Archive for November, 2007
Friday, November 30th, 2007
Another interesting concept is about "Ambient Assisted Living".
“Ambient Assisted Living” is a new European research area for projects that enable elderly people to lead a longer and more independent life in their own homes. First Calls are supposed to be issued in 2008. The XING AAL Group aims to build ...
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Wednesday, November 28th, 2007
How social networking and Web 2.0 technologies revolutionize health care, wellness, clinical medicine and biomedical research
In the past few years we have seen the rapid evolution of new tools and programming techniques collectively called “Web 2.0 tools”, which facilitate the development of collaborative and user-friendly Web applications.
Typically, the Web 2.0 ...
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Wednesday, November 28th, 2007
It has been from a long time that medical tourism exists as a concept. Germany offering services to Middle East, Inidia, Tailandia, Philipines offering cheaper services plus tourism adavantages to patients.
Here you will see an example
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Sunday, November 25th, 2007
By Miguel Cabrer, LeaderHealth Consultant.
Medical tourism is starting to be a solid concept with some mature business cases. Also some conferences are being organised.
In fact, in few days the World Health Tourism Congress and the European Congress on Health Tourism will take place in europe.
The 3rd annual World ...
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Thursday, November 22nd, 2007
Cardiothoracic surgeons from Sentara Heart Hospital will be performing a lobectomy for lung cancer using minimally invasive techniques and skills that are helping patients recover quicker, with better long-term outcomes.
Dr. Joseph Newton, Jr. and Dr. Kirk Fleischer, both board certified cardiothoracic surgeons, will be participating in this webcast.
See more
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Thursday, November 22nd, 2007
Health 2.0 is going to have an important impact on the patient-physicians relationship. In this post I would like to get some comments about new relevant Health 2.0 innitiatives considered relevant and of a high impact.
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