Technology

January 4, 2013

Mayo Clinic Spinoff Gets Approval to Sell Heart Device

By Logan Lafferty

NeoChord Inc., a Mayo Clinic spin-off that makes technology for repairing heart valves, has received regulatory approval to sell its device in Europe. The Eden Prairie-based company will begin selling the device in Europe this month, NeoChord CEO John Seaberg said in an interview. The company makes artificial heart “strings” and an accompanying device that treat mitral valve regurgitation, […]

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Tags: artificial heart strings, heart valve, John Seaberg, mitral valve regurgitation, Mpls St. Paul Business Journal, NeoChord Inc., repair


October 18, 2012

Tool Reveals Myeloproliferative Neoplasm Patient Burden

By Kelley Luckstein

Researchers have devised a tool to accurately assess the extent of symptoms in patients with myeloproliferative neoplasms (MPNs). The MPN Symptom Assessment Form total symptom score (MPN-SAF TSS) is an efficient, sensitive, and reliable method for symptom assessment in patients with essential thrombocythemia (ET), polycythemia vera (PV), or myelofibrosis, say Ruben Mesa (Mayo Clinic, Scottsdale, […]

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Tags: Dr. Ruben Mesa, Journal of Clinical Oncology, MPN Symptom Assessment Form, MPNs, myeloproliferative neoplasms, News Medical


October 12, 2012

Mayo Clinic in the News Weekly Highlights

By Karl Oestreich

Mayo Clinic in the News is a weekly highlights summary of major media coverage. If you would like to be added to the weekly distribution list, send a note to Emily Blahnik with this subject line: SUBSCRIBE to Mayo Clinic in the News. Thank you. Karl Oestreich, manager enterprise media relation NY Times The Ups […]

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Tags: alzheimers, American Society for Preventive Cardiology, arthritis, Arthritis Today, Bismarck Tribune, Cardiology, Cora Kanow Professor of Alzheimer’s Disease Research at Mayo Clinic, Doctor Radio, Dr. Dawn Milliner, Dr. Eric Matteson, Dr. Ronald Petersen, Dr. Stephen Kopecky


October 11, 2012

Smartphones Are Suitable for Mobile Telemedicine

By Kelley Luckstein

An evaluation of the use of smartphones to remotely review CT scans of the brains of stroke patients has found that they perform as well as desktop systems. The study, the first to test the effectiveness of smartphone teleradiology applications in a telestroke network, has been published in the journal Stroke [1]. The Mayo Clinic […]

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Tags: British Journal of Healthcare Computing, iPhone app, Smartphones, stroke, teleradiology, telestroke network


October 8, 2012

Mayo Medical Laboratories Launches Mobile Test Catalog and Reference Apps

By Kelley Luckstein

Mayo Medical Laboratories is introducing two comprehensive mobile applications for iPhones and iPads, allowing physicians and pathologists unparalleled access to clinical laboratory expertise from Mayo Clinic … “Mayo Clinic has always put the needs of patients first, and the mobile test catalog and reference apps were developed to provide physicians the information they need to […]

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Tags: Dr. Franklin Cockerill, iPhone app, Mayo Medical Laboratories, mobile test catalog, News Medical, reference app


October 4, 2012

Smartphones Deemed Kosher for Telemedicine, Says Mayo Study

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Smartphones in telemedicine have more than a few things right, according to a new Mayo Clinic study that highlights both their efficacy and quality in capturing medical images to evaluate stroke patients. The study, published in the Sept. issue of Stroke, a journal of the American Heart Association, is the first to test the effectiveness […]

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Tags: american heart association, Dr Bart Demaerschalk, Healthcare IT News, Smartphones, stroke, Telemedicine, teleradiology


October 3, 2012

Smartphone Evaluation an Effective Tool for Telestroke Network

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Medical images viewed on smartphones can be effectively used to remotely evaluate stroke patients through telemedicine, according to a study published online ahead of print in Stroke. The study, from researchers at the Mayo Clinic in Phoenix, was the first to test the effectiveness of smartphone teleradiology applications in a real-world telestroke network. “Smartphones are […]

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Tags: Dr Bart Demaerschalk, HealthImaging, Smartphones, Telemedicine, teleradiology applications


September 5, 2012

Eating Right Between Meetings

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Katherine Zeratsky, a registered dietitian at the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota, says she works with patients who use services like MyFitnessPal to help them eat healthfully when they travel. But not all apps have the same ease of use, features or science backing them up, Ms. Zeratsky said. “It’s caveat emptor, the buyer needs to […]

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Tags: diet, iPhone app, Katherine Zeratsky, MyFitnessPal, NY Times


July 20, 2012

How Microsoft Kinect Has Inspired ‘The Surgeon’s GPS’

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Blood-spattered surgeons intent on maintaining operating theatre sterility can hardly be expected to drop everything, strip off their gloves and type madly on a PC to dig up urgent patient data… A technology developed for one of the world’s most popular video game consoles is already helping to make that a reality, as programmers “hack” […]

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Tags: Financial Post, Jamie Tremaine, Kinect, microsoft, Xbox 360


July 16, 2012

Bartow Regional First in Polk With Robot-Assisted Knee Resurfacing

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Orthopedic surgeons at Bartow Regional Medical Center are getting a helping hand from a robotic arm… Bartow Regional is the first hospital in Polk County with the MAKOplasty system, in which the surgeon uses 3-D modeling, computer assistance and the robotic arm to resurface damaged sections of the knee…Orthopedic surgeons at Mayo Clinic Jacksonville have […]

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Tags: 3-D modeling, Bartow Regional Medical Center, Dr. Cedric Ortiguera, MAKOplasty, robotic arm, The Ledger


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