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Nuance Cloud Medical Speech Recognition to Power Mobile Devices, Watson Supercomputer

by Gene Ostrovsky on Feb 25, 2011 •

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Nuance Communications out of Burlington, Massachusetts is now offering its cloud-based clinical speech recognition technology to developers for integration into their applications. Because processing is done externally of the device where speech is captured, powerful voice recognition can be introduced to relatively slow computing devices like tablets and smartphones. Additionally, IBM is partnering with Nuance to couple its victorious Watson supercomputer with medical speech recognition to provide clinical decision making at the point of care.

The Nuance Healthcare Development Platform supports multiple devices and operating systems. By providing all of the CPU intensive speech and language processing in the cloud, this new platform enables Healthcare ISVs (Independent Software Vendors) and internal development teams at provider and payer organizations to seamlessly embed Nuance’s SpeechAnywhere capabilities and CLU functionality as part of browser-based applications, mobile applications and thin-client desktop solutions. The flexible environment of
this new platform as a service expands the delivery of Nuance’s speech and CLU technologies to empower healthcare organizations, physicians, interdisciplinary care teams and patients to achieve better patient
documentation, better process and better care.

Press release: Nuance Healthcare Development Platform Brings Medical Speech; IBM to Collaborate with Nuance to Apply IBM’s ‘Watson’ Analytics Technology to Healthcare …

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PracticeFusion Now Available on iPad, Android Tablets

by Gene Ostrovsky on Feb 24, 2011
PracticeFusion Now Available on iPad, Android Tablets

Practice Fusion is now offering iPad and Android tablet access to its free online EMR via the popular LogMeIn Ignition app. The $30 app is designed to allow remote access to other computers and Practice Fusion teamed with LogMeIn to make it available for their EMR.

With a free Practice Fusion EMR account and a $29.95 LogMeIn Ignition for iPhone/iPad app, medical providers can use an iPad to chart anywhere they have cell or WiFi reception.

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Barco Upgrades Its ProScribe Tablet

by Gene Ostrovsky on Feb 24, 2011
Barco Upgrades Its ProScribe Tablet

Barco has upgraded its ProScribe point-of-care tablet PC with more horsepower and the latest version of Windows Embedded Standard operating system.

The new and upgraded ProScribe, labeled MTPP-0212, inherits all these established benefits, but has been fitted with a faster 1.6 GHz processor, 1 GB internal RAM and a whole series of options, including up to 16 GB Compact Flash memory and 32 GB Solid State memory.

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FDA-Cleared Mobile MIM Released on Apple App Store

by Smit Shah on Feb 16, 2011
FDA-Cleared Mobile MIM Released on Apple App Store

Just over a week after it received 510(k) clearance from the FDA, MIM Software, Inc.‘s Mobile MIM imaging app has been given Apple’s blessing as well. Starting today, the free Mobile MIM app is available in Apple’s iTunes App Store, and is compatible with all iOS devices. Mobile MIM allows doctors to securely access CT, PET,MRI, and SPECT images stored online using the company’s MIMcloud service.
From the press release:

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IBM Watson Could Revolutionize Healthcare

by Scott Jung on Feb 16, 2011
IBM Watson Could Revolutionize Healthcare

If you’ve been watching Jeopardy! over the past couple days, you probably know that IBM’s highly-advanced artificial intelligence software, Watson, has been competing against Jeopardy!’s most successful contestants (and as of Tuesday night, took a commanding lead over the humans, despite having some trouble with United States geography).
Besides the amazing ability to power through Daily Doubles and answer random trivia in the form of a question, IBM researchers believe that Watson could revolutionize the healthcare industry. From diagnostics to informatics, Watson could quickly search through medical records, clinical documents, and research information for precise answers that would benefit both doctors and patients.

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Personal Health Card from LifeNexus: Patient Records With Payment Card Functionality

by Gene Ostrovsky on Feb 15, 2011
Personal Health Card from LifeNexus: Patient Records With Payment Card Functionality

Don’t be dismayed by the incorrect depiction of the Rod of Asclepius on yet another medical logo. Putting the wings aside, the technology is certainly interesting. LifeNexus, Inc. from Broomfield, Colorado, has announced today a launch of an electronic health card that combines an individual’s health record and a payment card option. The company has worked for years with MasterCard, Visa, VeriFone, Emdeon, and others, to deliver this technology to the market. According to the company’s statement, the LifeNexus Personal Health Card is powered by a proprietary iChip technology (Individually Controlled Health Information Platform™), that utilizes "mobile server" technology “embedded on a chip card which is both encrypted and password-protected, providing a highly secure environment to store comprehensive and potentially lifesaving health information for individuals and their family members.” Before a patient or provider can use the card, the LifeNexus requires a download of desktop software.
More details on such things as Health Savings Accounts and other financial implications, as released by the company:

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Mobile MIM App First to Receive FDA Clearance for Viewing Radiological Images

by Scott Jung on Feb 7, 2011
Mobile MIM App First to Receive FDA Clearance for Viewing Radiological Images

MIM Software, Inc. out of Cleveland, Ohio, has announced that its multi-modality imaging software, Mobile MIM, has received 510(k) clearance from the FDA, showing it to be safe and effective for “viewing images and making medical diagnoses based on computed tomography (CT), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), and nuclear medicine technology, such as positron emission tomography (PET). It is not intended to replace full workstations and is indicated for use only when there is no access to a workstation.”
For the app’s review, the FDA performed various tests that measured luminance, image quality (resolution), and noise. These tests were performed under various lighting conditions, which often create significant, but important differences in images.

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“Visualizing the medical data explosion”

by Gene Ostrovsky on Feb 4, 2011

Anders Ynnerman, chair of scientific visualization at Linköping University and founder of the Norrköping Visualization and Interaction Studio (NVIS), gave a talk at TEDxGöteborg about how modern tomography machines, huge data sets, and ultra-fast graphics cards are changing medicine.

Link @ TED…

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Walgreens’ Mobile Apps Allow Prescription Renewal via Phone’s Camera

by Dan Buckland on Feb 1, 2011
Walgreens' Mobile Apps Allow Prescription Renewal via Phone's Camera

Walgreens is following the mobile apps trend with a new app for most of the major platforms (iOS, Android, and BlackBerry. Sorry WP7!) that allows users to renew prescriptions by taking a photo of the barcode on a pill bottle using a smartphone, or by just keying in the prescription code.
Other abilities of the app:

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