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Managing doctors' practices made easier with new software

Medicine & Health / Other

created Nov 25, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A McMaster University-led research team has developed an innovative software tool that gives family doctors up-to-date information on their patients in two seconds or less.


Projections of savings from health IT are baseless, researchers say

Medicine & Health / Health

created Nov 20, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The increased computerization in U.S. hospitals hasn't made them cheaper or more efficient, Harvard researchers say, although it may have modestly improved the quality of care for heart attacks.





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Computerized support keeps prominence of name brand drugs at bay

Medicine & Health / Other

created Nov 09, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Simple computerized alerts can help curb the impulse to prescribe unnecessarily expensive, heavily marketed drugs. A study in the August issue of Journal of General Internal Medicine found that when clinicians received comput ...


Novel K-anonimity algorithm safeguards access to data

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created Nov 20, 2009 | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 0

As electronic health records become more widely deployed, increasing amounts of health information are being collected. This data has many beneficial applications, such as research, public health, and health system planning. ...


Trimming US health care spending will require new approaches, study finds

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created Nov 11, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Slowing the growth in U.S. health care spending will most likely require adoption of an array of strategies as well as an improved approach to moving promising strategies into widespread use, according to a new analysis by ...


Text message reminders can encourage healthy action

Medicine & Health / Health

created Nov 16, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

People who received daily text messages reminding them to apply sunscreen were nearly twice as likely to use it as those who did not receive such messages, a new study led by a UC Davis Health System dermatologist has found. ...


Study examines quality and duration of primary care visits

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created Nov 09, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Adult primary care visits have increased in quality, duration and frequency between 1997 and 2005, according to a report in the November 9 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine.


Artificial Intelligence Shuffles Schedules, Cuts Patients' Wait Times

Artificial Intelligence Shuffles Schedules, Cuts Patients' Wait Times

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created Dec 03, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Some of the same artificial intelligence (AI) underlying NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope is now streamlining patient care at Strong Memorial Hospital, helping radiologists and technologists ...


Need for emergency airway surgery for hard-to-intubate patients reduced

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created Nov 17, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Be prepared, that old Boy Scout motto, is being applied with great success to operating room patients whose anatomy may make it difficult for physicians to help them breathe during surgery, Johns Hopkins researchers report ...


Google, other Silicon Valley firms nurture app developers

Technology / Internet

created Dec 03, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

They crowd the lobby of Google's Building 43 one evening a month, waiting to climb the wide stairway under a mock-up of the world's first private spacecraft, SpaceShipOne, prepared to delve deep into the Internet giant's ...


Software cos. eye key patent case in Supreme Court (AP)

Software cos. eye key patent case in Supreme Court

Technology / Business

created Nov 08, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 2

(AP) -- With the technology industry looking on, the Supreme Court on Monday will explore what types of inventions should be eligible for a patent in a pivotal case that could undermine such legal protections ...



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