Epic E.H.R Systems
Epic E.H.R Systems What is it? Epic E.H.R systems are electronic health records systems that are software After the HITECH act was passed, Epic was one of the major companies that took bold steps to design, build and customized electronic healthcare management systems...BlueStar Diabetes Management System
BlueStar Diabetes Management System What is it? WellDoc’s BlueStar Diabetes Management System (BlueStar DMS) is one of WellDoc’s interactive management programs on a mobile platform which supports and manages chronic type 2 diabetes. WellDoc also provides mobile based...BioSense 2.0.
BioSense 2.0. What is it? CDC’s BioSense Surveillance System is an integrated program for the early detection and rapid response of bioterrorism related diseases and infections. This program allows for state and local health departments that allows them to report in a...Google Health™
Google Health™ What is it? Google Health is (actually was) a personal health information centralization service (commonly referred to as a personal health record service) which was provided by Google Inc., from 2008 to 2011. Google Health looked like a search engine...Framing The Complexity Of Hit Systems Design
Framing The Complexity Of Hit Systems Design HIT Systems are complex in so many ways. Besides the fact that they have multiple users, implementation environments, moving parts, standards etc., etc. they need to talk to each other, prevent medical errors, and be...Complex Hit System
Complex Hit System A complex HIT system is one that involves multiple stakeholders especially end users whose environments cannot be easily anticipated, and seeks to integrate multiple functioning technologies to solve intrinsically complex system tasks and issues in...Health Information Exchanges
Health Information Exchanges Most people today have a primary care doctor and then periodically visit specialists, labs, and a handful of other health care providers. Going along with the above paradigm, each health care provider that a patient visits would then...Health Information Systems
Health Information Systems Most of the current health system is reactive; a person seeks out medical help, whether at a local hospital, doctor’s office, or clinic. Each individual health provider, if they implement electronic medical records, will contain their own...Personal Health Records and Patient Portals
Personal Health Records and Patient Portals Personal Health Records (PHR) and Patient Portals are two separate and distinct entities that are often confused for the same thing. A personal health record is a tool that allows a patient to keep track of their medical...Professional Tongue Visualization for MRI
Professional Tongue Visualization for MRI Professional level work for tongue motion has involved many different technologies to observe the tongue, due to the fact it is difficult to observe in the oral cavity. In order to fully understand speech sound articulation...Professional Full Body Motion Capture and Audio Pronunciation without Visual Motion Feedback
Professional Full Body Motion Capture Professional motion capture systems such as Vicon’s systems offer precisions “down to 0.5 mm of translation and 0.5 degrees of rotation” but to create a system with this level of accuracy it requires a large acting space and...Video Games Fitness and Health
Video Games Fitness and Health Since the early 2000’s video game developers have begun integrating cameras and other tracking peripherals to try to make a more immersive experience. For example the entire Nintendo Wii system was based around a Wii Remote controller...Image Guided Radiation Therapy
Introduction Radiation therapy utilizes ionizing radiation with the goal of curing or palliating disease and minimizing damage to healthy tissue. Localization using Image Guided Radiation Therapy (IGRT) is performed in order to ensure tumor location and minimize...standardized uptake values (SUV)
standardized uptake values (SUV) Positron emission tomography (PET) has become a widely utilized functional imaging modality. The combination of x-ray computed tomography (CT) with PET gives both structural and functional information from a single two part scan as...Compressed Sensing
Compressed Sensing Compressed Sensing (CS) is a way to reconstruct an image using fewer acquisition points. Often times in MRI, acquired signals are repeated. In theory a few selected points in MRI can be sampled and the rest can be estimated to cut the scan time...K-space
K-space The main purpose of k-space is to maintain the data acquired during a scan prior to processing the image. In the clinical world, k-space is one level in the creation of the image. It is not seen or stored in regular scans. In the research world often you have...Fourier Transform
Fourier Transform Fourier transform is an integral transform that in this case transforms a time function and expresses it as a function of frequency. An inverse Fourier transform represents the frequency function in time. The concept of Fourier transform becomes...Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)
Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) MRI stands for magnetic resonance imaging. The detected signal in MRI is obtained from the protons, most often the hydrogen protons, in the various tissues within the body. These protons create a net magnetization when they are...Examination of footwear impression evidence
Examination of footwear impression evidence The production and appearance of the impressions is controlled by a number of variables including physical factors such as the amount of pressure applied while creating the impressions, the structure of the foot and presence...Collection and enhancement of footwear impression evidence
Collection and enhancement of footwear impression evidence Impression evidence is generally transient in nature and hence adequate steps must be taken to ensure efficient collection, documentation and preservation of this evidence. Photographing the impression at the...The healing of bone grafts
