Simple Admit tries to make those pre-op screenings a little easier
You don't have to know the answer to every question. And a little cartoon dog named Sam will pop up to let you know if you messed something up.If this sounds a little better than sitting on the phone...
View ArticleInnovateUpstate Podcast
In this edition: Using your mobile phone to track disease 'hot spots', how residents of Watertown in the state's North Country are dealing with what they say is the legacy of their community's...
View ArticleCollaborative research aims to slow onset of Alzheimer's disease
As part of its research into Alzheimer’s disease The University of Rochester Medical Center is piloting the use of electronic medical records. The University is helping to create an electronic data...
View ArticleStartup uses sensors to find cause of knee pain
Tim Cortesi is a software engineer at a Downtown Binghamton company called Sonostics. At the company's offices in Binghamton's startup incubator, he sticks four small patches attached to wires onto the...
View ArticleWearable tech full of potential for health care applications
It’s exactly what it sounds like. ‘Wearable technology’ involves sensors that are worn in something like a bracelet, that gather information and send the data to a computer via bluetooth.This...
View ArticleMobile app prototype targets readmission rates, aims to lower ER and...
A new mobile app is expected to help improve the quality of patient care across the nation. A team of University at Buffalo students have created it to help reduce hospital readmission rates.Currently...
View Article3-D printing enables customized cardio-vascular diagnosis
Abdominal aortic aneurysms are one of the top ten causes of death in men over the age of 55, and upstate New York has higher rates of this condition than the rest of the country.Researchers are now...
View ArticleHealth practitioners swap health care for art and music
Story begins at 19:38The O+ Festival, is an annual celebration featuring visual and performing artists from all over the world.But the main attraction isn’t the marquee names of bands on stage or the...
View ArticleOne big health care challenge, and two days to solve it
The engineering and design students on stage presenting their concept have been working on this prototype for a grand total of two days. The whirlwind workshop, requires student teams to...
View ArticleWATCH: Professional tinkerer helps boost Rochester dental revenue
Gary McHale of Buffalo is one of two Dental Fix RX franchisees in Western New York. McHale rides around from dentist to dentist in a state-of-the-art white van, making daily stops in Rochester, and...
View ArticleReporting focus: innovation in health care
The health care sector in upstate New York is undergoing some rapid transformations, and in areas like telemedicine and e-records setting the pace for much of the nation. Innovation Trail reporters...
View ArticleUAlbany expands research into RNA
Most of us know all about DNA, the genetic building blocks that make us unique. But in recent years, there’s a lot of interest in RNA— a molecule that controls how our genes are expressed. It has...
View ArticleInformation technology improves health care in the North Country
While lots of industries turned to information technology long ago to improve efficiency, accuracy and collaboration, until now, health care has lagged behind. Now, a big project has aimed to leverage...
View ArticleA hospital invests not only in new buildings, but a neighborhood
Construction cranes poke above the already looming structure of St. Joseph's Hospital on the north side of Syracuse. Women in hospital scrubs and men in reflective vests and hard hats walk past, but...
View ArticleCan a warmer office make us healthier?
At Cornell University’s Ergonomics Center, Professor Alan Hedge demonstrates new designs for a computer mouse. One looks like an old-fashioned desktop penholder. There’s one that looks like the...
View ArticleIn the Adirondacks, a new model of primary care
On a Monday afternoon in December the Moreau Family Health Center, just south of Glens Falls, is packed. The doctor’s seeing patients back-to-back—and so is care coordinator Jessica Casey. Just as...
View ArticleCould a mobile app beat the flu?
Imagine using your smart phone to avoid getting the flu. A new mobile app designed by researchers at the University of Rochester could make it possible.
View ArticleSimple Admit tries to make those pre-op screenings a little easier
You don't have to know the answer to every question. And a little cartoon dog named Sam will pop up to let you know if you messed something up. If this sounds a little better than sitting on the phone...
View ArticleInnovateUpstate Podcast
In this edition: Using your mobile phone to track disease 'hot spots', how residents of Watertown in the state's North Country are dealing with what they say is the legacy of their community's...
View ArticleCollaborative research aims to slow onset of Alzheimer's disease
As part of its research into Alzheimer’s disease The University of Rochester Medical Center is piloting the use of electronic medical records. The University is helping to create an electronic data...
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