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Which way will it health care technology go?
Check out: Medicine goes digital
Some things never change.
The need to slow down the speed of modern technology continues . . .
See:
U.S. Hospitals Slow to Adopt E-Records
Check out the study:
Use of Electronic Health Records in U.S. Hospitals
The fight over the use of technology within the Health Care industry has only just begun!
You knew it had to happen.
Check out:
Wal-Mart plans to market digital health records system
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TECHNOLOGY STRUGGLE
MEDICAL RECORDS STIMULUS
Health Care as we know it is changing right before our eyes.
What is Bursty Data?
Definition: Short, intense transmissions of grouped, related information. LAN (Local Area Network) traffic is typically bursty. Sometimes called "boluses of data" by medical clinicians.
What is ASDL (Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line)?
Definition: ADSL is a form of Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) Internet service. ADSL provides greater bandwidth for downloads at the expense of upload speeds. ADSL is the most common form of DSL used in home networking.
ADSL is designed to support the typical home user who frequently downloads large amounts of data from Web sites and P2P networks but upload relatively less often. ADSL works by allocating a majority of the available phone line frequencies for communication of downstream traffic.
In other respects, ADSL possesses all of the characteristics one associates with DSL, including "high-speed" service, an "always on" combination of voice and data support, and availability and performance that is limited by physical distance. ADSL is technically capable of up to 6 Mbps (roughly 6000 Kbps), but ADSL customers in practice obtain 2 Mbps or lower for downloads and up to 512 Kbps for uploads.
What is Teleradiology?
Definition: A system that transmits images over a distance, using leased or switched transmission lines.
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What is Windowing?
Definition: A software manipulation technique, using mathematical algorithms, to compensate for a teleradiology monitor's inability to provide the same contrast and bit depth as the original hardcopy X-ray.
Pixels within a certain range of bit-depth values are assigned the full range of possible grayscale values, while those outside that range are either white or black.
This allows emphasis of contrast for those structures that lie within the grayscale "window."
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The politics of rising health care costs and technology are addressed in this interesting article:
Is Obama right that technology can lower health care costs?
Living on their own is a very big issue for most Senior citizens. Looks like technology is being created to help make live easier and safer for them.
Check out this article on how: High-tech sensors help seniors live independently
