by medicaltechont | Jan 27, 2016 | Uncategorized
As computer technology continues to develop at an almost light-speed pace, more devices are being created to monitor human activity, without being a cumbersome accessory to everyday life.
Smart technology is now designed in many cases to adapt and mold into items that we use everyday and that can mean anything from phones, to watches and now even clothing.
The Montreal based company Carre Technologies back in 2013 invented the “world’s first biometric smart shirt” called Hexoskin and they just introduced their latest edition called the Hexoskin Smart.
Read more at http://www.techvibes.com/blog/hexoskin-wearable-tech-2016-01-21
by medicaltechont | Oct 24, 2015 | Uncategorized
TORONTO — A three year old boy from Guelph, now has a surgery date set in the U.S., thanks to an outpouring of community support.
Bentley Mitchell has cerebral palsy and currently needs a walker to get around. SDR surgery, offered in St. Louis Children’s Hospital, could help him walk independently.
Bentley was the guest of honour at Granite Homes annual golf tournament in Guelph, Ont.
The tournament donated nearly $35,000 raised by participants to Bentley.
His parents had been working for months to raise $125,000 for the surgery and related costs. They have now met their goal.
“It’s been amazing the support we’ve had. You can’t even put into words how touching it is,” said Chad Mitchell, Bentley’s father.
http://globalnews.ca/news/2242425/child-poised-for-surgery-in-u-s-despite-being-denied-ohip-funding/
by medicaltechont | Sep 6, 2014 | Uncategorized
Microsoft will seek to draw more people to its Internet-based services with two new mid-range smartphones it unveiled Thursday, including one designed to help people take better selfies.
The devices are under the Lumia brand Microsoft bought from Nokia. They run the latest version of Windows Phone 8 and feature Cortana, a Siri-like voice assistant available to help with directions, calendar appointments and messages. Many of those interactions will steer users to Microsoft services such as Bing search and OneDrive storage.
Chris Weber, Microsoft’s vice president for mobile devices sales, insisted consumers should feel comfortable about storing their personal pictures on OneDrive, despite the recent exposure of celebrities’ private pictures stored on rival Apple’s cloud-based system.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/microsoft-unveils-new-lumia-smartphones-1.2755376
by medicaltechont | Apr 10, 2014 | Uncategorized
A comparison between the results of the 2007 and the 2010 National Physician Survey (NPS) shows that exclusive use of electronic medical records (EMRs) by family physicians, general physicians, and other specialists across Canada has increased from 10% to 16%. The province of Alberta leads the way with 28% of physicians exclusively using EMRs, followed by Ontario (20%) and British Columbia (19%).
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by medicaltechont | Apr 5, 2014 | Uncategorized
Health Minister Ambrose Tours First Nations Health Centre
Canada NewsWire
SIKSIKA FIRST NATION, AB, April 4, 2014
Latest Technology Improving Health Delivery to Siksika Nation
SIKSIKA FIRST NATION, AB, April 4, 2014 /CNW/ – Today, Minister Ambrose toured the Siksika Health Centre to see first-hand the innovations and the latest technologies being used to improve the health and well-being of First Nations.
The Centre, which opened in 2007, is one of the most technologically advanced First Nations health centres. It was built and operates as a partnership between the Siksika Nation, the Government of Canada and the Government of Alberta.
During the tour, Minister saw first-hand the impact of recent investments in electronic health records and heard about the broad range of clinical and preventative health services offered.
Following the tour, Minister Ambrose was also briefed on the efforts by the Siksika community to rebuild the buildings and repair the damage done by last spring’s historic flood.
Read more: http://www.digitaljournal.com/pr/1833648#ixzz2y1foNgf6
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by medicaltechont | Apr 5, 2011 | Uncategorized
Not a particularly deep or wide river, but due to the geographic history of the Midwest, a river with a bottom full of massive pits and dips, dug out by glaciers and the debris they shoved around this part of the world 15,000 years ago. Because of these formations, this particular river is rather dangerous to be in for swimmers–at any point, an undercurrent can drag you under the surface, to be trapped in whatever pit or dead tree lies beneath.
It looks calm on the surface, placid even. But it is not.
There is an undercurrent of legal issues troubling the open source world these days. While things are going great in some aspects–cloud, mobile, server–there is a definite potential for trouble from litigious attacks on any of the successful technologies open source has helped create.
If this sounds like fear, uncertainty, and doubt, it is assuredly not. But if there’s a bear in your house, you can’t just ignore it and hope it will go away. You call animal control.
FUD is the obvious intention of those who have instigated the various legal troubles on open source practitioners. Fear specifically: ramp it up to intimidation, and you’ve got a potential licensing revenue channel on your hands.
Such troubles, from the scores of software patents that are used to “protect” intellectual property, are obvious.
But no less troublesome, I believe, is the issue of copyright and copyright assignments.
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