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Healthcare Technology Patient Care
  • Sharon Roth-DeFulvio
  • 4/20/2006

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Agenda
  • Technology Watch List
  • Technology 3 Heartsbreath Breathalyzers
  • Technology 2 Dynamic 3D Echocardiography in
    Virtual Reality
  • Technology 1 Nanocarriers to Fight Cancer

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Technology Watch List
  1. Nanocarriers to Fight Cancer
  2. Dynamic 3D echocardiography in virtual reality
  3. Heartsbreath Breathalyzers
  4. Enzyme-based computers
  5. Spray-on Nanocomputers
  6. A laser that sees through solid objects
  7. Iris Identification
  8. PACS (Picture Archival Communication System)
    used with Diagnostic Radiology
  9. Artemis
  10. E-Prescribing
  11. 3-D Face Imaging
  12. FIRAT (Force Sensing Integrated Readout and
    Active Tip)
  13. Genetically engineered mice with glowing hearts
  14. 3D ads in the sky
  15. Nanoarmors

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Technology 3Heartsbreath Breathalyzers
  • A breath sensor, a billion times more
    sensitive than police breathalyzers, can already
    check for asthma, ulcers or trouble with a heart
    transplant, and if the chemical fingerprint of a
    disease is known, it can test for it. Crucial to
    the test is not the shallow breath from the upper
    part of our lungs but the breath derived from
    alveoli, the tiny chambers at the tips of the
    bronchial air passages, deep inside. Alveoli are
    lined with membranes loaded with tiny blood
    vessels. The chemicals in the blood easily cross
    this membrane so that the alveolar breath
    "mirrors the composition of the blood."

Heartsbreath scanner (Credit Menssana Research).
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Technology3Heartsbreathalyzers Opportunity
  • In the future, hand-held devices similar to a
    Palm Pilot may be routinely used for the early
    detection of breast, colon and other cancers,
    tuberculosis, diabetes and pre-eclampsia.
  • Home monitoring hand-held breath monitors will
    on day be used at home to check our health and
    the evolution of our diseases.
  • Increase testing for disease/health conditions

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Technology 3Heartsbreathalyzer Benefits
  • Early detection of diseases and conditions.
  • Reduction in costs of testing
  • Innovative and less invasive test for diseases
    and health conditions.
  • Reduction in the cost of traditional tests for
    diseases and health conditions
  • At home patient monitoring of progression of
    disease and present condition.

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Technology 2Dynamic 3D echocardiographyin
virtual reality
  • Doctors are using a virtual reality system to
    visualize the heart in three dimensions and
    detect if it is healthy or not. In a pilot
    study, ten doctors were able to move around
    virtual three-dimensional animated images or
    'holograms' of the heart and to make correct
    diagnosis after a ten-minute training.

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?This figure shows a researcher in the I-Space,
looking at the 3D hologram wearing a lightweight
pair of glasses with polarizing lenses. Within
the I-space the head and hand movements of the
viewer is being tracking by four infrared
cameras, allowing a natural interaction with the
images that are displayed.
? A 3D hologram of a patient with an
atrioventricular septal defect is seen from a
ventricular view. The arrow points out the
commissure between the superior (SBL) and
inferior bridging leaflets (IBL) (RV right
ventricle).
?An impression of a 6-walled I-space virtual
reality system. The I-space installed at the
Erasmus is a 4-walled system, without ceiling and
sliding back wall.
Images courtesy of Barco N.V.
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Heart Disease Facts
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Technology 2Dynamic 3D echocardiographyin
virtual reality - Opportunities
  • Until now, the 3D echocardiographic
    reconstructions could only be seen on a 2D
    screen, but virtual reality makes it possible to
    'dive' into the actual 3D anatomy of the heart.
  • Professionals, familiar with intracardiac
    anatomy, can learn how to handle the technique
    and cut through these holograms within 10
    minutes.
  • Subsequently, they were all able to correctly
    diagnose the intracardiac anatomy or pathology of
    the mitral valve.
  • At the moment, I-Space technology is only
    available in a few dedicated research centres
    throughout the world. Therefore, the combination
    of the 3D echocardiography and virtual reality is
    very uncommon and the applicability and
    usefulness in clinical practice is still limited.

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Technology 2Dynamic 3D echocardiographyin
virtual reality - Benefits
  • Improve patient quality of care.
  • Detection of abnormalities and heart disease in
    the earliest stages.

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Technology 1Nanocarriers to Fight Cancer
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Technology 1Nanocarriers to Fight Cancer
  • Anticancer drugs are now being administered to
    patients using methods that cause the
    indiscriminate killing of both diseased and
    healthy cells.
  • Such chemotherapy leads to side-effects, such as
    nausea, fatigue, and hair loss, and makes the
    patient weak and frail.
  • For these reasons, there is a crucial need for
    the development of more effective cancer therapy,
    which not only minimizes side-effects but also
    directly targets diseased cells.

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Technology 1Nanocarriers to Fight Cancer
  • Researchers at the Institute of Bioengineering
    and Nanotechnology (IBN) in Singapore have
    designed 'smart' nanocarriers which deliver the
    drugs exactly where they are needed, reducing
    side effects and suppressing cancer growth. Their
    core-shell nanoparticles are both sensitive to
    temperature and to acidic levels. When these
    nanocarriers encounter acidic environments such
    as tumor tissues, they break apart and release
    the molecules they contain.

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Technology 1 - OpportunityNanocarriers to Fight
Cancer
  • Intelligent drug delivery.
  • Opportunity for a more effective cancer therapy -
    Directly targets diseased cells.
  • Minimizes side-effects of current radiation
    treatments.
  • This technology may also be used in in-vitro and
    animal studies for drug discovery.

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Technology 1 - BenefitsNanocarriers to Fight
Cancer
  • Intelligent drug delivery
  • Quality of life patient and family
  • Reduction in the risk to healthcare
    professionals.
  • The powerful drugs used in chemotherapy can
    themselves cause cancer and pose a risk to
    nurses, pharmacists and others who handle them.
  • Significant reduction in healthcare costs.

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Sources
  • American Cancer Society
  • American Heart Association
  • Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology
  • Marsa, Linda, Special to The Los Angeles Times,
    November 19, 2005
  • http//blogs.zdnet.com/emergingtech/
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