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What The Software Ordered: GE And Roche Launch New Digital Solution That Can Help Doctors Design Bespoke Cancer Treatments
Last year, GE Healthcare and Roche announced that they would collaborate to create clinical decision support solutions on shared digital platforms for so-called “precision health” in oncology and critical care, to be powered by data and smart algorithms.
Healthcare
Small Miracles: Pocket-Size Ultrasound Boosts Infant And Maternal Health In Rural Papua New Guinea
American nurse Marie Elizabeth Bell recently spent nine months in Papua New Guinea, where she worked at the Kunai Health Centre in the southwestern Pacific country’s remote Gulf Province. One patient left a particular impression on her: a woman named Yaniamo, who had experienced nine pregnancies — twice with twins — but had only six living children. Yaniamo was pregnant again, and when her water broke unexpectedly, she began to fear complications. She needed care from Bell’s clinic — a two-day walk from Yaniamo’s home. So she walked.
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Silver Lining: These Remote Clinics In China Are Using The Cloud To Fight Heart Disease
Healthcare
Expanding access to health care in Papua New Guinea with handheld ultrasound
Australia’s nearest neighbour Papua New Guinea spreads approximately 462,840 sq km (178-thousand sq miles) and is one of the most culturally diverse countries in the world with more than 800 languages spoken among more than 8 million inhabitants.
3D Printing
Love At First Touch: Brazilian Doctor Uses 3D Printing To Help Blind Parents Feel Baby's Ultrasound
Both Ana Paula and Alvaro, who live in São Paulo, Brazil, are legally blind. Their son, Davi Lucas, was strong and healthy, but there was no way their eyes could see the first grainy glimpses of their baby on the ultrasound monitor.
Healthcare
The Vroom Vroom Room: This Mobile MRI Trailer Helps Patients On Finland’s Frozen Frontier
Northern lights and elk steak dinners aside, living in northern Finland is not for the faint of heart. As the region is bisected by the Arctic Circle, local thermometers frequently dip below zero — Fahrenheit, that is — during the winter months, when night reigns in the far north and daylight lasts no more than a few hours a day farther south. The place can also be quite solitary.
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Digital Awakening: Engineers, Doctors Are Using Advanced Anesthesia Machines And New Insights from Data To Improve Patient Outcomes
General anesthesia, basically a reversible, medically induced coma, is one of the marvels of modern medicine. Carefully calibrated drugs, ventilators and other technology keep patients breathing and comfortable during their most vulnerable moments — and gratefully unable to recall what transpired on the surgical table. From their perspective, it’s simple: Breathe in, breathe out, wake up in a recovery bed. But for the healthcare providers, it’s a delicate art as well as a science.
History
Playing Detective: How GE Imaging Technology Helped Crack 5 Ancient Mysteries
First impressions can be misleading. In 1895, when Wilhelm Roentgen trained his cathode ray at his wife’s hand and took what may have been the world’s first human X-ray, she cried out, “I have seen my death!” — or so the story goes.
Medical Imaging
Smart Thinking: How One Doctor’s Invention Helped Uncover His Own Heart Defect
VR
Practice Makes Perfect: Kevin And The Art Of VR Maintenance
The unit was a goner, but there was no screaming or hand-wringing, and no money was lost. That’s because the entire scene played out inside virtual-reality goggles.