To boost efficiency, hospitals borrow principles from factory floor
...nt challenge in the medical profession, industrial engineers can assist hospitals in improving their efficiency with detailed statistical analysis that identifies the root cause of many problems," he said. While Lin characterized the collection and review of such data as "very delicate," he said it serv...Northwestern Memorial researchers release study on smart-pump technology
...m consisting of nurses, pharmacists and biomedical engineers at Northwestern Memorial Hospital recently published a study showing that while "smart pumps" are a necessary component to a safe medication system, they won't generate meaningful improvements in patient safety until they are interfaced with other sy...Watching metals melt, nanometer-scale views inside cells
...rmal tissue in 18patients. Developed by a team of engineers and surgeons atCedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles and the University ofSouthern California, the system makes use of a technique called"time-resolved laser-induced fluorescence spectroscopy" (TR-LIFS).Using this process, surgeons take a fiber ...Duke engineers develop new 3-D cardiac imaging probe
DURHAM, N.C. -- Biomedical engineers at Duke University's Pratt School of Engineering have created a new three-dimensional ultrasound cardiac imaging probe. Inserted inside the esophagus, the probe creates a picture of the whole heart in the time it takes for current ultrasound technolo...New technology can boost bottom lines for US hospitals
...+ TM ", is the latest offering from the healthcare engineers at Baltimore-based Salar, Inc. ( www.Salarinc.com ). Salar develops products that improve healthcare quality through secure, paperless transactions and electronic medical records. Deployment at UPMC Executives at UPMC have announced they are implem...Students revamp tractor for use by workers with disabilities
... and hand-operated driving controls, undergraduate engineers at Johns Hopkins have transformed a tractor to allow people with disabilities to help maintain the grounds of a southern Maryland state park. The project resulted from a request from Donnie Hammett, ranger and manager of the 596-acre Greenwell State ...OAK RIDGE, Tenn., June 30, 2005 Researchers and engineers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory have won three R&D 100 Awards, presented each year by R&D Magazine in recognition of the year's most significant technological innovations. With these three awards, ORNL's national lab-leadi...A giant step toward tiny functional nanowires
... controlling those gaps would allow scientists and engineers to design with precision devices ranging from tiny integrated circuits to gene chips and protein arrays for diagnostics and drug discovery. "With miniaturization happening across so many fields, our existing tools -- our chisels of a sort -- can't c...Ability, not disability, at heart of yacht trek
...with Disabilities. The program matches collegiate engineers with individuals in their community who are in need of assistive devices that either do not exist or are prohibitively expensive. "The primary goal of the senior design projects activity," says NSF program director Gilbert Devey, "is to aid a specif...Every second counts for shaken babies
...he University of Queensland research team of civil engineers and a child health expert is working on a numerical model that will tell when a baby's brain could be damaged by violent shaking. Shaking can cause Shaken Baby Syndrome which swells a baby's brain and triggers internal bleeding. Shaken Baby Syndrom...'Heroes of Chemistry' honored for improving health, environment
...y the ACS, honors industrial chemists and chemical engineers who create commercially successful products that improve the quality of life. The keynote speaker for the 2005 Heroes awards program is Tom Peters, international bestselling author, consultant, columnist and stage performer, who is credited with he...Rensselaer researchers awarded NSF grant to study nano springs, rods, beams
...f physicists, materials scientists, and mechanical engineers to address all of these issues. "This is one more example of the wide array of interdisciplinary research being conducted at Rensselaer," says Omkaram "Om" Nalamasu, vice president for research at Rensselaer. "Collaborative work like this will help o...MRI pioneer wins national physics prize
...on of a host of technical problems. Scientists and engineers in the GE Corporate R&D group and others at GE Medical Systems in Milwaukee, WI made rapid progress and the first 1.5-T product was available less than two years later. During this period and later, Edelstein led or was a key part of physics-related ...Optical imaging added to ultrasound improves breast cancer diagnosis
... benign group. To perform the dual imaging exam, engineers in Dr. Zhu's lab added NIR sensors to an ultrasound transducer, creating a hand-held probe capable of acquiring both ultrasound images and light waves. The collected images and optical data were then processed using a computer algorithm. "The combin...Launch milestone achieved: Last-ever look at CryoSat
...ully closed. This was time for the ESA and Astrium engineers at the Plesetsk Cosmodrome to take a step back and...Rockot launcher. Once locked to the launcher, the engineers will verify that contact with the satellite can be established and start charging the battery. Addit...Northwestern receives major award for nanotechnology cancer center
...inary teams of nano-scientists, cancer biologists, engineers and clinicians who will work collaboratively to de...new effort will build a bridge between scientists, engineers and clinicians -- all focused on advancing the application of nanotechnology for the diagnosis, earl...Biomedical engineer shows how people learn motor skills
...g to chess playing to public speaking. Biomedical engineers at Washington University in St. Louis have now identified how people use individual experiences to improve performance. Kurt Thoroughman, Ph.D., Washington University assistant professor of biomedical engineering, and Jordan Taylor, Washington Univer...Researchers find multiple proteins that stick to medical devices
Biomedical engineers at Washington University in St. Louis have found a new role for the blood protein serum amyloid P in the body's response to medical materials, which may help to explain a variety of problems associated with heart-lung bypass, hemodialysis and the use...Virginia Tech football player uses prototype cast
...tructure. Among the suggestions considered by the engineers was a uniaxial polypropylene/carbon fiber composite sheeting made by the Fillauer Company of Chattanooga, Tenn. Since it was made from the same matrix as previously used bracing materials in medicine, the biomedical community was already familiar wit...Duke engineers developing ultrasound devices combining 3-D imaging with therapeutic heating
DURHAM, N.C.-- Duke University engineers are developing technology that may enable physicia... a very gross guidance," he added. Duke biomedical engineers previously pioneered techniques rendering the kind of soft tissue internal images that enable fetuse...