Medical Technology

Friend of the Gallery, Vardan Meliksetyan, emailed me this first video and you all know how much I appreciate the Kinect's power and possibilities in the medical field. Since I already had another X-TECh story in the queue, I thought it a good time to bring you them both! Kinect Virtual Group…

Today's inspirational project provides a continuing view of how the Kinect is just so much more than a gaining device... "Kinecting” to telemedicineA solution from the videogame world—Kinect for Windows—could become a revolutionary new way for patients with Parkinson's disease to do rehab at…

From something as simple as a paperclip to far more complex machines such as computers, there are a wide variety of machines forming a regular part of our daily lives. None, however, come close to the complexity found in the machine that is the human being.When you think of Microsoft, you might…

When AdvancedMD acquired their electronic medical records product, they standardized on SQL Server for their Software-as-a-Service product. Troy Young, Chief Architect at AdvancedMD, explains the decision to Bruce Kyle, ISV Architect Evangelist. AdvancedMD has been a Gold Certified Microsoft…

OK, well…not exactly. But the popular game console is making its contribution to medical science these days. Dr Simon Scarle, a researcher in the University of Warwick’s WMG Digital Laboratory, wanted to study cardiac arrhythmias using simulations which typically involve booking time on a dedicated…

Scott Carney, Director of Development for Siemens Medical has a balancing act in developing workflow applications for hospitals; data and processes are aggregated from different platform applications but need to be ultimately seamless , secure and ready available for the end user. Scott discusses…

Okay, the moment we have all been waiting for...or at least Arztek has been waiting for. Many, many months ago I went to Genelex in Seattle to have my DNA tested. We hear lots about deoxyribonucleic acid, but for the most part it's because of paternity and legal issues. Well, I wanted to find out…