| Leslie Versweyveld 2005-09-24, 2:13 pm |
| Dear All,
Please note that the September issue of the Virtual Medical Worlds
Magazine is now available on-line at http://www.hoise.com/vmw.
This month's edition features contributions on the benefits of robots in
gastric bypass and prostate surgery; the use of the computer-assisted
navigation systems OrthoPilot and AchieveCAS in hip and knee implant
surgery; a German computer-assisted planning system for pancreatic
surgery; surgical navigation and advanced instrumentation for trauma,
maxillofacial and spine surgery; and the establishment of a new
Orthopaedic Surgery Navigation Training Centre in Montréal.
Maybe, you prefer to use the handy click-through menu below to learn
more about wearable health IT systems; Medisentio, a new medical
professional diagnostic software; the emergence of Grid technology to
perform innovative e-science in the United Kingdom and e-research in
Australia; eHI Foundation's recent report on Health Information
Exchange (HIE) efforts; nanotechnology for portable genetic risk
detection in the Optonanogen project; and many more.
Our contact e-mail address is vmw@hoise.com. Please, feel welcome to
send us:
* news and contributions on telemedicine, Virtual Reality, Grid- and
HPCN-related medical applications,
E-health, health care compunetics, 3G medicine, medically-applied RFID,
and health care implemented information technology;
* company or project stories;
* press releases;
* conference announcements;
* requests for banner and job adds - (please, ask about our friendly
rates!)
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Kind Regards and Pleasant Readings,
Ad Emmen
Leslie Versweyveld
The VMW editorial team
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Click-through menu of the Virtual Medical Worlds September Issue 2005:
Radiotherapy Department in Bergen makes smooth transition to total
Varian system and offers more targeted treatments for cancer patients
http://www.hoise.com/vmw/05/article...VM-09-05-1.html
Scientists reach back 2000 years to bring rare child mummy back to life
http://www.hoise.com/vmw/05/article...VM-09-05-2.html
VEPRO has published its PACS market share in Germany for the first time
http://www.hoise.com/vmw/05/article...VM-09-05-3.html
Wearable Health IT Systems
http://www.hoise.com/vmw/05/article...VM-09-05-4.html
Medical professional diagnostic software Medisentio: a medical Google
model
http://www.hoise.com/vmw/05/article...VM-09-05-5.html
Home telehealth in partnership with Newham university Hospital NHS Trust
to provide remote patient monitoring
http://www.hoise.com/vmw/05/article...VM-09-05-6.html
IDX announces winners of 2005 Carecast Customer Innovation Awards
http://www.hoise.com/vmw/05/article...VM-09-05-7.html
Telemedicine links high-risk pregnant women and specialists in Marlyland
http://www.hoise.com/vmw/05/article...VM-09-05-8.html
US Army grants LiveData award to enhance patient safety at MGH/CIMIT
operating room of the future
http://www.hoise.com/vmw/05/article...VM-09-05-9.html
ORTHOsoft awarded grant for Orthopaedic Training Centre
http://www.hoise.com/vmw/05/article...M-09-05-10.html
Siemens Medical and Xilinx team to deliver breakthrough 3D medical
imaging solutions
http://www.hoise.com/vmw/05/article...M-09-05-11.html
NuVasive acquires cervical nucleus-like replacement device from
Pearsalls
http://www.hoise.com/vmw/05/article...M-09-05-12.html
Louisiana State university Health Science Center innovation in patient
safety training to improve surgical outcomes
http://www.hoise.com/vmw/05/article...M-09-05-13.html
Da Vinci robotic technique shows promise in weight-loss surgery
http://www.hoise.com/vmw/05/article...M-09-05-14.html
e-Science methods reveal new insights into antibiotic resistance
http://www.hoise.com/vmw/05/article...M-09-05-15.html
Animals warn of human health hazards in new Canary Database
http://www.hoise.com/vmw/05/article...M-09-05-16.html
GeneGo is awarded Phase II NIH grant for in silico assessment of drug
metabolism and toxicity
http://www.hoise.com/vmw/05/article...M-09-05-17.html
Rochester researchers take fantastic voyage through the human body
http://www.hoise.com/vmw/05/article...M-09-05-18.html
Innovative hospitals offer amenities enabling patients and visitors to
stay connected to their regular daily lives
http://www.hoise.com/vmw/05/article...M-09-05-19.html
Oddball science helps locked in people communicate via a brain computer
interface
http://www.hoise.com/vmw/05/article...M-09-05-20.html
BrainLAB collaborates with Synthes and Biomet to advance trauma, spine,
hips, knees, and maxillofacial surgery
http://www.hoise.com/vmw/05/article...M-09-05-21.html
FDA clears Siemens ARCADIS Avantic mobile C-arm with wide range of
clinical applications for use in surgery
http://www.hoise.com/vmw/05/article...M-09-05-22.html
Bridgetech partners with Chinese university of Hong Kong, United Premier
Medical Group and Biofield
http://www.hoise.com/vmw/05/article...M-09-05-23.html
VeriChip expands hospital infrastructure with VeriChip system for
patient identification
http://www.hoise.com/vmw/05/article...M-09-05-24.html
Fleet Science Center joins World Community Grid
http://www.hoise.com/vmw/05/article...M-09-05-25.html
University of Iowa professor receives $142.750 NIH grant to advance
medical imaging
http://www.hoise.com/vmw/05/article...M-09-05-26.html
St. Charles Hospital first in Northeast to perform computer-assisted
OrthoPilot total hip replacement surgery
http://www.hoise.com/vmw/05/article...M-09-05-27.html
Nanotechnology to provide portable genetic risk detection
http://www.hoise.com/vmw/05/article...M-09-05-28.html
Smith & Nephew's computer-assisted surgery system to allow precise knee
implants
http://www.hoise.com/vmw/05/article...M-09-05-29.html
eHI Foundation releases national report on Health Information Exchange
(HIE) efforts
http://www.hoise.com/vmw/05/article...M-09-05-30.html
iSentry launches Digital Witness
http://www.hoise.com/vmw/05/article...M-09-05-31.html
University of Queensland leads Australia in innovative e-research
http://www.hoise.com/vmw/05/article...M-09-05-32.html
Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum develops valuable software for
pancreatic surgery
http://www.hoise.com/vmw/05/article...M-09-05-33.html
Robot-assisted prostate surgery has possible benefits despite high cost
http://www.hoise.com/vmw/05/article...M-09-05-34.html
Robotic gastric bypass surgery to prove its worth, according to recent
study
http://www.hoise.com/vmw/05/article...M-09-05-35.html
ALR Technologies reaches product development milestones with their
disease management home monitoring system
http://www.hoise.com/vmw/05/article...M-09-05-36.html
SCI Solutions' scheduling.com proves speed and scalability expertise in
small and large hospitals alike
http://www.hoise.com/vmw/05/article...M-09-05-37.html
Cells direct membrane traffic by channel width, according to scientists
http://www.hoise.com/vmw/05/article...M-09-05-38.html
Delphi Medical Systems offers cost-effective electronic medical record
software
http://www.hoise.com/vmw/05/article...M-09-05-39.html
SGI to install leading-edge HPC environment for data-intensive computing
at Dresden Technical University
http://www.hoise.com/vmw/05/article...M-09-05-40.html
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