News tagged with patient data
Power without the cord
Cell phones and flashlights operate by battery without trouble. Yet because of the limited lifespan, battery power is not a feasible option for many applications in the fi elds of medicine or test engineering, ...
Apr 02, 2012 |
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New healthcare portal offers increased patient safety, empowerment
Today IBM announced the next evolution of the patient portal, significantly expanding the types of information, alerts, recommendations and interactive coaching healthcare providers can offer to their patients ...
Mar 04, 2011 |
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Mobile software to improve health care accessibility
According to the United Nations Foundation, there are about 5 billion mobile-device subscribers worldwide. Two-thirds of those are in low- and middle-income countries, many of whose citizens lack easy access ...
Sep 27, 2010 |
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Improving care for older adults
The Indiana Network for Patient Care (INPC), one of the highest volume health information exchanges in the United States, is expanding to include post-acute care facilities, bringing the benefits of secure health information ...
Jun 10, 2010 |
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Telemedicine in the making: Moca source code released
Moca, an MIT student organization, today announced the release of the Moca source code, a set of foundational building blocks for telemedicine and mHealth applications that use wireless networks to connect ...
Feb 18, 2010 |
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Novel K-anonimity algorithm safeguards access to data
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. ...
Nov 20, 2009 |
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Modified Bluetooth speeds up telemedicine
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 ...
Nov 02, 2009 |
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New study looks at re-identification risks
A recent study led by Dr. Khaled El Emam, the Canada Research Chair in Electronic Health Information at the CHEO Research Institute, found that the information in hospital prescription records can quite easily re-identify ...
Oct 14, 2009 |
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Study shows dramatic growth in number of hospitalists
One of the most striking changes in health care over the last two decades has been a dramatic increase in physicians categorized as "hospitalists" — doctors who practice almost exclusively in hospitals, rather than combining ...
Mar 11, 2009 |
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