Siemens Healthcare presents “Healthcare Lighting”, a concept for lighting design in medical facilities, aimed at creating a friendly and colourful environment instead of the common bland hospital atmosphere.
Medical device users across the world will now have access to over 1,300 medical device standards and related information in a new database compiled by American National Standards Institute.
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In order to further promote the exchange of clinical expertise beyond imaging solutions, GE Healthcare is delivering global solutions enabled by ehealth technology partner ICW headquartered in Walldorf, Germany.
A new imaging management solution that integrates different types of medical data is being developed to treat rare genetic skeletal diseases.
IBM scientists have created a one-step point-of-care-diagnostic test, based on an innovative silicon chip, that requires less sample volume, is significantly faster, portable, easy-to-use, and can test for many diseases, including cardiovascular disease.
Narayana Nethralaya Postgraduate Institute of Ophthalmology, Bangalore which has been involved in pediatric community eye outreach programs for over 25 years has helped evolve a unique tele-medicine software which allows screening of rural and semi-urban infants for a potentially blinding condition called Retinopathy of Prematurity along with other common conditions including ocular cancers.
Intel has launched a handheld mobile reader that allows people with learning disabilities and those with poor vision to photograph text and have it read aloud to them digitally.
Philips Respironics recently organised a conference called
In order to expedite the construction of eight new All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS)-like institutes in the country, Union health minister Sri Ghulam Nabi Azad announced incentives of up to Rs 10 crore for early completion of these projects.
US researchers have developed a new kidney replacement device specifically designed for children in need of dialysis due to disease or congenital defects.
Members approved the Board appointments during a business meeting at DMAA’s 11th annual meeting, The Forum 09.
