Thursday, November 19, 2009
Safe Life A400: A New Look for an N95 Respirator
Safe Life Corporation (San Diego, CA) recently released a new respirator that looks and feels more like a traditional surgical face mask. We received a copy of the A400 respirator for review and spent about a half hour wearing it to see how it feels.
The new Safe Life A400 N95 Respirator can filter 95 percent of the airborne particles that can carry viruses, bacteria and other pathogens, while looking and feeling similar to a normal face mask. It's light, durable and easy to use. Safe Life made this respirator by infusing iodine into a polymer, making it safe for wearing while oxidizing microorganisms to death.
The disposable mask comes in two sizes (S/M and M/L) and is said to be cost effective, though there is no information about the price.
Doing activities around the house with the Safe Life N95 Respirator was fine, until 30 minutes after wearing the mask it became slightly uncomfortable as the neck straps are quite tight and pull the unit firmly onto the face. Another marginal issue was with the padded metal band that creates a seal around the nose area. It was a bit rough and could use softer support padding.
Other than the mask being slightly irritating, the Safe Life N95 Respirator does the job, and it's been certified by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) to be a true N95 class respirator.
Overall, we can say that Safe Life created an innovative product that does what the mask was supposed to do. It comes in a small package, it is relatively comfortable, and is a bit less conspicuous than traditional respirators.
Press release: Safe Life Introduces First Comfortable, Breathable N95 Respirator with Antimicrobial Protection ...
Product page: Safe Life N95 Respirators ...
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Monday, November 16, 2009
A New Form Factor for Personal Water Filtration
Korean designers Woo sik Kim and Duck soo Choi have a new idea for a 
water filtration system to be used by people living in remote environments. The "happy basin" is placed onto unclean water and, as it's pushed down, filters the water to create a contagion free source for drinking and washing up.
From the designers (forgive the broken English):
To help this serious problem, what we've done is breaking the stereotypical box of basin.Based on general belief, it's difficult to imagine that 'basin with holes' because it cannot store the clean water properly. Here is the Question, "What if there's no clean water for storage?"
This is the spot of innovation. We need the totally different type of product. [sic]
Link @ Yanko Design: happy basin...
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Thursday, November 12, 2009
Google Flu Shot Finder Goes Live
Google has released a new tool to help Americans find local pharmacies and clinics offering seasonal and H1N1 flu shots. So far the database is far from complete and Google hopes providers will share information about availability once they get word of the service.
From the Official Google Blog:
At the moment we have data for locations of flu vaccine directly from 20 states and counting. We are also continuing to add information from chain pharmacies and other providers in all 50 states; today, you'll find results from chains such as Walgreens, CVS and PDX participants, such as Kmart, Duane Reade, WinnDixie and Giant Eagle.
Link: Flu Shot Finder...
More from the Official Google Blog...
Flashback: Google Joins Nanny State to Monitor Flu?
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Monday, November 9, 2009
Ford's Inflatable Airbags to Bring Extra Safety Up Close
Ford is going ahead with seatbelt airbags in the next generation Ford Explorer. The system uses compressed gas which, for safety, inflates the seatbelt at a slower speed than traditional airbags using chemical explosives. Apparently, Lexus is planning to release a similar system in its higher end vehicles next year.
Press release: Ford Introduces Industry's First Inflatable Seat Belts to Enhance Rear Seat Safety ...
(hat tip: Engadget)
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Camera Phone Microscope Uses Holographic Processing to View Cells
Aydogan Ozcan, an assistant professor at University of California, Los Angeles, has developed an attachment for camera phones that turns these devices into microscopes useful for histological and microbiological analysis. Interestingly, the device uses no additional optics but relies on processing the interference patterns of light coming from the samples to recreate the image.
A snippet from the New York Times:
For this electronic system of magnification, inexpensive light-emitting diodes added to the basic cellphone shine their light on a sample slide placed over the phone’s camera chip. Some of the light waves hit the cells suspended in the sample, scattering off the cells and interfering with the other light waves.“When the waves interfere,” Dr. Brady said, “they create a pattern called a hologram.” The detector in the camera records that hologram or interference pattern as a series of pixels.
The holograms are rich in information, Dr. Ozcan said. “We can learn a lot in seconds,” he said. “We can process the information mathematically and reconstruct images like those you would see with a microscope.”
More from the New York Times...
