biomedical technology

The support services for biomedical technology address a variety of technical and administrative issues, concerning the safe and efficient operation of medical equipment over the period of its intended use and the training of hospital ..

Advancement in imaging and biomedical technology has improved the use of catheter-based transarterial embolization (occlusive therapy) of cerebral arteriovenous malformations (AVMs)...

..The place of novel and controversial biomedical technology is commonly left to an ad hoc and complex process whereby social acceptability eventually becomes the ..

..Therefore, the main objective of this manuscript is to report on a research project where we took advantage of those available technological advancements to develop prediction models for breast cancer survivability...

..The objective of this report is to present guidance on methodologies for those undertaking such analyses or for those reviewing the results of such analyses...

..We conclude that pollution ideas and partitioning processes are useful in understanding regulatory ordering and innovation in the emerging technological zone of human tissue engineering...

..The purpose of this study is to evaluate the role of the wide divergence of interests of the various stakeholders in contributing to the increasing cost of care...

..While these technologies can help people adapt to their rapidly changing lifestyles, their use raises important ethical issues...

..This requires the Horizon Scanning Systems (HSSs) to devise efficient procedures for identification of new health technologies. The role of the Internet for this purpose has as yet not been documented...

..The greatest challenges for telemedicine in the twenty-first century are financing, safety standards, security, and infrastructure...

..These include providers' ceding control of clinical information to patients, universal public availability of provider performance comparisons, and moving health policy from a no-man's land between government and market control...

..All of these factors combined make diabetes an opportune disease state for a case study of the implementation of health information technology (HIT) in managed care...

..In effect, medication therapy management (MTM) programs are using HIT to identify an at-risk population and reach that population in the most appropriate measure...

..That is, there is no technological imperative, but technology promotes a moral imperative; in particular, it promotes a moral imperative to proper assessment...

..1 Some of the challenges associated with current chronic care management approaches can be addressed through the use of health information technology (IT) and health information exchange...

..We hope that this special issue will provide a basis for initial understanding of these issues and stimulate further involvement by the bioengineering community at large, for the improvement of healthcare across all of society...

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..Health informaticians need to be active in stimulating consideration of all these issues, as part of both social and professional responsibility...

..An aging population will impact upon traditional healthcare delivery methods...

..The situation is not so clear when radically new technologies are introduced into clinical practice. This article discusses some of the issues that are involved and proposes some new solutions...

..Rather, it is the author's intent to present several visions of the future of medical computing and outline the issues, which must be overcome to achieve the vision...

..Savvy develops of and investors in new medical technology will anticipate these changes and take them into account in their planning...

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..The possible applications are manifold, ranging from alarm systems to intelligent guidance systems, passenger recognition in car seats, air conditioning control in interior lining and smart wallpaper with software-defined light switches...

..We will discuss ongoing research in the areas of sensors, sensor interfacing, interconnection and packaging, hardware platforms, infrastructure and power delivery for ambient systems with applications in the p-health domain...

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..Improvements in health care depend not only on producing better technologies, but also on using technology better...

..One hospital studied the life cycle of emerging cardiovascular technologies so it could form better investment and strategy decisions...

..quot;In the end, a symbiotic culture composed of human and digital individuals may be a more effective steward of the earth's resources than humans would be by themselves." Donald D. Chamberlin, author and ACM Fellow...

..This chapter examines the demand for evaluating health information technologies and suggests several strategies for conducting rigorous and relevant evaluation research...

..The federal government touts healthcare technology as a means of improving patient care...

..Ignore them at your own risk...

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..Implications for research, policy and market innovation are discussed...

..The approach is also relevant to the other dimensions of academic health care institution activities, notably the conduct of research and the processes of education and learning...

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..This essay considers ways in which the health care of tomorrow will be affected by the intermingling of factors such as demography, epidemiology, economics, technology, globalization, and individual health behavior...

..In addition, this system has wireless communication system, using Bluetooth, and acquired data transfer to the outside of the house via the Internet...

