Kevin Hauser, Director New Business Development at MedeFile International discusses the advanced features and benefits of their technology. These include MedeMinder and the Interactive Healthcare Calendar, which function…
Kevin Hauser, Director of New Business Development at MedeFile International discusses their technology. MedeFile has developed a proprietary system for gathering and digitizing medical records so that individuals…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – New research indicates that operative times are independently and directly linked to the risk of infectious complications and the length of hospital stay.…
An interview with Adam Bosworth, founder of Keas. Keas is a web-based patient resource whose mission is to help patients understand what their health data means and how…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – An American Urological Association guideline — that heme-positive dipstick tests in asymptomatic patients be confirmed microscopically before urology referral – is often ignored,…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Full assessment of carotid artery plaques requires more than one imaging modality, say researchers from the Netherlands. “Positron emission tomography (PET) imaging allows…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – For diagnosing pulmonary embolism, single-photon emission CT (SPECT) lung scintigraphy is a viable alternative to CT pulmonary angiography (CTPA), and it offers advantages…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The Prove-it sepsis assay (Mobidiag, Helsinki, Finland) is highly sensitive and specific in identifying bacterial species in blood samples and provides much faster…
A new study suggests that patient safety experts should focus as much of their attention on human factors as system factors if they want to reduce avoidable medical…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The risk of venous thromboembolism (VTE) after surgery is probably higher and longer-lasting than previously thought, data from the UK’s Million Women Study…