(hat tip: Engadget)
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Friday, November 6, 2009
Delivery Method for Iomai's Transcutaneous Vaccine
We've previously covered Iomai Corp's (now part of Intercell) transcutaneous vaccination technology, with the idea being that if you're able to vaccinate patients through their skin, you can take advantage of the high density of Langerhans cells in the epidermis to activate an amplified immune response. Also, since transcutaneous vaccination does not involve systemic exposure, you're able to use more potent immune stimulants. These factors, in addition to it being needle-less, make transcutaneous vaccination an appealing option because you need less vaccine for an equal immune response. Additionally, having the vaccine in this dry, patch form also allows it to last much longer without refrigeration (possibly up to six months).
Application of the vaccine, however, first requires you to scrape off some of the keratinized epithelium to gain access to the Langerhans cells. This abrasion needs to be consistent, painless, and easy enough that it could be self-administered. At TEDMED, we've heard from IDEO's CEO Tim Brown, whose design firm was hired to develop the application technique for the transcutaneous vaccine patches. IDEO came up with a band aid looking device with a bulls eye and an attached tab. Pressing at the center and pulling the tab draws an abrasive strip across the skin, as well as leaves an ink mark to show where the vaccine patch should be placed. The application device and patch is also made using only standard processes and materials so they'd be easily manufactured in developing countries.
The administration device and patch are currently in phase two clinical trials for pandemic influenza.
Product page @ IDEO...
Flasback:Immunity That's More Than Skin Deep...
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Thursday, November 5, 2009
Quick and Easy Test for Pesticide Presence in Food and Drinks
Scientists from McMaster University in Canada have developed a dipstick that changes color when exposed to organophosphate pesticides. The test provides results in a matter of minutes, is reportedly inexpensive to produce, could be used for food testing, and perhaps might lead to a marketable product that one day could be found in food stores.
From the abstract in Analytical Chemistry:
A reagentless bioactive paper-based solid-phase biosensor was developed for detection of acetylcholinesterase (AChE) inhibitors, including organophosphate pesticides. The assay strip is composed of a paper support (1 x 10 cm), onto which AChE and a chromogenic substrate, indophenyl acetate (IPA), were entrapped using biocompatible sol-gel derived silica inks in two different zones (e.g., sensing and substrate zones). The assay protocol involves first introducing the sample to the sensing zone via lateral flow of a pesticide-containing solution. Following an incubation period, the opposite end of the paper support is placed into distilled deionized water (ddH2O) to allow lateral flow in the opposite direction to move paper-bound IPA to the sensing area to initiate enzyme catalyzed hydrolysis of the substrate, causing a yellow-to-blue color change. The modified sensor is able to detect pesticides without the use of any external reagents with excellent detection limits (bendiocarb ~ 1 nM; carbaryl ~ 10 nM; paraoxon ~ 1 nM; malathion ~ 10 nM) and rapid response times (5 min). The sensor strip showed negligible matrix effects in detection of pesticides in spiked milk and apple juice samples. Bioactive paper-based assays on pesticide residues collected from food samples showed good agreement with a conventional mass spectrometric assay method.
Abstract in Analytical Chemistry: Reagentless Bidirectional Lateral Flow Bioactive Paper Sensors for Detection of Pesticides in Beverage and Food Samples
Statement by the American Chemical Society: An inexpensive 'dipstick' test for pesticides in foods ...
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Friday, October 23, 2009
AED Location Database Points to Nearest Life Saving Device
Automatic external defibrillators (AED's) are becoming more common in public places like airports, theaters, and sports stadiums. To be effective, you must quickly find the nearest AED while in an unfamiliar environment, a task that's not immediately obvious when seconds count. Bertalan Meskó at ScienceRoll is reporting that Lucien Engelen, a technologist at the Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre in Holland, has a project to geolocate AEDs, and make the data available for mobile browsers. Additionally, you can use a location aware application like the Layar Reality Browser to pinpoint immediately where the AED is located in your vicinity.
Link: AED4EU...
Product page: Layar Reality Browser
(hat tip: ScienceRoll)
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Thursday, October 8, 2009
MedPageToday Unmasks the Surgical Mask
MedPageToday has published an interesting article that looks at the evidence of whether surgical masks, as well as tight seal respirators, such as N95, provide any protection to healthcare workers or patients. So what's the article's findings? The evidence that masks provide any meaningful respiratory shield is indeed quite slim, even for the operating room environment. Hence the conclusion:
"Masks and respirators should be considered the 'last line of defense' in a hierarchy of infection control measures."
