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Nationwide cyberattack brings down Irish hospital IT and radiology systems

The attack has led the country to shut down its five radiology centers

Congress introduces federal nurse-to-patient staffing ratio bill

Aims at helping RNs successfully care for a safe number of patients at a time

Acquisitions driving up Medicare spending on hospital-based imaging: study

Sent spending up $40 million over a four-year period

Hospital-employed physicians more likely to prescribe inappropriate MR scans

Study points to pressure by healthcare systems to make more revenue

With AI, researchers teach robots to stay out of the way in busy ERs

Allows them to support emergency workflow without causing disruptions

GE gets FDA nod for AIR Recon DL on 7T MR scanner

Enabling faster scans with sharper, less noisy images

Patient monitors evolve during pandemic

A look around at the latest solutions entering the market, and how COVID-19 has impacted their evolution

CMS warns hospitals they must disclose prices of care to consumers

Around two-thirds of the largest U.S. providers have not complied with the hospital price transparency final rule

Walmart to acquire telehealth provider MeMD

Will offer customers nationwide access to virtual urgent, behavioral and primary care

Three unrecommended preventive services cost Medicare $325 million annually

Researchers examine seven patient-specific services graded D by USPSTF

This Month in Medical History

John Hunter: The pioneering surgeon that inspired Dr. Dolittle

October 07, 2011

This Month in Medical History looks at the father of modern surgery.

John Hunter: The pioneering surgeon that inspired Dr. Dolittle

October 07, 2011

This Month in Medical History looks at the father of modern surgery.

This Month in Medical History: The "American Nobel" of ophthalmology is born

June 20, 2011

For his time, Dr. Arnall Patz was considered a radical but his experiments preserved the sight of numerous infants.

Big Tobacco gets snuffed out

April 04, 2011

This Month in Medical History looks at Nixon's tobacco-fighting legacy.

This Month in Medical History: AIDS test made commercially available

March 25, 2011

The AIDS test became commercially available in March of 1985.

Alaska's Pony Express

February 10, 2011

Nearly a century ago, dog teams and their mushers undertook a race for the cure.

This Month in Medical History: the second generation of radioactivity

January 10, 2011

This month in 1934, Marie Curie's daughter discovered artificial radioactivity.

This Month in Medical History: simple tools paired with a brilliant mind

December 24, 2010

This month we celebrate the birthday of Robert Koch. Koch was born in Clausthal, Germany on December 11, 1843. Koch's Postulates, criteria used to establish a causal relationship linking a suspect microbe to a disease are still used today.

This Month in Medical History: Mending a broken heart

December 23, 2010

The chronicles of the first successful heart surgery.

Medical Museum

November 30, 2010

This Month in Medical History: Matters of the heart

November 15, 2010

A doctor tackles "blue baby" syndrome in this edition of This Month in Medical History.

Van Helsing's nemesis wasn't so impressive

October 08, 2010

This Month in Medical History, a Scottish scientist discovers a bloodsucker's role in disease.

This Month in Medical History: The human being is gone, but the mystery remains

August 05, 2010

"The Elephant Man" remains an enigma.

This Month in Medical History - July: The Plural of Sheep

July 08, 2010

For anyone who has ever had a meal so delicious that it's been dreamed about ever since with the realization it could never be created exactly again, there's hope.

This month in medical history - June: the chef's special

June 03, 2010

A regular feature from the pages of DOTmed Business News.

This month in medical history - May: The world unites against smallpox

May 24, 2010

In what must go down as one of the finest examples of humanity, the world carried out a global campaign to finish a war that had claimed more lives than all manmade wars combined.

This Month in Medical History - April: Got (Heated Up to 163 Degrees Celsius) Milk?

April 05, 2010

Before Louis Pasteur attached his name to milk cartons across the world, he was a chemist with an impeccable ability to conduct research.

This Month in Medical History - March: "In Flew Enza"

March 03, 2010

A children's song from years past captured the fears of the Spanish Flu.

This Month in Medical History - February: Can You Hear Me Now?

February 11, 2010

This month, we celebrate the birthday of a man who made it possible to hear people more clearly more than fifty years before the telephone was invented.

This Month in Medical History - January: First in Class and First Ever

January 11, 2010

Although Susan B. Anthony is well-known regarding women's rights (possibly due in part to being immortalized through a U.S. dollar coin bearing her likeness) she was far from the first to advance the rights of women.

This Month in Medical History - December: A Heartening Breakthrough

December 08, 2009

Poets have tapped into its symbolism for hundreds of years, it has lent its services to a number of words including breaking, rending, ache, felt, warming and more.

This Month in Medical History - November: Facing the World Again

November 04, 2009

The operation was a success and made Dinoire the first person to ever receive a partial face transplant.

This Month in Medical History - October: Angiograms Are Born

October 09, 2009

Accidental discovery of a procedure to visualize heart disease.

This Month in Medical History - September: For Penicillin, Persistence Pays

September 13, 2009

In September of 1928, in Fleming's untidy lab, a petri dish containing staphylococcus bacteria also became host to some opportunistic mold.

This Month in Medical History - August: More Than Mouthwash

August 12, 2009

Lister's contribution to medicine was incalculable.

This Month in Medical History - July: The Birth of a Life-Giving Procedure

July 13, 2009

DOTmed wishes Louise Joy Brown a Happy Birthday this month.

This Month in Medical History - June: You Have to Hand It to Dr. Meredith

June 10, 2009

Dr. Jesse H. Meredith, a pioneering limb re-implantation surgeon.

This Month in Medical History - May: "The Pill" Is Approved by the FDA

May 09, 2009

In May 1960, the FDA gave approval to a drug that has perhaps done more to reshape society than any other.

This Month in Medical History - April: Polio Vaccine Is Made Public

April 15, 2009

With the possible exception of AIDS, there hasn't been a disease in American history causing more public concern than the polio epidemics that would spring-up periodically across the country barely more than five decades ago.

This Month in Medical History - March: The Heart of the Matter

March 18, 2009

Did you know that telemedicine dates back to 1905? Read DOTmed's monthly briefing.

This Month in Medical History - February: DNA and the Double Helix

February 16, 2009

Their first announcement to the world took place in an arguably un-scholarly location. Crick walked into the Eagle Pub in Cambridge, England, with the announcement, "we had found the secret of life."

This Month in Medical History - January: Insulin makes an impact

January 29, 2009

Less than 100 years ago, being afflicted with Type 1 diabetes, which typically affects individuals under the age of 20, was a death sentence.

This Month in Medical History - December: The last laugh

December 29, 2008

From appendix to teeth, if you've ever had to have one removed by a professional - then you should go to great pains to thank Horace Wells (1815-1848), a Hartford, Connecticut dentist.

This Month in Medical History - November: X-rays exist

November 06, 2008

On November 8, 1895 Wilhelm Röntgen (1845-1923) made a discovery that would revolutionize the medical industry and go on to benefit millions.