OBJECTIVE In early 2010, Harvard Medical School and Boston Children's Hospital began an interoperability project with the distinctive goal of developing a platform to enable medical applications to be written once and run unmodified across different healthcare IT systems. The project was called Substitutable Medical Applications and Reusable Technologies (SMART). METHODS We adopted contempora...

Skin cancer is the most common cancer in humans and Australia (particularly in Queensland) has the highest incidence globally. Sunlight is a known skin carcinogen and reflects off water, exacerbating the risk of sunburn. In 1988, the "SunSmart Program" was developed to promote sun-protection to Australian children. Within a decade, it evolved to include a voluntary national accreditation progra...

LONG) Background. Different Digital Volume Correlation (DVC) approaches are currently available or under development for bone tissue micromechanics. The aim of this study was to compare accuracy and precision errors of three DVC approaches for a particular 3D zero-strain condition. Method of approach. Trabecular and cortical bone specimens were repeatedly scanned with a micro-CT. The errors aff...

BACKGROUND This study implemented and evaluated a point-of-care, wireless Internet access using smart phones for information retrieval during daily clinical rounds and academic activities of internal medicine residents in a community hospital. We did the project to assess the feasibility of using smart phones as an alternative to reach online medical resources because we were unable to find pre...

The combined benefits of smart card to support mobility in a pocket coupled with the ubiquitous access of Web technology, present a new paradigm for medical information access systems. The paper describes the framework of Java Card Web Servlet (JCWS) that is being developed to provide seamless access interface between a Web browser and a Java-enabled smart card. Importantly, the smart card is v...

background a doctor’s competence and professionalism is often judged on the basis of attire. our lady of lourdes (olol) is a leading irish hospital in the implementation of bare below the elbows (bbte) policy, however surgical attire is not standardised and there is great variability in attire worn on wards. we aimed to evaluate patients attitude towards surgeons attire in olol.   methods a pro...

Lecture: As most people expect, the COVID-19 pandemic will change our life radically. One of directions is expected to minimize off-line contacts in daily lives and healthcare surely not exception. Big hospitals, which are centralized systems evolved deliver effectively, can become media spread diseases some cases adoption a decentralized system be helpful strategy prevent it. This implemented ...