Full story: Unmasking the Surgical Mask: Does It Really Work?...
Image credit Eneas @ Flickr...
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Wednesday, October 7, 2009
Microsoft Unveils H1N1 Swine Flu Response Center
Today Microsoft in partnership with Emory University unveiled the H1N1 Flu Response Center to help people experiencing symptoms of sickness to triage themselves, thereby keeping ERs unclogged for those who might really need clinical help. We participated today in a conference call with David Cerino, General Manager, Microsoft Health Solutions Group and Dr. Arthur Kellermann, Professor of Emergency Medicine and Associate Dean at Emory School of Medicine about this free public health service.
The simple website poses a series of questions based on three levels of assessment developed by Emory with guidance from CDC recommendations. Using basic English, that just about anyone can understand and what a primary care physician would be asking, a series of questions is presented. First, the system identifies whether you meet the CDC criteria of flu. And if so, it proceeds to look for symptoms of potentially severe illness, immediately suggesting you to see a doc. If the illness is not severe enough, the questions then try to identify associated risk factors of becoming sick with the flu, finally leading to a recommendation of whether to seek professional help. Currently operational for people 12 years of age and older, the system should be functional to include children in the next few days. Additionally, Microsoft promises to soon include services from TelaDoc, linking patients with real physicians for further assessment of their condition.
Link: Microsoft H1N1 Flu Response Center...
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Tuesday, September 1, 2009
"Outbreaks Near Me": Practical Epidemiology for The iPhone
For the last three years we've been covering HealthMap, an online tool that tracks the spread of infectious disease, as reported from a number of credible sources (see flashbacks below). Now researchers from Children's Hospital Boston in collaboration with the MIT Media Lab have combined the resources of HealthMap with the networking and geolocation abilities of the iPhone to create a portable application that can keep you aware of disease outbreaks around you. The app will even raise an alarm when it realizes you, for example, entered an area with a high rate of recent reports of H1N1.
The new application also features an option for users to submit an outbreak report. This will enable individuals in cities and countries around the world to interact with the HealthMap team and participate in the public health surveillance process. Users may take photos - of situations and scenarios of, and/or leading to, disease - with their iPhone and submit them to the HealthMap system for review and eventual posting as an alert on the worldwide map."This is grassroots, participatory epidemiology," says HealthMap co-founder Clark Freifeld, a PhD student at the MIT Media Lab and research software developer at CHIP. "In releasing this app we aim to empower citizens in the cause of public health, not only by providing ready access to real-time information, but also by encouraging them to contribute their own knowledge, expertise, and observations. In enabling participation in surveillance, we also expect to increase global coverage and identify outbreaks earlier."
Press release: New iPhone app "Outbreaks Near Me" locates H1N1 (swine flu), infectious diseases
Product page: Outbreaks Near Me
Flashbacks: Swine Flu As Spectator Sport; The Latest on HealthMap, an Online Disease-Mining System; BoingBoing Shamefully Ignores Valid Questions; More about User-Generated Content; HEALTHmap Global Disease Tracker
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Tuesday, August 4, 2009
Innovative New Sensor May Help Detect Freshness of Store Food
Consumers nowadays do not have any technology to accurately assess the freshness of fruits, vegetables, and meat in their local supermarkets. As such, we find ourselves squeezing melons, smelling peaches, and looking for the correct color on mangoes. Now German scientists are working on a device that can estimate food freshness using metal oxide sensors.
The system has been developed by researchers at the Fraunhofer Institutes for Molecular Biology and Applied Ecology IME in Schmallenberg and for Physical Measurement Techniques IPM in Freiburg. It checks gas emissions on-line – directly in the warehouse for instance. “We have brought together various technologies based on the use of metal oxide sensors, similar to those installed in cars, for example, to close ventilation vents when driving through a tunnel. Researchers at IPM have developed these sensors further. If a gas flows over the sensor, at temperatures of 300 to 400°C, it will burn at the point of contact. The subsequent exchange of electrons changes the electrical conductivity,” explains Dr. Mark Bücking, Head of Department at IME. “Before the gas reaches these sensors, it has to go through a separation column with polymers. Certain substances are already filtered out here.” A prototype of the analysis equipment already exists. Initial tests were promising – the system measures the volatile substances just as sensitively as conventional equipment used in food laboratories.