..A prototype has been built into a box with a dimension of 2 x 2.5 x 4 cm3. The device includes the sensors, microprocessor, circuits, battery, and a wireless transceiver for communicating data with a data terminal...

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..The developed device can transmit a message on the patient's emergency to the remote server through the cellular phone network, and is expected to play crucial roles in the health management of chronic-aged patients in their daily life...

..Then the puzzle of the different components in healthcare linked by IT will be complete, and the care process could be continuously optimized in an efficient way...

..In addition to increased research on the efficacy of treatment, there is an even greater need for increased research on delivery and use of technology...

..New capabilities hold the power to transform health care, making it truly patient centered as the Institute of Medicine (IOM) has urged...

..But the goal is magnificent: personal health planning, early diagnosis, the right drug for the right patient, and predictable side effects...

..This paper lists the unsolved problems (by analogy to mathematical unsolved problems list) and explains why errorless healthcare with bionic hugs and no need for quality control is possible...

..Nanomedicine is a blockbuster, with huge implications for health care (not to mention human life). Have you noticed how far we've come?..

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..Regions experiencing the largest spending gains were not those realizing the greatest improvements in survival. Factors yielding the greatest benefits to health were not the factors that drove up costs, and vice versa...

..The nature of the problem and consideration of various factors in the introduction, implementation, and evaluation of new technologies will be considered...

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..This paper will discuss these issues, along with the production, in 2005, of the Specific National Ethical Guidelines for Biomedical Research...

..The purpose of this study was to compare how trabecular bone architecture, bone cell activity, and strength are altered by two different bone anabolic agents, bFGF and hPTH(1-34), in an osteopenic rat model...

..This bond is necessary to the improvement of medicine in the future because, currently, the enormous biomedical technology so far has contributed little to the traditionally human fields of psychosomatic and functional ..

..Canadian Muslims come from varied backgrounds and have varying degrees of religious observance. Physicians need to recognize this diversity and avoid a stereotypical approach to Muslim patients...

..In the West, the debate over the use of biomedical technology continues, with various rabbinic rulings permitting the use of assisted reproductive technologies by Jews ..

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..This article presents a new set of population and life expectancy forecasts for the United States, focusing on transitions that will take place by midcentury...

..dableducational.org. The PA.NET International Quality Certification Protocol represents the first attempt to provide health care personnel and consumers with an independent and objective assessment of BPMs based on their quality...

Electronic fetal monitoring (EFM) is one example of a biomedical technology that rapidly diffused from an experimental innovation into a standard medical practice...

..Interventions to address this behavior need to consider the physical issues of condom use along with the complex array of social, structural, psychological, and interpersonal issues...

..This paper estimates an economic model for the potential cost impact of microbiological screening of toddlers for caries risk compared to the traditional method of managing pediatric caries...

Quantum dots (QDs) nanoprobes are emerging as alternatives to small-molecule fluorescent probes in biomedical technology. This paper reports an efficient and rapid method of producing highly dispersed and stable CdSe-core QDs with a ..

..To describe the health beliefs and practice in a rural Iraqi community...

..similarities suggest four conclusions: Public interest in euthanasia 1) is not linked with advances in biomedical technology; 2) it flourishes in times of economic recession, in which individualism and social Darwinism are invoked ..

..Such technology should foster the development of miniature oxygenators and similar biomedical devices requiring both a microscale reaction volume and physiological blood flow...

Bioconjugated nanomaterials offer endless opportunities to advance both nanobiotechnology and biomedical technology. In this regard, semiconductor nanoparticles, also called quantum dots, are of particular interest for multimodal, ..

In modern biomedical technology, development of high performance sensing methods for dopamine (DA) is a critical issue because of its vital role in human metabolism...

..It plays a central role in the recent technological advances in biomedical technology, especially in the areas of disease diagnosis, drug design and drug delivery...

..being provided by a development project of Ministry of Education "Inter-university co-operation in biomedical technology and engineering using top technologies" in total amount of almost 5 mil CZK, whereas over 2 mil CZK ..

..33% of the national health budget for that same year. We strongly believe that preventing SCD is not only financially feasible but very beneficial from the societal perspective...

