June 2008

I thought I would use my column this month to discuss RevolutionHealth.com. After spending some time surfi ng around the site, I've concluded that it just might be the most over-hyped health information website ever launched. It's an all-around healthcare information portal, with a few interesting features, but there's nothing revolutionary at all.

Lawrence Catchpole, CEO, Zenda Technologies, explains a new scanning technology for assessing and monitoring mild cognitive impairment, Zenda's ImTECH platform for rapid assessment and DETECT test.

Andre Elisseef of IBM's Zurich Research Lab explains how IBM's Anatomic and Symbolic Mapper Engine (ASME) enables physicians to visualize patient records using three-dimensional representations of the human body.

Do you have blog envy? Are you getting jealous of your tech-savvy colleagues who end conversations with "I posted something about it on my blog"?

W. Vaughn McCall, MD, MS, professor and chairman of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine at the Wake Forest University School of Medicine, spends his days practicing psychiatry and his nights playing in a rock band.

Anirban Bandyopadhyay, PhD, artifi cial intelligence and molecular electronics scientist, National Institute for Materials Science at Tsukuba, Japan, talks about the "Nano-brain," a brain neuron-inspired, microscopic computer made up of 17 duroquinone molecules sitting in a ring pattern on a gold surface. The assembly has the potential to perform more than 4.3 billion commands at once, and could have far-reaching implications for medicine.

Steve Case is on a mission to save healthcare, and he intends to do it by harnessing the consumer-empowering capabilities of the Internet.