Press release: Ripe pineapple and delicious pork...
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Tuesday, July 21, 2009
Fraunhofer Researchers Propose New Air Raid Siren System
German researchers from the Fraunhofer Institute for Technological Trend Analysis INT believe that current methods of public announcement during emergencies are insufficient. Air raid sirens have been dismantled across much of the Western World. To bridge this apparent gap in making lots of noise in a disaster, the researchers suggest linking car horns to a public network that would activate them if something is terribly wrong. To us it seems like this is a recipe for further disaster as drivers in and around the honking cars can get startled and get into multitude of accidents. In addition, as any New Yorker knows, when many cars are going off, folks are just using their horns as a non-prescription stress reliever.
In recent years, different individual solutions for warning systems have been developed. Cell-broadcast systems can send mass SMS messages to mobile phones. Smoke detectors, radio-controlled clocks and weather stations equipped with radio receivers can also trigger alarm. Despite the high distribution rate of some of these devices, it cannot be ensured that a warning reaches the entire population. Only individual persons or households would be warned, and only if the devices are on standby 24/7/365. Today, fire brigades and disaster protection agencies would rather want the sirens back. However, the resulting costs would amount to several 100 million Euros for German federal and state governments, which share the responsibility for civil protection.In January, researchers of the INT applied for a patent of a technology which allows the horns of parked cars to be activated in case of disaster. The technology is based on the eCall emergency system, which new cars are going to be equipped with as from September 2010. The eCall system was developed at the initiative of the EU Commission to help reduce the number of road traffic fatalities. It consists of a GPS sensor and a mobile phone component, which is activated only in case of an accident (i.e. when the airbags are triggered) and which can transmit data (e.g. accident time, coordinates and driving direction of the vehicle) to an emergency call center.
The INT researchers found out that this infrastructure can also be used to warn the population. Once the cars are equipped with a radio receiver, their horns can be triggered in case of disaster. The receiver can be activated only by civil protection agencies. These might send e.g. the following signal to the vehicles: »To all vehicles that are equipped with the receiver and that are currently within the boundaries of the following GPS coordinates: If the engine is off, start sounding the horn!«
Dipl.-Ing. Guido Huppertz from the INT’s Technology Analyses and Forecasts (TAV) department has worked on the system and explains the advantages of honking cars: »All hitherto suggested solutions such as mobile phones or smoke detectors only inform the respective device user. The entire population can only be informed if 100% are equipped with these devices.«
Full story @ Fraunhofer: Car horns warn against natural disasters...
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Wednesday, June 24, 2009
TruTags Drug and Food Authentication System to Help Ensure You Get What You Pay For
Pharmaceutical counterfeiting has been growing into a serious problem over the years, and RFID (radio frequency identification) based techniques have been implemented into pill bottle caps to guarantee authenticity. The problem, of course, is that this approach doesn't identify the genuine nature of the pills themselves. Now Cellular Bioengineering, a company out of Honolulu, Hawaii, has developed a method to manufacture tiny silicon dioxide (SiO2) particles, called TruTags™, each of which can have a unique light signature when observed with a special device. Being cheaper to manufacture and safe for consumption, the company believes that TruTags may become regular practice to tag not only drugs, but also foods, and maybe even things like toothpaste and diaper creams.
From the product page:
TruTags™ are manufactured starting with high-purity silicon and completely oxidized by a high-temperature bake to form silica, also known as silicon dioxide (SiO2). Silica is generally regarded as safe (GRAS) by the FDA, and has been in wide use for many years in a range of food products and pharmaceuticals. For example, it is added in small amounts to aid with the thickening of coatings or the free-flow of powders and granulations.The TruTag™ difference is that a unique optical signature is manufactured into the tags without the use of additional additives or markers. This allows the tags to be added to coatings and applied to the exterior of edible goods, or added to ingredients such as powders and used as a forensic marker, to be read and verified as part of an investigation or inspection process by authorized security or quality assurance personnel.
Video of the TruTag particles swimming in water:
Info page: TruTags™...
Press release: BREAKTHROUGH TECHNOLOGY ENABLES EDIBLE TRUTAG™ TO PREVENT COUNTERFEIT MEDICINE
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Monday, June 22, 2009
New Emergency Preparedness Simulator Points Out Areas That Need Improvement
Preparing a regional public health system for emergency situations is difficult because one has to find vulnerable points without prior experience of similar situations. By creating a fairly realistic simulator, NYU researchers modeled New York City's public health response to a sarin gas attack and identified a few cracks in the system. The computer program, called Plan C, may serve as a tool for other cities to stress test their own hospital systems for various potential disasters.
