by medicaltechont | Feb 19, 2015 | EHR, Hospitals
Scientists from the Helmholtz Zentrum München and the Technische Universität München have succeeded in a breakthrough for the further development of contrast agents and consequently improved diagnostics with imaging using MRI procedures. The results have been published in the “Angewandte Chemie International Edition” journal.
Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) offers a high-resolution procedure for the diagnostic imaging of patients. Often this procedure additionally uses contrast agents that clarify certain tissue structures and pathological processes. However the image signal that is generated in the MRI does not correlate with the actual quantitative concentration of contrast agent in the tissue.
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by medicaltechont | Feb 15, 2015 | Canada, Ontario
As a health care provider, your role in knowing the risks factors and getting people on the right track before they get type 2 diabetes and supporting those who have either type 1 or type 2 diabetes, is crucial to the health of Ontarians.
Along with the help of the Diabetes Education Programs, the Centres for Complex Diabetes Care, and other service providers in the community, it’s possible to win the fight against diabetes!
In this section, you will find information about the diabetes care reports, as well as various tools that you can use to counsel those people that may be at risk of developing diabetes or are living with either type 1 or type 2 diabetes.
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by medicaltechont | Nov 1, 2014 | Technology
Microsoft has launched a new platform dubbed Microsoft Health and a band that’s designed to track your health data and serve out insights. Microsoft Health also comes out of the gate with Android, iOS and Jawbone, MapMyFitness, MyFitnessPal and Runkeeper compatibility, but the real win may be in the cloud.
If Microsoft’s health effort and wearable sounds familiar that’s because the tech titans are all deploying similar efforts. Apple has its HealthKit effort—to be complemented by Apple Watch in early 2015—that has a long list of app and wearable partners sans Fitbit. Google Fit is another effort to aggregate the health data being tracked by a bevy of wearable devices and apps.
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by medicaltechont | Apr 5, 2014 | Uncategorized
Health Minister Ambrose Tours First Nations Health Centre
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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.
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by medicaltechont | Apr 5, 2014 | Privacy, private clinics, Technology, Toronto
Ontario Health Coalition says many clinics are billing patients for medically unnecessary services
Many private clinics in Ontario are misleading patients and billing them for medically unnecessary services, public health advocates charged Tuesday.
A “significant” number of clinics contacted by the Ontario Health Coalition were charging patients extra fees on top of billing the Ontario Health Insurance Plan for necessary procedures, such as colonoscopies, the group said.
One clinic was charging patients $50 “administrative fees” for such things as a snack and patient records, according to OHC, which worked with six university students to conduct the research.
Such fees were more common among cataract clinics, which were charging patients hundreds and even thousands of dollars for medically unnecessary tests and procedures when they came in for needed surgery, said OHC’s executive director Natalie Mehra.
Clinics are manipulating patients, who are confused about what they need and what they don’t need, she said. Some patients they spoke to were concerned that if they refused to pay extra fees, that they would get substandard care.
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