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Novel K-anonimity algorithm safeguards access to data
Nov 20, 2009 |
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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. ...
Can pen and paper help make electronic medical records better?
Jul 20, 2009 |
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The results of a new study of the pen and paper workarounds employed by healthcare providers who use an electronic medical record system may help make electronic medical records even more useful to health-care providers and ...
Giving doctors the complete picture
Mar 06, 2009 |
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During the course of a hospitalization, patients are seen by a variety of specialists in addition to the physician who has primary responsibility for their care. However, faulty communication, inappropriate timing, inadequate ...
Protecting patient privacy the new fashioned way
Sep 25, 2008 |
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Protecting patient privacy has been recognized as the duty of health-care providers for about as long as doctors have seen patients. In 1996 that duty became a legal obligation when Congress passed the Health Insurance Portability ...
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Modified Bluetooth speeds up telemedicine
Nov 02, 2009 |
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A telemedicine system based on a modified version of the Bluetooth wireless protocol can transfer patient data, such as medical images from patient to the healthcare provider's mobile device for patient assessment almost ...
Why the Web tells us what we already know
Jan 24, 2008 |
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The Internet is not the font of all knowledge, despite the plethora of information available at your fingertips.
A look to the future
Sep 23, 2008 |
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Investigators from the Regenstrief Institute have led a demonstration of how health information exchange technologies developed and tested regionally can be used to securely share patient information across the nation during ...
Yoga boosts heart health
Nov 09, 2009 |
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Heart rate variability, a sign of a healthy heart, has been shown to be higher in yoga practitioners than in non-practitioners, according to research to be published in a forthcoming issue of the International Journal of ...
Patient privacy assured by electronic censor
Jul 24, 2008 |
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Newly developed software will help to allay patients' fears about who has access to their confidential data. Research published today in the open access journal BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making describes a comp ...
Wanted: 40,000 more health IT professionals
Apr 17, 2008 |
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If the U.S. healthcare system moves toward wider adoption of advanced information technology systems to control health care costs, reduce medical errors and improve patient care, it will need at least 40,000 additional health ...
Unique electronic strategy alerts physicians to latest clinical information on H1N1 flu
May 05, 2009 |
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History was made at 2:30 p.m. (EDT) on Wednesday, April 29, when more than 3,000 physicians in Indianapolis were sent a broadcast alert on swine flu (H1N1 virus) from the Marion County Health Department. The message was of ...
A new iconic drug information system inspired by road signs
Apr 24, 2008 |
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Although drug prescriptions are notoriously difficult to read, prescribing errors due to a lack of knowledge of drug properties are a worse problem.
Study suggests doctors could add to Wikipedia
Apr 30, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Researchers are suggesting that doctors could be spending more time writing and editing Wikipedia pages on medical topics, despite questions that have been raised about the collaborative online encyclopedia's ...
A sensible censor for sharing medical records
Jul 24, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Newly developed MIT software will help to allay patients' fears about who has access to their confidential records, facilitating the use of that data for medical research.
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