The article, “A Novel Approach to Multihazard Modeling and Simulation,” is based on the authors’ test of the NYU computerized disaster simulation framework known as “Plan C” with a hypothetical malicious sarin release in several Manhattan locations. With the input of city demographic information, hospital resource and public transit data, the results showed that under certain circumstances, up to 22,000 individuals might become exposed, leading to 178 intensive care unit admissions.Plan C is an innovative tool for emergency managers, urban planners, and public health officials to prepare and evaluate optimal plans for response to an array of hypothetical urban catastrophic situations. It was developed as part of the Large Scale Emergency Readiness (LaSER) Project at NYU’s Center for Catastrophe Preparedness and Response (CCPR).
Plan C uses a powerful, large-scale computational, multi-agent based disaster simulation framework involving as many as thousands of variables or agents – from existing hospital beds and emergency department services to hospital surge capacity and behavioral and psychosocial characteristics to anticipate public response to an attack. It has been able to simulate the complex dynamics of emergency responses in such scenarios as a chemical release, food poisoning, and smallpox.
According to the article, implementing disaster plans within 30 minutes compared to two hours of an incident diminished mortality and waiting times and reduced the number of patients who were severely affected. GIS portability to other urban locations was demonstrated.
Abstract in Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness: A Novel Approach to Multihazard Modeling and Simulation
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Tuesday, May 19, 2009
"The Road to Hell Is Paved With Good Intentions"
Population monitoring has great potential benefits for disease tracking, especially during epidemics, and with a bit of technology it's possible to do this in a comprehensive manner. Welcome to preparations for a 1984 Japan, where a pilot program will track the movement of 2,000 volunteers via GPS and identify when any of them crossed paths with others that later became ill with a contagious disease. No doubt the medical benefit of such a system on a large scale can save lives by the thousand. But once completed, it's hard to ignore the possibilities of what the tracking system could otherwise be used for in the future.
From the Pink Tentacle:
The proposed system relies on mobile phone providers to constantly track the subjects’ geographical locations and keep chronological records of their movements in a database. When a person is labeled as “infected,” all the past location data in the database is analyzed to determine whether or not anyone came within close proximity to the infected individual.The system will know, for example, whether or not you once boarded the same train or sat in the same movie theater as the infected individual, and it will send you a text message containing the details of the close encounter. The text messages will also provide instructions on specific measures to take in response.
Read on at the Pink Tentacle...
Image: Edward Barnieh Photography
(hat tip: Bill @ Technovelgy)
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Thursday, April 30, 2009
Google Flu Trends, Mexico Edition
Google, in a speedy effort to point their query crystal ball toward swine flu, just launched Google Flu trends for Mexico. The site, just like Flu Trends for the US, looks at aggregate user search queries that might indicate a higher prevalence of flu in a region. Though they don’t publish the specific methods involved, if, say, millions of users in a region started searching for something like “achy muscles and fever” or “I think I’ve got the flu,” the software might notice the trend and note it on the website. Though it’s certainly not perfect, the primary benefit to this approach is that it has the potential to pick up on flu outbreaks a bit quicker than other epidemiological data because it’s real time and avoids the lag of a patient getting to a hospital, then the data getting to an agency like the CDC, etc. Google is calling the site “experimental” for now because they’ve not yet had the chance to validate their models against good clinical data, but decided that they wanted to get it launched as quickly as possible.
Let’s just hope that the swine flu is not transmissible to computers; even my ThinkPad was in a panic today.
From the Official Google Blog:
In response to recent inquiries from public health officials, we've been attempting to use Google search activity in Mexico to help track human swine flu levels. Experimental Flu Trends for Mexico is, as you might have guessed, very experimental. But the system has detected increases in flu-related searches in Mexico City (Distrito Federal) and a few other Mexican states in recent days, beginning early in the week of April 19-25.In the United States, we were able to validate our estimates using data from a surveillance system managed by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). We have not verified our data for Mexico in the same manner, but we've seen that Google users in Mexico (and around the world) also search for many flu-related topics when they have flu-like symptoms. Given the tremendous recent attention to swine flu, our model tries to filter out search queries that are more likely associated with topical searches rather than searches by those who may be experiencing symptoms.
