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As medical records are digitized and information technology becomes more sophisticated, physicians and hospitals face a rapid transformation in the way they treat patients and track diseases
April 12, 2010 |
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How health data is becoming better connected, a la Facebook, changing the way patients, doctors and institutions interact
Patient information is becoming more widely shared among researchers--which can be a good thing or a bad thing, depending upon who has access to it
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With medical applications for smart phones becoming a more prominent part of doctors' diagnostic tool kits, the FDA is considering how it should regulate the market--if at all
Health care workers using Gnutella or other peer-to-peer (P2P) networks to share music and video, may be putting you at risk for medical identity theft, Dartmouth researchers find
Digital light processing technology celebrates its 20th anniversary but its inventor has his eye on the future
Stereo image technology allows doctors to view two digital mammograms as one 3-D picture, and promises to help them spot hard-to-detect tumors
Researchers warn that implantable medical devices could be vulnerable to cyber strikes
A study of Medicare patient outcomes reveals a wide chasm in mortality rates between the best hospitals and average or poor ones
Some see electronic health records as little more than disjointed data, whereas others see potential to improve health care, identify trends and stop outbreaks
Google, Microsoft and other providers of Web-based services for managing health care information promise to keep it secure, but privacy policies vary from site to site
The FCC is considering a request to allocate spectrum bandwidth for medical body area networks that wirelessly monitor one's health
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