The American Medical Association (AMA) and Elsevier, a global information analytics company specializing in science and health, have announced that they will be working together to develop eLearning course content for Current Procedural Terminology (CPT). CPT is the most widely accepted nomenclature in the U.S. that reports outpatient and office...
Indiana Regional Medical Center has just announced the start of their new surgical robotics program. The program will begin in the area of general surgery with procedures such as cholecystectomy, inguinal hernia repair, ventral hernia repair and colectomy. The daVinci XI Surgical System The daVinci XI surgical system was designed...
The University of Central Florida, in partnership with HCA Healthcare, will begin building a new teaching hospital near UCF’s College of Medicine campus in Lake Nona within the next 18 months. The hospital, which will be named UCF Lake Nona Medical Center, is expected to be open for patients by...
The University of Hawaii’s John A Burns School of Medicine is offering a 5-month long training program as an alternative track for third year medical students. So far, 39 medical students have signed up for this program. Students in this program will be working directly with members of the community...
Purdue University is working on a new affordable, self-learning device to be placed into existing MRI machines. This technology will allow medical professionals to better monitor their patients by performing concurrent medical imaging and recording for diagnostic purposes. Ranajay Mandal and Nishant Babaria, graduate research assistants in Purdue's College of...
Surgical robots are becoming a popular commodity in the healthcare industry, however, the high costs and lack of training facilities are limiting the number of robots on the hospital floors. At the Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT-M), they have created a trainer surgical robot that could help address this...
Whether or not you're a medical professional, it can be beneficial to have the skills necessary to help during a medical emergency. Thanks to a group of EMT's and paramedics, individuals can now sign up for low cost medical emergency classes at www.cprfirstaidaedcertification.com. Some of the classes offered include first...
With today’s technology, we have medical research, journals, health documents, and healthcare professionals at our fingertips. Our smartphones and tablets can hold all the information found all over the web and written out in over thousands of books. With that said, we have made our complete list of the most essential...