While we would prefer to validate this data and improve its accuracy, we decided to release an early version today so that it might help public health officials and concerned individuals get an up-to-date picture of the ongoing swine flu outbreak. As with our existing Flu Trends system, estimates are provided across many of Mexico's states and updated every day. Our current estimates of flu activity in the U.S. are still generally low as would be expected given the relatively low confirmed swine flu case count. However, we'll be keeping an eye on the data to look for any spike in activity.
Google Blog: Experimental Flu Trends for Mexico
Flashback: Google Joins Nanny State to Monitor Flu?
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Monday, April 20, 2009
FDA Scrutinizing "New" Medical Devices
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that the Food and Drug Administration is requiring Johnson & Johnson, Medtronic, Inc., Royal Philips Electronics, and a various other medical device manufacturers to further explain and justify their products' safety and efficacy.
This is a part of the Safe Medicals Act of 1990, passed by Congress, that tightens control and testing of Class 3 devices. There is some concern that these new actions by the FDA will lead to further increases the cost of development of new medical equipment and lengthen the time to clinical use in patients.
While the bill was made into law in the 1990s, the FDA has had significant problems fully implementing all of the aspects of it, and this has allowed Class 3 devices to be put into use based on a previous statute. The FDA is reviewing all of these devices now, and calls on companies to test efficacy and safety under the "new" 1990 guidelines, or possibly seek reclassification of devices.
From the WSJ:
Mary Long, an agency spokeswoman, said it could take several years for the agency to finish the process. Manufacturers would be granted a grace period to submit enough evidence backing their devices under the more-rigorous standard. "It is a priority, but it will really depend on the kind and amount of information we get on each type," she said.
We support our patient safety above all else, but mention this FDA review because of the potential impact it may have to current and future medical device development.
WSJ : Medical Devices Face new Scrutiny from FDA
Library of Congress : Safe Medical Device Act of 1990 (H.R. 3095 and S. 3006)
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Wednesday, April 8, 2009
System Watches Live EMR Data for Signs of Epidemics
This week GE Healthcare, in partnership with Centers for Disease Control & Prevention and Johns Hopkins University, has unveiled a public disease tracking system that monitors symptoms entered into hospital EMR systems. By combining data from different regional medical facilities, the system should issue warnings when similar conditions are being reported at the same time. Although the current prototype works on GE's Healthcare's Centricity EMR system, the technology could be expandable to clinics using other EMR's.
More about the announcement from BusinessWeek...
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» Feral Children...No, Really! (June 5, 2007)
» CPR Teddy: Helpful or Creepy (June 4, 2007)
» Improved Radiation Detectors Developed by DoE (June 1, 2007)
» MedSignals Digital Pill Box (May 24, 2007)
» Personal Water Purifier: No Excuse for Drinking Dirty Water Now (May 21, 2007)
» You Know This One Came out of UCSF: Marijuana Vaporizing Device a Success (May 17, 2007)
» Treadmill-Desk Burns 100 Calories per Hour (May 16, 2007)
» Rotavirus Vaccine Goes Sublingual (May 15, 2007)
» Special Needs Population Planner Software (May 15, 2007)
» 3M™ Class 95 Particulate Respirators to Save the Nation (May 9, 2007)
» Squirrel, a Personal Air Pollution Monitor (May 7, 2007)
» Biosensor That Detects Thousands of Bioagents (May 1, 2007)
» Kids Fight Diabetes with Comic Book (May 1, 2007)
