LifeBridge Health centers in Baltimore, Md., have begun using a new device that makes drawing blood and inserting IVs an easier experience for patients.
Dr. Philip Payne, associate professor and Chair in the Department of Biomedical Informatics at The Ohio State University, is an internationally recognized leader in the fields of clinical research informatics and translational bioinformatics. In addition to his duties as Chair he is also Director of Data Management Services within the Ohio State Comprehensive Cancer Center’s Biomedical Informatics Shared Resource and Co-Executive Director for the Ohio State Center for IT Innovation in Healthcare (CITIH). The author of over 90 publications, Payne’s research has served to define a new sub-domain of biomedical informatics theory and practice focused on clinical research applications.
A digital dumping ground lies inside most computers, a wasteland where old, rarely used and unneeded files pile up. Such data can deplete precious storage space, bog down the system’s efficiency and sap its energy. What;s the best approach to cleaning up the mess?
In two articles in Nano Letters, Penn State materials scientists describe advances that could make graphene a viable technology for use in radio frequency applications.
New integrated circuit devices could finally open up the electromagnetic spectrum's notoriously inaccessible terahertz band.
Make headway, Max Headroom! Meant to be Cornell classroom demonstration, a robot avatar conversation quickly turned into the spat chat heard around the world.
Helping solve cross layer network incompatibility issues will speed Internet access, and open room for more wireless traffic, without a lull in service.
This fall, more than 4,000 University of Michigan students in nearly 20 classes will be utilizing LectureTools, an interactive presentation tool that harnesses the potential of laptops and cell phones to serve as learning aids rather than distracting devices.
Thanks to the power and connectivity of today's mobile devices, video telephony will soon be everywhere.
Intel's latest random-number generator taps into thermal noise and churns out secure numbers that a wide range of applications can use.
In an attempt to increase safety in general aviation aircraft, the National Institute for Aviation Research at Wichita State University is making it possible for type clubs to create their own service information sharing systems to catch and correct service and maintenance issues before they begin to impact safety.
In a new paper, University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers describe a new energy-harvesting technology that promises to dramatically reduce our dependence on batteries and instead capture the energy of human motion to power portable electronics.
The next generation of communications systems could be built with a sewing machine. To make communications devices more reliable, Ohio State University researchers are finding ways to incorporate radio antennas directly into clothing, using plastic film and metallic thread.
MTSU and the Army signed a memorandum of understanding that will create a relationship between the university's Umanned Aircraft System research efforts and the Army UAS Program Office.
Innovative new design is modeled on nervous systems, creating computers that can learn through experience, find correlations, create hypotheses and remember outcomes.
Researchers who are working to fix global positioning system (GPS) errors have devised software to take a more accurate measurement of altitude – particularly in mountainous areas.
As cloud computing becomes the next big consumer techo –trend, it’s also on the verge of revolutionizing the way research is done. Using the cloud model as inspiration, biomedical informatics scientists at The Ohio State University have created the Translational Research Informatics and Data management grid (TRIAD), a system which is helping researchers around the world access and analyze biomedical data at an unprecedented pace. Importantly, TRIAD enables researchers to anonymously match tissue samples with de-identified clinical data from medical records, maintaining the patient’s privacy rights while eliminating the time-intensive process of seeking additional approval for each individual study that does not require access to patient identifiers such as names, addresses, and medical record numbers.
With NFL training camps underway, serious football fans have turned their attention to fantasy football, and University of Iowa business professor Jeffrey Ohlmann has a new tool to help them draft the right players.
In the aftermath of most disasters recent, communication systems have been overwhelmed, leaving people without phones and Internet when they need these tools the most. Fortunately, Georgia Tech researchers have developed an innovative wireless system called LifeNet designed to help first responders communicate after disasters.
A new computer model that describes the evolution of the Internet's architecture suggests a process similar to natural evolution took place to determine which protocols survived and which ones became extinct.
Research conducted by a new member of the bioengineering faculty at the University of California, San Diego has demonstrated that a thin flexible, skin-like device, mounted with tiny electronic components, is capable of acquiring electrical signals from the brain and skeletal muscles and potentially transmitting the information wirelessly to an external computer. The development, published Aug. 12 in the journal Science, means that in the future, patients struggling with reduced motor or brain function, or research subjects, could be monitored in their natural environment outside the lab. For example, a person who struggles with epilepsy could wear the device to monitor for signs of oncoming seizures.
A radical new approach to thwarting Internet censorship would essentially turn the whole web into a proxy server, making it virtually impossible for a censoring government to block individual sites.
Your little deuce coupe, hot rod Lincoln or pink Cadillac gets a small boost of energy, as tiny sensors in your automobile can now harvest constant power from road vibration instead of replacing batteries.
A new collaborative study at the University of Virginia details for the first time a new type of catalytic site where oxidation catalysis occurs, shedding new light on the inner workings of the process.
Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have developed a glove with a special fingertip designed to improve the wearer’s sense of touch. Applying a small vibration to the side of the fingertip improves tactile sensitivity and motor performance, according to their research results.