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..They are highly interactive and involve use of 3D molecular visualization software that can be computationally taxing...

..It also reiterates the claims made by other writers that social and political philosophy need to have a transparent and considered role in debates about resources...

..This article was written to help stimulate deeper exploration and insights into academic theory and clinical practice in order to help shape and create a better vision of aging in place...

..As advances in biomedical technology allow research breakthroughs to continue at a steady pace, more and more is being discovered about the ..

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..We present a brief history of medical ethics in our country. Current activities and topics of future plans are also discussed...

The development of new active agents, along with rapid progress in biomedical technology in recent decades, has resulted in major progress in cancer treatment, but at the same time it has made cancer management much more complex: Medical ..

The aim of the paper is to inform about the requirements laid on education in the fields of Biomedical Technology and Biomedical Engineering in the connection with legal provisions on non-medical health service occupations in the Czech ..

..increasingly flourished in the field of technology assessments and technology policy making, including biomedical technology. Next, major institutions, governmental and nongovernmental, involved in the ethical aspects of medical ..

..Disease, 2002), as well as the strategic priority (2009-2013) of the NCRR to incorporate innovations in biomedical technology into clinical research, and the NIBIB's Strategic Plan (2006) to foster interdisciplinary research ..

..A wealth of scientific expertise on biothreat agents and contemporary biomedical technology will be applied to establishing the scientific basis and translating it through 11 major research projects,..

..Nerve agent exposures are a serious threat and can cause brain injury and death. We will develop an automated system to diagnose EEG seizure activity in the brain to help care for attack victims. ..

Koronis Biomedical Technology Corporation (KBT) proposes to develop a giant magneto-resistive (GMR) sensor for use in ultrathin bronchoscope navigation systems...

..Therefore, all theoretical and experimental studies will be conducted to evaluate applicability of the developed methods for ophthalmologic applications. ..

..Therefore, all theoretical and experimental studies will be conducted to evaluate applicability of the developed methods for ophthalmologic applications. ..

..This initial work will provide the technical foundation for the further development of tools that will help clinicians not only diagnose but more importantly employ image-guided therapies. ..

..clinical arena will have significant impact on the morbidity, mortality, and quality of life for the large number of children and adults with respiratory failure, as well as establishing an innovative realm of biomedical technology.

..the clinical arena will have significant impact on the morbidity, mortality, and quality of life for the large number of children and adults with respiratory failure, as well as establishing an innovative realm of biomedical technology.

..Conference participants will include: biomedical and behavioral investigators; government officials; U.S. and other nation's policy makers; and community representatives. ..

..The proposed research has relevance to public health because new tools in imaging pulmonary cancers will not only improve patient treatment, but will also accelerate research to develop better therapies. ..

..and the factors that govern reactivity will provide penetrating insight into the rational design of new biomedical technology. However, these applications demand new methodological advances...

..In Phase II, KBT will complete the instrumentation development, experiment with detection algorithms, and validate the instrument and algorithms in clinical tests. ..

..This should help create the necessary work force of varied interests in the health care field. ..

..will have significant impact on the morbidity, mortality, and quality of life for the large number of children and adults with respiratory failure, as well as establishing an innovative realm of biomedical technology.

..Together, these resources will create a multidisciplinary training experience difficult to achieve elsewhere. ..

The Laser Microbeam and Medical Program (LAMMP) is a NIH Biomedical Technology Resource Center dedicated to the use of lasers and optics in biology and medicine...

The Laser Microbeam and Medical Program (LAMMP) is a NIH Biomedical Technology Resource Center dedicated to the use of lasers and optics in biology and medicine...

..The goal of this SBIR phase I project is to develop a research tool that provides minimally- invasive, non-intrusive, wearable, and cost-effective devices that can be integrated into the daily lives of the elderly. ..

The PI and 3 co-PI's aim to develop new biomedical technology by validating the general principle that externally stimulated nanoparticles can be used as real-time actuators (input transducers) to exert control, perturbation, or ..