» News Flash: Medgadgets Sold on Infomercials Might be Scams (April 26, 2007)
» Pullit Condoms: The (2nd) Fastest Condom (April 26, 2007)
» Band of Life: USB Bracelet Carries Patients' Health Info (April 24, 2007)
» A New Frontier in Awkward: Do Your Own Pap-Smears (April 6, 2007)
» Risk of Nanomaterials Evaluated (March 27, 2007)
» Sulis Personal Water Purifier (March 22, 2007)
» Quartz Laser Photo-Acoustic Sensing of Chemical Weapons (March 20, 2007)
» Biosand Filter Reduces Diarrheal Diseases (March 20, 2007)
» Smoking 2.0: Smoke Free, Tar Free, Battery Powered = Healthy? (March 15, 2007)
» Copper Door Handles to Beat MRSA? (March 15, 2007)
» Asleep At the Wheel? (March 7, 2007)
» New UN Radiation Warning: Skull & Crossbones (February 21, 2007)
» Self-Charging Smoke Detector (January 25, 2007)
» Scientists Report Developing a Novel Water Filtration System (January 11, 2007)
» Toyota Develops Device to Detect Drunk Drivers (January 9, 2007)
» Ruminations on the Reprocessed Device Debate (December 21, 2006)
» Mosquitoes May Become Our Allies (December 21, 2006)
» Wi-Fi Debate Heats Up (December 14, 2006)
» Vagina's Molecular Armor (December 13, 2006)
» Microscopic Barcodes Identify Biological Weapons Quickly (December 1, 2006)
» Spray On Condom = Instant Lovin' (December 1, 2006)
» Mercedes Develops Anti-Microsleep System (November 29, 2006)
» Lasers Detect a Single Virus in 60 Seconds or Less (November 17, 2006)
» "A Survey of Current Practices in the Nanotechnology Workplace" (November 16, 2006)
» Paint-On Polymer Kills Influenza (November 15, 2006)
» A Concrete Step Toward Cleaner Air (November 14, 2006)
» Fizzy Drinks May Cause Pancreatic Cancer (November 13, 2006)
» Vaccination Prevents Lung Cancer (November 9, 2006)
» Using the Retina to Check for Malaria (November 7, 2006)
» Germophobia is Out of Control (November 6, 2006)
» Graphic Images on Cigarette Packages (November 2, 2006)
» Severe Micro-Cellulotamination (November 2, 2006)
» Obesity Epidemic Spurs Growth in Oversized Surgical Tools (November 2, 2006)
» Video Games to Help Spread HIV Education (November 1, 2006)
» STD Testing Online (October 27, 2006)
» General Flu Vaccines in the UK: Worth the Hassle? (October 27, 2006)
» HEALTHmap Global Disease Tracker (October 19, 2006)
» Counterfeit Glucose Test Strips Hit Market (October 16, 2006)
» Vocal Fire Alarm (October 9, 2006)
» Nanotechnology To Stop Weaponized Anthrax (October 5, 2006)
» Treatment to Offer "Instant Flu Protection" (October 4, 2006)
» Doctors Want "Recall" Dropped (October 2, 2006)
» Anthrax Spore Detector by Veritide (October 2, 2006)
» In the Works: Highly Sensitive E. coli Detector (September 26, 2006)
» Anti-smoking Message in a Cigarette (September 25, 2006)
» Shocking Into CPR (September 22, 2006)
» Anthrax Detector Hushed? (September 21, 2006)
» Biological Warning and Incident Characterization (BWIC) (September 18, 2006)
» Put Your Virus/Bacteria/Toxin Detecting Nanofiber Napkin Back in Your Lap! (September 15, 2006)
» Radilex™: Rx for Ionizing Radiation (August 31, 2006)
» Convalescent Plasma: Future H5N1 Treatment? (August 30, 2006)
» CDC: FluChip Performs Well (August 29, 2006)
» The TekSensor™ (August 28, 2006)
» OTC Sales as an Early Warning of Pandemic, Bioterrorism (August 25, 2006)
» The Ozone Forecaster (August 24, 2006)
» New Methods for Screening Nanoparticles; Prelim Results Obtained (August 22, 2006)
» Monoclonal Antibody Anthrax Detector (August 21, 2006)
» The Rapidly Deployable Chemical Detection System (August 17, 2006)
» Urgent Health Notice: Don't Put it in Your Mouth (August 16, 2006)
» Clinics Employ Secret Shoppers (August 15, 2006)
» FDA Nanotechnology Task Force (August 15, 2006)
» The Saga of the Finger Saving SawStop (August 15, 2006)
» Fire Tubes (August 9, 2006)
» Bacterial Nanoprocessing of Uranium (August 8, 2006)
» Inhaled Nanoparticles Take a Direct Route to Brain (August 7, 2006)
» BioBlower (August 3, 2006)
» MAKE: Super Cheap Water-Purifcation Straw (August 3, 2006)
» SenTAG Swim Alerts (June 22, 2006)
