Featured Blog Posts – September 2010 Archive (3)

Content: Day 1 ATA (American Telemedicine Association) Mid-Year Meeting ... Priceless!

"It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.” ... Charles Darwin

Colleagues,

In the continuing quest to bring you the 3Cs of "Content, Community and Collaboration", I offer you a summation of… Continue

Added by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight on September 28, 2010 at 7:52am — 5 Comments

Thought Controlled Artificial Limbs

I wrote about the possibility of brain-controlled artificial limbs in “The Future of Medicine” but now there has been real progress. At Johns Hopkins Applied Physics laboratory, scientists have progressed with their design of an artificial limb that will have a brain controlled interface. The model came about through a contract with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) which has been looking for a prosthetic arm that would be many leagues… Continue

Added by Stephen C Schimpff on September 14, 2010 at 4:10pm — No Comments

Real-Time Medical Video Website Uses Identity Verification to Verify Its Members and Combat Fraud

Brandon Winchester, MD, anesthesiologist at Duke University School of Medicine, set out to accomplish the unprecedented in medical education when he and his colleague, Stuart Grant, MB ChB founded DOCSTREAM Inc. The company's proprietary product, DOCSTREAM.COM provides clinicians with a web-based community to upload or watch live or on-demand videos of medical procedures. Because the site is only for medical professionals, the company has incorporated IDology's identity verification solutions… Continue

Added by Jodi Florence on September 14, 2010 at 1:29pm — No Comments