TeleTracking Technologies will preview its next-generation RTLS solution at the 2011 Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation Conference and Expo in San Antonio later this week, according to a company news release.
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Ohio State University Medical Center in Columbus says it has become the first hospital in the state to live-tweet a surgery after it tracked the progress of a minimally invasive knee-replacement procedure on Twitter Monday, according to a MedCity News…
TeleTracking Technologies released its Patient Flow Dashboard, which is powered by Teletracking XT application and designed to help hospital leadership monitor the real-time status of enterprise-wide flow operations, according to a company news release.
Just one year after Apple launched its iPad tablet computer, almost one-third of physicians own this new technology, according to a report by the American Medical News. The market research firm Knowledge Networks reported that 27 percent of primary care…
Nurses at Vanderbilt University are using avatars and entering virtual worlds to interact with patients and do online training with students, according to a Tennessean news report.
University of California, San Francisco Medical Center has received the largest gift in its history — a $48 million bequest to benefit pulmonary medicine research and care, according to a UCSF news release. The bequest comes from the estate of…
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center is planning to open an imaging center in West Mifflin, Penn., according to a Pittsburgh Tribune-Review report. The center is planned to include oncology, MRI, CT, diagnostic radiology, ultrasound and other imaging services. UPMC bought…
Midland (Texas) Memorial Hospital will be installing a software system that would increase communication and efficiency between various hospital departments, according to a Midland Reporter-Telegram news report.
Johns Hopkins researchers say they have identified practical strategies to implement environmentally friendly practices in operating rooms and other hospital facilities that could result in vastly reduced health care costs and pose no risk to patient safety, according to a…
Mayo Clinic and Arizona State University in Phoenix have signed a formal agreement to form closer ties and enhanced levels of future collaboration, according to an ASU news release. While the two organizations have been collaborating since 2003, the agreement…