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Archives for June 2009

TED Talk: Surgery’s past, present and robotic future

Catherine Mohr is quite an incredible women. She is both an engineer and a medical doctor. She combines these two fields with her great inventions which help advance surgery. Take a look at her TED Talk in which she presents the newest robotic tools for surgery, but also remembers the beginnings of this art/craft/science.

22 June 2009 | design, medicine, science | 1 Comment

AirStrip CRITICAL CARE

The Apple Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) is taking place in San Francisco right now. On the first day Apple introduced the new iPhone 3G S. They also continued their tradition of presenting some interesting upcoming applications. AirStrip Technologies has presented its new medical app called Critical Care. I really don’t have any comments at this […]

10 June 2009 | iphone, medicine | No Comments

‘Medical Video Games’ Provide Great Training for Healthcare Professionals

By-line: DENA WHITE is a freelance writer and covers topics such as nurse assistant and medical careers, health care topics, and more. Just a quick search on the Internet and you can see some great screenshots from the video game Zero Hour. Zero Hour is a fantastic video game that has you playing as an […]

6 June 2009 | internet, medicine, science | 4 Comments

Interview with Lee Aase

Maybe you read the post I recently wrote about a slideshow describing how Mayo Clinic utilizes social media in fantastic ways. This slideshow was created by Lee Aase (@LeeAase), who happens to be manager of Syndication and Social Media for Mayo Clinic (@mayoclinic). Mr. Aase, despite his busy schedule, was kind enough to answer some […]

2 June 2009 | interview, medicine | 2 Comments