» The SmartSense System: Instantaneous Detection of Avian Flu (June 13, 2006)
» The Effort to Decriminalize Hypodermic Needle Sales in Massachusetts (June 9, 2006)
» Nuclear / Biological / Chemical Protection for Kids! (June 5, 2006)
» Siemens: Now and Forever (May 30, 2006)
» Cell Phone Usage Predicts Teen Depression? (May 25, 2006)
» Anti-Diarrheal Rice Makers Flushed Out of California, Straining to Take Root in North Carolina (May 22, 2006)
» Giant Medgadget: Mercedes Bus-Based Ambulance (May 18, 2006)
» Virginia Tech Applies Antimicrobial System to Athletics Facility (May 17, 2006)
» Air Putrifiers (May 10, 2006)
» New York's Diabetics Face Higher (Government) Pressure (April 19, 2006)
» Possible H5N1 Epidemic Modeled on Supercomputer (April 5, 2006)
» Saying Goodbye to the Guinea Worm (March 27, 2006)
» Better Living Through Bacon (March 27, 2006)
» Air Showers for Allergies (March 16, 2006)
» Full Force of Multimedia to Combat Meth Epidemic (February 27, 2006)
» Making Work More Work (February 24, 2006)
» Monitoring Grey Goo: From Nano to Human Scale (February 22, 2006)
» College: No More Reckless Experimentation (February 22, 2006)
» Reversible Microlenses for Fast Chemical Detection (February 16, 2006)
» New York City Offers Protection (February 16, 2006)
» Bottoms Up, Down Under (February 8, 2006)
» New Testing Method to Assess Health Risks of Grey Goo (February 6, 2006)
» Paranoia Runs Deep (February 1, 2006)
» A New Method to Detect Clusters of MRSA (January 27, 2006)
» FDA Panel Votes to Approve OTC Anti-Obesity Drug (January 24, 2006)
» Laughter Can Cure (January 19, 2006)
» Cracking Down on Employees Who Smoke (December 21, 2005)
» Gather 'Round the Fireplace and Share Medical History (December 21, 2005)
» The Mighty Mouse (December 16, 2005)
» Keep Fat In Mind (November 30, 2005)
» Government Pushes for Keychain Medical Records (November 21, 2005)
» Dogs Are Truly Man's Best Friend (November 16, 2005)
» FDA Audited in Rejection of "Morning After Pill" for OTC use (November 15, 2005)
» Breathe Easy: The US Government Has a Flu Website (November 8, 2005)
» Handheld HIV Test (November 7, 2005)
» Tobacco Tracking in Japan (November 2, 2005)
» Giant Microbes: Infectious Fun (November 2, 2005)
» Motorola Antibacterial Phone (November 2, 2005)
» NIAID Awards $47 Million in New Effort to Develop Medical Countermeasures Against Radiological and Nuclear Threats (October 13, 2005)
» Cell Phones vs. Brain Tissue: Nothing Stressful (October 12, 2005)
» Betting on the Flu (October 11, 2005)
» Genetically Manipulated Mosquito Species To Fight Malaria (October 11, 2005)
» MyPyramid for Kids (September 30, 2005)
» Infrared Detection of Meat Contamination (September 29, 2005)
» Cold War Provides Helpful New Forensic Tool (September 16, 2005)
» Sensicore 's WaterPoint for Rapid Purity Testing (September 1, 2005)
» Detecting Anthrax Proteins at Ultralow Concentrations (August 31, 2005)
» Computer Model Could Help Prevent Avian Flu Pandemic (August 4, 2005)
» Traffic Congestion, Lung Congestion (July 27, 2005)
» Using Wikipedia Entry for Pandemic Preparedness (June 15, 2005)
» Glucon: Blood Sugar Magic (June 2, 2005)
» LifeStraw™ (May 23, 2005)
» BROOM: A Contamination Area Management System (April 26, 2005)
» Inspector Raman™ (April 22, 2005)
» Portable High-Resolution NMR Sensor Demonstrated at Berkeley (April 13, 2005)
» Hospital Computer Keyboards: a Role in Nosocomial Transmission? (April 12, 2005)
» Wireless Information System for Emergency Responders (WISER) for PDA's (March 21, 2005)
» Nebraska Medical Center Unveils Biocontainment Unit (March 10, 2005)
» Insects, viruses could hold key for better human teamwork in disasters (March 2, 2005)
» A new epidemiologic method described (February 23, 2005)
» BioVeris M1M Analyzer (February 11, 2005)
» Electronic system for prescriptions sought (February 9, 2005)
» The electronic-submissions gateway to FDA (February 8, 2005)
» Anthrax 'Smoke Detector' (January 10, 2005)
» Vioxx Aftershocks (December 24, 2004)
