Health
The Future of Your Medical Data
How health data is becoming better connected, a la Facebook, changing the way patients, doctors and institutions interact
Special Report
Modernizing Medicine: Health Care in the Information Age
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
Tech
Researchers aim to prevent identity theft from medical records
Over time, patients end up providing a wealth of information to their health care providers, and when all our data are aggregated, they are also a boon to researchers studying trends in diseases and demographics for clues in how to better treat illness.
iRegulate: Should Medical Apps Face Government Oversight?
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
Medicine goes mobile: iPhone apps take vitals, track viruses
On tiny keypads and greasy touch screens, doctors, nurses, NPs and physicians assistants these days are doing a lot more than checking email and phone messages.
Hospital Workers Sharing Music? They May Also Be Sharing Your Medical Records
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
Moving forward with electronic health records
NEW YORK—Almost a year since President Obama signed the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), which earmarked some $19 billion to get electronic health records off the ground, most of the country's medical and research institutions are still primarily pushing paper.
Fewer deaths in hospitals with computerized records
Don't underestimate the value of good bookkeeping. A new study says that your chance of dying and suffering complications is lower in hospitals and clinics that computerize patient charts and drug orders.
Physician, Heal Thyself
Disagreement swirls around a plan to prevent errors in hospitals
New journal aims to reframe doctor-patient collaborations in health care
Swallow the doctor's diagnosis whole, or spend weeks plowing through the primary research literature at a medical library—at the risk of alienating your physician.
Is Obama right that technology can lower health care costs?
Millions of people in the U.S. and around the world watched the historic inauguration of Barack Obama as he vowed to rebuild and reunite a fractured nation facing war, economic turmoil and other major challenges.
HDTV and Digital Cinema Chip Powers Medical Imaging Innovations
Digital light processing technology celebrates its 20th anniversary but its inventor has his eye on the future
RFID in the hospital: Not so private eyes are watching you
You’ve been tagged.
Hospitals are increasingly using electronic-monitoring equipment to track patients, employees and medical devices to prevent them from going the way of the Junior Mint Seinfeld ’s Kramer infamously dropped into an open surgical patient.
3-D Mammography Adds New Dimension to Breast Cancer Screening
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
Hospital Choice Can Be a Life-and-Death Decision
A study of Medicare patient outcomes reveals a wide chasm in mortality rates between the best hospitals and average or poor ones. www.healthgrades.com
Heart-Stopper: Could Hackers Hit Pacemakers, Other Medical Implants?
Researchers warn that implantable medical devices could be vulnerable to cyber strikes
Will Electronic Medical Records Improve Health Care?
Some see electronic health records as little more than disjointed data, whereas others see potential to improve health care, identify trends and stop outbreaks
Who's Keeping an Eye on Your Online Health Records?
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
Medical Monitoring Networks Get Personal
The FCC is considering a request to allocate spectrum bandwidth for medical body area networks that wirelessly monitor one's health
