2.4+Diagnostic+and+therapeutic+tools

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 * **Link** || **Description** || **Links to Other Strands** ||
 * ====[|Wii warm up for surgeons] ==== || Playing computer games such as the Nintendo Wii can improve a surgeon's performance in the operating theatre, a US study shows. || Strand 2: Surgery ||
 * Robotic Surgery || How Robotic Surgery Works: An overview of how it works, with some embedded animation clips || Strand 2: Surgery
 * UK Hospital pioneers robotic surgery || Centre pioneers robotic surgery in the UK. A recent article as an example of who is using robotic surgery || Strand 2: Surgery
 * bionic arm || A man who lost both of his arms in an accident is getting some high-tech help with an innovative artificial limb that controls movements by thought. || Strand 2: Prosthetic limbs ||
 * Pillcam || Example of technology used: PillCam Used to find the source of internal bleeding. The capsule includes a camera, chip and light. The information is then downloaded to a computer from the strap device. || Strand 2: Diagnostic technology ||
 * PACS || Hospitals do away with x-ray films and replace them with Picture Archive Communication System || Strand 2: Diagnostic technology ||
 * Phones for diagnostics || May 2008, Doctors use mobile phones to take diagnostic pictures || Strand 2: Diagnostic technology
 * Robotic Doctor || =Robot doctor gets thumbs-up from patients. Half of those surveyed prefer virtual visit by their own physician to real visit by unfamiliar doctor = || Strand 2: Patient Monitoring
 * Wireless monitoring tools || Monitoring your Health online: Enabling proactive patient care through wireless health devices and advanced analytics. || Strand 2: Patient Monitoring
 * RFID wristbands || RFID Tags to Track hospital patients Hospital patients are used to wearing wristbands. But now those bands have gone high-tech. || Strand 2: Patient Monitoring ||
 * PenFriend || PenFriend. New Audio tags to provide information for blind people. The visually impaired can create their own audio tags || Strand 2: IT solutions for disabled people, accessibility ||
 * Text for Visually impaired || <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Mobile Phone reads text to the blind || Strand 2: <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">IT solutions for disabled people, accessibility
 * SiSi || <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">2007, Technology that translates the written word to British Sign Language (BSL). SiSi (say it sign it) uses speech recognition to animate an aviator. Will allow for automatic signing e.g. for meetings, TV programs. || Strand 2: <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">IT solutions for disabled people, accessibility ||
 * Note: || For all diagnostic tools in health, students can consider the following social impacts and considerations: || Strand 1: Reliability, Integrity, security, Privacy & Anonymity, Digital Divide & Equality of Access, Policies & People & Machines ||

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 * Apple - Making a difference. One app at a time. || media type="youtube" key="PGtP6ZQ6Lt8" width="560" height="315" ||
 * Da Vinci Robotic System ..................................... || <span style="border-collapse: separate; color: #333333; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal; line-height: 115%;">Watch this video showing how the da Vinci Robotic Surgical System allows doctors to perform bypass surgery without opening the chest cavity and using only four incisions in the chest. Doctors are now able to perform a totally endoscopic robotic bypass procedure.
 * Da Vinci Introduction || media type="youtube" key="0NZLpWrJGgk" height="344" width="425" align="center" ||
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Prosthetic devices || <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"> <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">A new surgical technique, developed by scientists at the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago, allows patients who have lost arms to use residual nerve signals to control a prosthetic limb. This video shows three patients testing a prototype limb being developed by DARPA. The patients can perform complex tasks, including picking up a cup, grasping a cracker without breaking it, and putting a spoon in a cup. [] ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Brain-computer interfaces || media type="youtube" key="I7lmJe_EXEU" height="344" width="425" align="center" ||
 * PACS || <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Hospitals do away with x-ray films and replace them with Picture Archive Communication System [] (cannot embed – has been disabled) ||
 * Patient Monitoring || <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Monitoring of patients in the home. Visit the website to download the video clip [] ||
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">PenFriend || media type="youtube" key="ePE0-U73Ajc" height="340" width="560" align="center" ||
 * <span class="wiki_link_ext">[|Anders Ynnerman: Visualizing the Medical Data Explosion] || media type="custom" key="8525842" align="center" ||  ||
 * "Legendary film critic [|Roger Ebert] recruited some of his friends to speak for him: Dr. Dean Ornish, John Hunter, and his wife Chaz. 'Computer voices are not very sophisticated, but with my computer I can communicate more widely than ever before.' " [|TED2011] || Photos on[| Flickr]from the event. Video will be posted as soon as it is available. ||  ||
 * [|Born to be Viral: Watch a surgical robot peel a grape]
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