On the 20-year anniversary of the World Wide Web, a computer scientist has published a two-page commentary in the journal Nature that calls on the international academic and business communities to take a bolder approach when designing how people find information online.
A tracking system that can significantly aid in the successful conservation of stored blood has been developed and put into use at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center.
“Brain cap” technology being developed at the University of Maryland allows users to turn their thoughts into motion. Associate Professor of Kinesiology José 'Pepe' L. Contreras-Vidal and his team have created a non-invasive, sensor-lined cap with neural interface software that could be used to control computers, robotic prosthetic limbs, motorized wheelchairs and even digital avatars. Power of UMD team's work is shown in new study findings, new grants from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and a growing list of partners.
The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, has been awarded $18 million to help create a new generation of linkages among high-performance computers and research facilities across the nation. The new supercomputing grid will create a powerful tool for taking on some of the most complex problems in science.
The bad news: Human beings are lousy at identifying deceptive reviews. The good news: Cornell researchers are developing computer software that’s pretty good at it. In 800 Chicago hotel reviews, their software was able to pick out 90 percent of deceptive reviews.
Several reports indicate that prolonged viewing of mobile devices and other stereo 3D devices leads to visual discomfort, fatigue and even headaches. According to a new Journal of Vision study, the root cause may be the demand on our eyes to focus on the screen and simultaneously adjust to the distance of the content.
Networks of intelligent robots will transform warfare, but significant hurdles in sensing, testing, and interoperability remain.
Spacecraft the size of integrated circuits could revolutionize the way we explore the solar system.
To build a quantum computer, one needs to create and precisely control individual quantum memory units, called qubits, for information processing. Olivier Pfister, a professor of physics in the University of Virginia's College of Arts & Sciences, has just published findings in the journal Physical Review Letters demonstrating a breakthrough in the creation of massive numbers of entangled qubits, more precisely a multilevel variant thereof called Qmodes.
With a pull of the trigger, cleaning up at Ithaca College is getting a whole lot more environmentally friendly. Since the start of 2011, the college’s facilities maintenance staff has been terminating germs with the Ionator.
Fuel cells are used in the space shuttle as one component of the electrical power system, so perhaps it was appropriate that a hydrogen fuel cell-powered mobile lighting system could be seen on the grounds of the Kennedy Space Center as the Space Shuttle Atlantis launched into space last week, the 135th and final mission for the NASA Space Shuttle Program.
Cornell University scientists, in collaboration with physicists and physician-scientists in Germany, France and Rochester, N.Y., have developed a new – and much less painful and potentially damaging – method to end life-threatening heart fibrillations.
A new application developed by U-M neurologist creates better understanding of the anatomy of the peripheral nervous system. This application can be used on iPhones and other personal devices.
MD Anderson experts offer tips for selecting health apps.
Smart phone users reading text messages and internet pages hold their devices at a closer distance than they would for printed text—which may have important implications for prescribing vision correction, reports a study in the July issue of Optometry and Vision Science, official journal of the American Academy of Optometry. The journal is published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, a part of Wolters Kluwer Health.
An international gathering of experts has met to discuss space-based technologies -- from Earth remote sensing spacecraft to global navigation and telecommunications satellites – as potent tools in both shaping disaster preparedness and in dealing with the chaos of responding to natural disasters.
Sandia National Laboratories has developed a new technology with the potential to dramatically alter the air-cooling landscape in computing and microelectronics, and lab officials are now seeking licensees in the electronics chip cooling field to license and commercialize the device.
Breakthroughs in nanoengineering often involve building new materials or tiny circuits. But a professor at the University of California, San Diego is proving that he can make materials and circuits so flexible that they can be pulled, pushed and contorted – even under water – and still keep functioning properly.
Joint Quantum Institute (JQI) researchers have observed the onset of a quantum phase transition to a quantum ferromagnet using a nine ion crystal, in an atom-by-atom approach to quantum simulations of magnetism.
It’s like a Brownie camera for the digital age: The microscopic device fits on the head of a pin, contains no lenses or moving parts, costs pennies to make – and this Cornell-developed camera could revolutionize an array of science from surgery to robotics.
The Department of Homeland Security(DHS)'s Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) has developed a miniaturized version of a dosimeter, a portable device used for measuring exposure to ionizing radiation, which can provide life-saving early detection in the unlikely event of a nuclear accident or dirty bomb.
When Hansel and Gretel ventured into the forest, they left a trail of breadcrumbs to find their way home. Firefighters rushing into a burning building need the equivalent.
Java's ability to run the same code on many different kinds of computers grew out of work done at the University of California, San Diego, two decades earlier.
That panicked feeling we get when the family pet goes missing is the same when we misplace our mobile phone, says a Kansas State University marketing professor. Moreover, those feelings of loss and hopelessness without our digital companion are natural.
Georgia Tech researchers have developed innovative software for active reading, an activity that involves highlighting, outlining and taking notes on a document. Taking advantage of touch-screen tablet computers, LiquidText enables active readers to interact with documents using finger motions.
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