The healing of bone grafts Bone is a unique connective tissue in that it heals and remodels by cellular regeneration rather than scar formation. This cellular regeneration makes the nonvascularized bone grafts possible. The immature mesenchymal stem cells can...Bone reconstruction options for the Mandible
Bone reconstruction options for the Mandible Reconstruction of the lower jaw avoids severe functional and esthetic debilitation. The ideal reconstruction should re-establish oral continuity, allow for dental rehabilitation, restore sensation of the lower lip, restore...Anatomy and physiology of the Mandible
Anatomy and physiology of the Mandible The lower jaw (mandible) consists of a horseshoe-shaped segment harboring the alveolar segment that supports the dentition. It connects posteriorly with two vertical rami, which articulate with the temporal bones via round...Advantages of LARC
Advantages of Long-acting reversible contraceptives(LARC) Overall, LARC methods are seen as the preferred contraceptive for the adolescent population by providers, but are not yet the method of choice among patients. Providers and patients agree that the...Types of Long-acting reversible contraceptives
Types of Long-acting reversible contraceptives The Implant “the implant”, is a 4 cm long cylindrical implant that is placed under the skin of the upper arm providing a continuous release of etonogestrel 68mg for three years (Merck, 2011). The failure rate is extremely...Adolescent Primary Care Utilization
Adolescent Primary Care Utilization Overall, 16-20% of adolescent girls lack access to primary care and are more likely to report no regular source of health care as compared to children (McKee & Fletcher, 2006; Schoen, Davis, & Scott Collins, 1997; Burns...Adolescent Contraception
Adolescent Contraception General Use Overall, American adolescent female contraception usage has improved from 79.9% in 1988 to 85.6% today (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 2011). The overall rate is comparable with available data for Canada,...Adolescent Pregnancy
Adolescent Pregnancy The United States unintended pregnancy rate is 147 per 1,000 in sexually active women 15-17 years of age and 162 per 1,000 in sexually active women aged 18-19, significantly higher than in similarly developed nations (Finer, 2010; Singh &...Adolescent Sexual Behavior
Adolescent Sexual Behavior In the U.S., the average age at first intercourse for women is 17.1 years with 27% of 15-17 year-old females and 62.7% of 18-19 year-old females reporting they have ever had intercourse (CDC, 2013). Rates of adolescent sexual intercourse are...Overview of Endothelin-1 and Endothelin Receptor Antagonists (ERA)
Overview of Endothelin-1 and Endothelin Receptor Antagonists (ERA) Preclinical and clinical evidence indicate that aldosterone and endothelin-1 (ET-1) may interact and hyperaldosteronism is often associated with elevated ET-1 levels. ET-1 is a 21-amino acid peptide...Hypertension and HFpEF
Hypertension and HFpEF HFpEF is a complex disease often presenting with multisystem involvement characteristics including skeletal muscle and vascular dysfunction, pulmonary hypertension, renal failure, anemia, and atrial fibrillation. (Maeder and Kaye 2009) The...The Obesity Paradox
The Obesity Paradox It has been widely interpreted that obesity exerts major deleterious effects on our body and it is the cause of numerous illnesses such as metabolic syndrome and cardiovascular diseases. However, there exist evidence that lead to the “obesity...Obesity and Heart Failure
Obesity and Heart Failure Obesity is defined as abnormal or excessive fat accumulation that presents a risk to health. (Carbone 2013) Currently, obesity is defined based on the Body Mass Index (BMI), which relates height to weight. A BMI greater than or equal to 30...Neurobiology of Migraine: Hypothalamic Descending Modulation of Trigeminovascular Pain
Hypothalamic Descending Modulation of Trigeminovascular Pain The hypothalamus has been implicated in various facets of migraine. Hypothalamic activation was observed during spontaneous migraine attacks in a study using PET scans of migraine sufferers (Denuelle et al.,...Neurobiology of Migraine: Central Descending Modulation of Trigeminovascular Pain
Central Descending Modulation of Trigeminovascular Pain Trigeminal nociception may be modulated internally, beginning in the cortex like most pain relay networks in the CNS (Noseda & Burstein, 2013). Cortical dysexcitability, fluctuations in cortical excitability,...Neurobiology of Migraine: Neural Mechanisms behind Migraine Photophobia
Neural Mechanisms behind Migraine Photophobia Photophobia specifies light-induced neurological symptoms including exacerbation of headache, hypersensitivity to light, and ocular discomfort/pain (photo-oculodynia) (Noseda & Burstein, 2013). Thus, ambient light...Neurobiology of Migraine: CSD & Migraine with Aura
CSD & Migraine with Aura In about a third of migraine patients, focal neurological disturbances known as auras are experienced as visual, motor, or sensory symptoms. Many studies have established aura in humans is analogous to CSD of Leão in other animals (Charles...Neurobiology of Migraine: Peripheral and Central Sensitization
Peripheral and Central Sensitization Clinical and animal studies provide indirect evidence that the abundance of inflammatory mediators released during migraine have the ability to maintain activation and sensitization of peripheral and central trigeminovascular (TGV)...Neurobiology of Migraine: Trigeminovascular Anatomical Pain Pathway
Trigeminovascular Anatomical Pain Pathway Although precedence of either vascular or neuronal components have not been determined from clinical and experimental studies, the trigeminal system has been implicated in the generation of migraine pain (Tajti, 2012). Pain...
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