Robot Healthcare

Without this additional benefit, the healthcare system wouldn't accept it. Crowdsourcing diagnostics is a tool which can be used by doctors in an online or face-to-face practice. Using computer software, doctors enter the symptoms and test results of a patient, ... In the UK, kidney operations have been performed by a robot remotely operated by a surgeon thousands of miles away. In Italy, a robot performed a heart surgery controlled remotely by a surgeon in Boston. ...

The Company's technology platforms such as the I-block surgical robot, Nano-station Computerized Surgical navigation system, and Nano-block manual surgical instruments for computer assisted surgery address key issues associated with ...

Take the area of prostate cancer surgery, where robots reportedly now assist in the majority of the 85000 procedures each year in U.S. The robot surgeries typically take longer and cost more than conventional ones, yet no hard data show ...

The top two staffing agencies in the industry continue to see their revenue decline. Yesterday, Cross Country Healthcare Inc. reported a fourth-quarter revenue decline of 39.7% to $124.1 million from fourth quarter 2008 revenue of ...

Right now, the ACLJ is inviting all concerned citizens to sign a petition to stop the reconciliation tactic and start over on Health Care. If you are so inclined, you can sign it here. Pass it on as well. That is all. ...

I just saw today that Opus #6 at MAinfo has done a fine job rounding up the Senators and Congress-critters into one list. A *ahem* SociaList, if you will, of their positions on reconciling the Health Care Reform bill. ...

Health Robotics is the undisputed global leading supplier of life-critical intra-venous medication robots, providing healthcare facilities in 5 continents with robotics technology and software automation solutions. ...

Symbio Solutions, a leading provider of healthcare Vendor Management Services was acquired by Broadlane this week. There were several bidders during the process but Broadlane was the highest bidder. Symbio filed for Chapter 11 ...

GeckoSystems to Discuss How Their Mobile Robot Solutions Lower Healthcare Costs at Conference CONYERS, GA--(Marketwire - 02/23/10) - GeckoSystems Intl. Corp.

Ed Bennett has updated his hospital social media data on his blog Found in Cache. This time he has dug a bit deeper into the data and produced some interesting findings. He also very kindly provides access to the raw data of US hospital ...

It's the private insurance companies that have failed to deliver a viable model or useful service when it comes to healthcare. How people can continue to support this broken system when they would have no tolerance for a similar level ...

Yesterday, Concerro, Inc., announced their acquisition of RES-Q Healthcare Systems. Concerro, formerly BidShift, has come along way since their inception in 1999. Offering more now than just shift bidding technology, ...

... such as ShiftWise Healthcare Vendor Management, the current economic state of the healthcare staffing industry, the social media application foursquare, Social Media Marketing (SMM) and staffing agencies and my blog Staffing Robot. ...

Seems the rage these days is aggregating content and data from social networking sites. As the web becomes more segmented through various platforms from search to social media, having a single source to search, deliver and index data is ...

My favorite social media site is Twitter. Although there are several tools for interacting in different ways with Twitter the best tool out there by far is Tweetdeck. I've mentioned this app several times in previous posts, ...

One thing we've learned is that healthcare was not completely recession-proof over the last year and a half as we've seen a number of large-scale layoffs across the board," says David Cherner, managing partner of Health Workforce ...

AMN, the largest healthcare staffing company in the nation launched a major rebranding campaign yesterday. According to AMN the effort was put forth to more accurately reflect their interconnected service offerings. ...

Late last year I blogged about the struggle of several healthcare VMS companies in the industry. Symbio Solutions was no exception. As they began having trouble paying their staffing agencies, organizations such as the National ...

So in this definition the Roomba is not really a social robot. When functioning properly, you shouldn't have to interact with it very much at all. Ideally it's mostly functioning when you are away. This move into healthcare robotics now ...

The use of assistive robots in health care settings is seen as one of the most important applications of robotics (Nejat, G., et.al. 2009) with numerous possibilities to explore. Currently, robots are primarily being used in health care ...