Urged for tighter restrictions on cosmetic surgery

A summary of responses from patients, the public and industry has been published as part of the review set up after the PIP breast implant scandal. A final report, by Sir Bruce Keogh, the NHS medical director leading the English review, is due in March 2013. Cosmetic surgeons said procedures should not be sold as "a commodity". For more information...

Is The Traditional PC Dead?

Personal Computer makers late to the mobile game were the big losers in 2012, as CNN's Maggie Lake reports. Here is the link from CNN http://edition.cnn.com/video/?hpt=hp_c4#/video/business/2012/12/26/pkg-lake-is-the-pc-dead.cnn  ...

Increasing Time Spent With Patients And Improving Relationships : A Better Bedside Manner With iPad

Bedside care is a vital part of health care professionals' relationships with their patients at the hospital. But the staff at hospital found that modern technology sometimes made those interactions more difficult. When Apple introduced iPad, physicians at the hospital knew they'd...

Drug And Medical Information Apps For iDevices

This article describes Apps for the iPod Touch, iPhone, and iPad that may be beneficial to pharmacy education and pharmacy practice. The purpose is to provide examples of the types of Apps available through the App Store to support teaching, learning, and practice and to help you...

The iPad’s Pros And Cons In A Health Care Setting

The iPad has been popular with health care providers. This is not too surprising, as doctors, nurses and other practitioners have been using the iPad's older sibling, the iPhone, for several years, for everything from voice recording to clinical data entry. Many argue that the iPad's larger screen sets the stage for even more clinical uses. The...

Architecture of Android OS

Android uses Linux for its memory management, process management, networking, and other operating system services. The Android phone user will never see Linux or in other words our application will not make Linux calls directly. Some parts of Android will be familiar, such...

Android Devices in the Market

Android devices come in all shapes and sizes. The Android OS can be seen powering the following types of devices: Smartphones Tablets E-reader devices Netbooks MP4 players Internet TVs Chances are good that you own at least one of the preceding devices. The Samsung Galaxy...

What is Android?

Android is a free phone operating system that aims to get all kinds of phones running like computers and, most importantly, connecting to the web. It's been developed primarily by Google, though others have helped, and it's a project that's constantly updating, growing, and...

HIS : Splitting A Large and Complex System Into Simpler Sub-systems

In the development of the hospital information system would be better if done through a modularization into several sub-systems. For example, in this paper we split into the following subsystems: - Personlia - Registration of patients coming - Outpatient and / or ER - Radiology and Laboratory Examination - Inpatient - Pharmacy - Cashier Modularization...

Calculation of Inventory Through The Trigger Mechanism on The Transaction Table

This time we will discuss about the computerization of inventory in the warehouse (location) is done automatically at the time the transaction is entered into a purchase transaction table, into the sales transaction table, as well as mutations in the transaction table movement of goods between warehouses (locations). The assumption of this discussion...

Database Object Naming Standards

A naming standard is a collection of rules, which, when applied to data, results in a set of data objects named in a logical and standardized way. These names convey some information about the named objects; an element name, for example, indicates the set of possible valid values (its data domain), and its usage. Having naming standards helps to achieve...

Pharmacology Clinical Decision Support System Software

Information technology has made a significant impact on the healthcare sector. The past decade has witnessed the foray of numerous information systems and their resultant products into the hospital scenario. The number of investments in computers and types of hospital systems has increased. This is because paper medical records are cumbersome,...