before ...

Healthcare doesn’t end when you leave the hospital. In response to this, healthcare AI is being deployed in conjunction with medical grade computers to ensure that post-hospital care is just as effective as care received within the facility. Below are only some of the most recently discovered use cases that delve deeper into answering how AI helps healthcare improve post...