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According to their website the hospital is using the latest version of the robot which includes dual consoles and 3D vision for the surgeons.  This is the first mention I have heard of the robot for womens healthcare surgeries as we all know it has been used extensively for prostate and heart surgeries.  Now all we need is like Johns Hopkins has done with the $150 Kinect, hook it up and create some no go safety zones:)  Kinect might end up being daVinci s best one friend one day. 

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Who does not think that processing 200 million pages of information in 3 seconds is not useful for making laws?  With using speech recognition even the lowest common denominator with tech skills in Congress can query and participate so every body gets covered. 

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I about flipped out on this one and if there wasnt a big long line behind me I would walked but ok so now theres one bottle of wine listed that I purchased that connects back to data on my drivers license.  When the clerk asked for my drivers license, being a person in my mid 50s, we all take as a back door compliment but when she scanned itoh boy wait a minute.  I talk about the misuse and abuse of data analytics all the time here and it happens and you dont need to look any further for that than the Governor of Arizona if you want a glaring example of digital illiterates that couldnt find that small amount of dollars relatively speaking for transplant patients.  Anyway, being I research this all the time, its the data selling game as Target has pharmacies and we all know the ton of money made selling our prescription data.   This is a full on rant here, so you are warned.

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The Clinical Movement Assessment System (CMAS) is designed for a wide variety of medical applications and could potentially benefit health care professionals and facilities specializing in the areas of physical medicine and rehabilitation, neurology, orthopedics, and physical and occupational therapy.  Clinical trials began in January of 2010. 

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This is good as consumers need to know and if you read here enough you can hear me rant about all the mHealth devices that only do one thing and to have value and make it easier for consumers, having software that can do more than one thing is important.  There are many good apps out there today as well and knowing the difference just simply due to the times we live in today with some really good breakthrough technologies makes is difficult at times.  We live in world where everyone is marketing every inch of a product or software do we do get overwhelmed and a while back I talked about this fact, it is all around us as well as some flawed data lurking around the web too. 

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In trust with politicians we are ranked at 50th place, and not a big secret there with digital illiteracy running rampant through our Lawmakers at every level including Washing ton.  In macro economics (this includes math) the US is in 90th place.  There are others of course worse than the US, but when you think back to just a few years ago, the US was at the top of almost all the categories.  We hear this from companies who operate in the US and have international interests as well, Intel is one example.  Bill Gates too has testified year after year in front of Congress trying to get a stir going as well, folks that code predict but many have not figured out this bit of wisdom yet. 

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Ok here’s one for the good algorithms that audit and track back and match up claims to ensure everything was in divine order.  With analytics those who bill for things out of the ordinary stick out like a sore thumb when a large dollar amount is shown and good to see its finally being used to track down fraud.  In addition to lawmakers efforts theres also the HHS Most Wanted List you can check as well if you think you have seen any of the individuals out on the loose.  Chinese medicine that was administered obviously didnt code right:)

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This is good thing and its the same process that should and does take place when creating medical records, seeing and understanding both sides of the story.  We also know that the FDA desperately needs engineers just like the rest of businesses in the US as well due to the fact that many more devices have software attached either directly or wireless use.   BD

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This makes sense obviously as you protect your eyes and other body parts but I guess the chest area for women here was not something anyone though about much until one paintball shot hit the bulls eye.  Its either that or dont play Paintball if you have artificial boobs is what common sense tells me here.  Just the thought of an implant covered with paint is not particularly something anyone might want to see. 

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Here we go again, its the contracts and the costing algorithms of the insurance companies that are their business models that determine what reimbursement will be.  The article states that now they are close to agreement so maybe this wont last too long, but in the meantime you cant go there as of Setember1st and letters went out back in February that this would come around, and it did.  See how long it takes to negotiate insurer contracts today?   This means for right now you cant go there or visit some of their physicians to get care where Steve Jobs reported went for some of his care.  About a year ago they opened a premier medial school. 

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