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Excellent article de mobihealthnews on "How camera phones can automate healthcare". The same company behind the technology that allows bank customers to deposit checks by camera phone i snow entering the healthcare business. Mitek Systems is offering its mobile imaging technology through an API so the developpers of smartphone applications can automate the complete paper based process. Take a picture of your docs and you're done! Read the complete article here


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The japanese population is aging and by 2015, the country will have 5.69 million people in need of nursing care. Lifting a patient from a bed to a wheelchair is very difficult so the researchers have manufactured a robot to help out. The RIBA II (Robot for Interactive Body Assistance) is a robot developed by the RIKEN research institute that can lift patients out of their wheelchairs, onto a bed, and back again. Check out a video of RIBA in action Do you think robots are the future of healthcare?


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To further slim its budgetary waistline, Merck & Co., has announced plans to cut up to 13,000 jobs by the end of 2015, with up to 40% of reductions scheduled to occur in the US.  These cuts are in addition to the 17,000 staff that had already been let go as a result of prior cost-cutting measures. The company disclosed that this new round of layoffs will save an additional $1.3 billion to $1.5 billion annually, on top of the expected $3.5 billion in annual savings expected by the end of 2012.  The numbers are still vague, as was the laundry list of departments that might suffer.


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Coffee & Capital, a new program at the University City Science Center, will help entrepreneurs over a major start-up hurdle: connecting with investors. Entrepreneurs will have a chance to sit down with an investor over a cup of coffee and get their questions answered as the Coffee & Capital program debuts Wednesday, July 20 in the new Quorum space at the Science Center, 3711 Market Street, Philadelphia, PA. The monthly program, which is sponsored by the Dolfinger-McMahon Foundation, will run from 8 - 9:30 a.m. “Coffee & Capital meets a key objective of the Quorum initiative by addressing...


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The Virtual Office Membership is an affordable choice for companies that want to signal their East Coast presence to current and future clients, without the cost of a physical move to Manhattan. The package includes: Your company’s individual address in Manhattan Free dedicated NY phone number Free desk and wireless Internet access Conference room access Mail forwarding Call forwarding Free referral to selected service providers (corporate attorneys, CPAs...) Free attendance at TrianaLabs events (FACE, Franklin's Lab, we are also co-sponsor of NYtech events and BioNJ events) Additional...


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"The business card-sized iCard ECG mounts to the back of your iDevice using velcro and wirelessly feeds data from its electrodes to the AliveECG app. The app automatically records 30 seconds of your heart’s rhythmic pulse before uploading it to AliveCor’s servers for sharing with your doctors." The bad news? They’re still awaiting FDA approval! Comment from TrianaHealth: Real-time monitoring is also very much useful to primary responders and EMTs prior to getting emergency patients to hospitals. Incredible tool; we can only imagine that the apparatus would be able to be adapted to different...


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Columbia Business School appoints The Triana Group’s healthcare technologies division founder and head, Lorraine Marchand, associate director and senior advisor of its Healthcare and Pharmaceutical Management Program New York. The Triana Group is pleased to announce that Lorraine Marchand, founder and head of its healthcare technologies division, has been appointed associate director and advisor to the Columbia Business School Healthcare and Pharmaceutical Management Program which serves the needs of the international business community including global pharmaceutical, biotechnology, technology...


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