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JUNE 12, 2013

Avizia has introduced its new Educator solution, which is designed to reinvent how video conferencing rooms are controlled by making the process simple, comprehensive and intuitive. Avizia formally launched its Educator product at InfoComm 2013, the largest commercial audiovisual trade show, being held here at the Orange County Convention Center through June 14.

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Medicine and Technology

JUNE 20, 2013

Wow, this is quite an incredible story on CNN. 3-year-old Grayson Clamp is the nation's first child to receive an auditory brain stem implant. This boy was born without a cochlear nerve, so a cochlear implant didn't help him. He couldn't hear anything until he recently had surgery for an auditory brain stem implant. Grayson now wears an external speech processor containing a microphone and he also has an external battery that powers the auditory brain stem implant.

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JUNE 14, 2013

The program for the ATA Federal Telemedicine Policy Summit (June 27-28 in Washington, DC) is designed to give you insider perspective on the big policy issues facing remote healthcare. We all know what these policy hot topics are—they’re splayed throughout the industry press on a daily basis. In a sense, the program for the Policy Summit is ripped from the headlines.

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Medicine and Technology

JUNE 6, 2013

Here is an infographic on the challenging topic of medication adherence: Via: Healthcare Intelligence Network.

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Medicine and Technology

JUNE 24, 2013

Don't miss HealthTech Conference 2013 this October 30 in Mountain View, CA. HealthTech Conference 2013 will take place in Computer History Museum, the world's leading institution exploring the history of computing and its continuing impact on society. Locating the HealthTech Conference at the Computer History Museum celebrates the current convergence of information technology and healthcare.

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Medicine and Technology

JUNE 13, 2013

Don't miss the Digital Health Summit at #CEWeek in NYC later this month: Digital Health Summit June 26, 2013 11:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Metropolitan Pavilion | 125 W 18th St. NY, NY The event will cover the booming markets of next generation medical devices, remote monitoring, mHealth apps and products, cloudbased medical services, and wellness and fitness devices.

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Medicine and Technology

JUNE 12, 2013

This year at TEDGlobal 2013, there was a fascinating presentation by Mark Kendall about a medical invention called the Nanopatch. This is a tiny square patch that can deliver a vaccine. This non-needle delivery method also addresses a number of problems that keep vaccines from being effective. Read about it here.

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Medicine and Technology

JUNE 4, 2013

ASCO is the American Society of Clinical Oncology. It's the biggest professional cancer conference that draws a huge international crowd in Chicago every year. The city of Chicago sees a huge surge of tourism activity around this conference every summer. In somewhat unrelated news, CBS published a story about Michael Douglas, his throat cancer, and HPV - the virus that causes cervical cancer, penile cancer, vulvar cancer, anal cancer, and oral cancers.

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Medicine and Technology

JUNE 2, 2013

This Mon and Tues (June 3 and 4), you can expect a lot of tweets using the hashtag #HDpalooza from the Health Datapalooza. Health Datapalooza IV (HDP IV) is the fourth annual national conference born from government efforts to liberate health data. The conference is a forum that features the newest and most innovative and effective uses of health data by companies, startups, academics, government agencies and individuals.

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