Justice Sandra Day O'Connor give us her solution and suggestions to a better health care system...good reading...BD
BIG NUMBERS, like 45 million uninsured Americans, are hard to grasp. But that number came home to me at a recent conference. The keynote speaker was former Supreme Court justice Sandra Day O'Connor. Her topic was our healthcare system, and her message was personal and anguished.
As I listened, a light dawned: O'Connor and the rest of us with health coverage are also uninsured. We too face terrible, albeit more remote, healthcare risks -- the risk that our employer will drop our plan, that Medicare will go bust, that our plan won't cover our needs, that premiums will eat us alive, that our doctor will stop taking our insurance, that long-term care will wipe us out, and that our uninsured friends and family members will need major financial help.
Why can't a country as rich as ours come up with a system that works? This, in essence, was Justice O'Connor's parting question.
But, in fact, we can. Now if we can just get the big cheeses in the Oval Office or on their way there to start thinking big . .
obstruction by entering text, navigating maps and clicking links from the back. Beginning with a commercial touchscreen, the researchers at Microsoft bolted a multi-input touchpad to the back and then fitted a webcam on a boom to record the motion of the user's fingers. This video is then fed into software running on the PC which filters out everything except the fingers, adds pointers to the fingertips so that users can select items precisely on screen and then feeds it back to the display.
mechanical pressure. The result is evaporation cooling to cool the body. The COOLINE vest does not cover the kidney area for medical reasons. The functional fibers of the high tech fleece are convenient to wear and are absolutely dry on the outside. They cool down the area of the cardiovascular system on the upper body mostly affected by thermal stress. The COOLINE system is designed for professional use. The climatic cabinet COOLBOXX® provides fully automatic activation and control and ensures that the COOLINE vests are ready for use 24 hours a day. Just Stay Cool Irrespective of the environmental temperature you keep cool and therefore have better conditions for health, concentration and performance. As a result of the physical principle of evaporation cooling, COOLINE cools more intensively at higher temperatures and less intensively at low temperatures. This produces optimal cooling at all times. COOLINE also absorbs the body's own perspiration, thereby also promoting the body's own cooling system. Dependent on the ambient temperature, the cooling effect is maintained for hours up to several days and is therefore suitable for any period of work and deployment.
here for help. But now there's a new tool that California and local officials will have in the next disaster: three full-service mobile hospitals that each have 200 beds and can be rapidly deployed wherever needed in the state. Los Angeles County has also purchased a 100-bed mobile hospital, which is expected to be delivered this week. The public got its first peek Saturday at one of the facilities that was sprawled on a grassy area the size of a football field at the California National Guard's Joint Forces Training Base in Los Alamitos. 
The portable facility consists of 30 blue-and-orange vinyl tents, draped over arched aluminum frames. The tents can be attached, like an adult-sized hamster tube. Inside was everything you'd find in a community hospital: fully equipped emergency and operating rooms, a trauma unit, a pharmacy, oxygen generators and even a tent where doctors can take X-rays and see them on a computer screen.
coverage in Atlanta for weeks. The hospital faces a $125 million shortfall that could force it to shut its doors by the end of the year. Now the fight for Grady has made it to the big screen. It's not a glitzy Hollywood premiere, but for the few dozen people who filed into an auditorium at Emory University, the preview means more than anything coming out of Hollywood ever will. It's called "Save Grady.
establishing the Vitek Institute for Robotic Surgery at Mission Hospital the first of its kind in south Orange County. The once futuristic technology, known as the da Vinci Surgical System after Leonardo da Vinci, was unveiled at the hospital this week and should be available by the end of the year.
power "instrumentation amplifiers," which creates an apparatus that can communicate wirelessly with your Windows Mobile-based handset (and PC, too). The device is rigged up to record ECG (heart rhythms), EMG (muscle tension), GSR (skin resistance), body temperature and movement information, and while we could certainly attempt to transcribe the creator, why not take a look at the informative video posted after the jump for all the data you could ever desire about this (admittedly fresh) invention. 
manipulated on computer. The device, made by ARANZ Medical, is one of the finalists in the annual Health Innovation Awards, along with four other initiatives by the Canterbury District Health Board (CDHB). ARANZ Medical chief executive Bruce Davey said the device was being used to map the changing nature of serious wounds. It calculated the wound area and depth, and stored all information on its palm-sized computer, Davey said. 
well for me. The Blue tooth software that comes with the unit does a great job and I can use a hardware button to turn Blue tooth off and on as needed.