Allison Elliott, Our Health
“Somewhere in Kentucky, a patient checks in at the front desk of her local hospital’s memory or behavioral health clinic. The patient is concerned she may be having memory problems and, at the encouragement of family and friends, has booked an evaluation.
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David Rodríguez Carenas, Diario Médico
“La tecnología surge para cubrir necesidades, y uno de los mayores retos en nuestros tiempos es el envejecimiento de la población. Por eso una de las líneas de investigación es el desarrollo de aplicaciones que ayuden a la tercera edad, con la robótica como uno de los campos con más futuro.
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Gill Hitchcock, Guardian Professional
“Trials of a mobile version of a touch screen memory test to help GPs in the early detection of Alzheimer’s will begin this week in a primary care trust, ahead of a general launch planned for 2012.
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Dana Blankenhorn, ZDNet Healthcare
“We think of open source as being a process for developing software. It’s also a process for developing cures.
As Gina Kolata notes at The New York Times, it’s working in the area of Alzheimer’s Disease.
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eHealthNews.eu
“Technological advances have taken the medical world to a whole new level, as digital infrastructure and state-of-the-art software offer doctors and patients the right tools for diagnosis and treatment. Helping to advance the technology further is the NEUGRID (A grid-based e-infrastructure for data archiving/communication and computationally intensive applications in the medical sciences) project, which is backed with EUR 2.8 million in financial support under the ‘Information and communication technologies’ (ICT) Theme of the EU’s Seventh Framework Programme (FP7).
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Mitch Wagner, InformationWeek Healthcare Blogs
“As the Alzheimer’s spreads, healthcare companies are developing wireless technologies to help caregivers look after their charges. The technologies monitor people with Alzheimer’s to make sure they’re not in trouble, with a particular focus on making sure that patients don’t wander off.
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Karin Kloosterman, Israel21c
“Almost every family has one: An aunt, parent or grandparent with dementia or Alzheimer’s disease. The shenanigans they can get up to may make for humorous anecdotes at Sunday brunch, but their sad situation is a terribly painful story for everyone involved.
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“Computer software can diagnose Alzheimer’s disease from brain scans more reliably than clinical experts, new research published today by the journal Brain suggests.
Researchers at the Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging, University College London, were able to diagnose Alzheimer’s correctly using software that learned the difference between MRI brain scans of those with Alzheimer’s and those without the disease with accuracy as high at 96%.”
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Quin Parker, The Guardian, 22 February 2008
