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FDA Issues 22 Warning Letters To Web Site Operators
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration completed a coordinated, weeklong, international effort, called the International Internet Week of Action (IIWA), intended to curb illegal actions involving medical products. (Source: IT / Internet / E-mail News From Medical News Today)
Source: IT / Internet / E-mail News From Medical News Today - November 20, 2009 Category: Information Technology Tags: IT / Internet / E-mail Source Type: news
Kansas Pilot Program To Use Electronic Medical Records To Coordinate CareEmail this article to a colleague.
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A health information technology project "may revolutionize how health care is managed" by using medical records to coordinate patients' records. The Kansas City Star reports: "A pilot program is helping 13 area doctors' offices convert to doing that for their patients. (Source: IT / Internet / E-mail News From Medical News Today)
Source: IT / Internet / E-mail News From Medical News Today - November 20, 2009 Category: Information Technology Tags: IT / Internet / E-mail Source Type: news
Oscar Pistorius' Artificial Limbs Give Him Clear, Major Advantage For Sprint RunningEmail this article to a colleague.
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The artificial lower limbs of double-amputee Olympic hopeful Oscar Pistorius give him a clear and major advantage over his competition, taking 10 seconds or more off what his 400-meter race time would be if his prosthesis behaved like intact limbs. That's the conclusion - released to the public for the first time - of human performance experts Peter Weyand of Southern Methodist University in Dallas and Matthew Bundle of the University of Wyoming. (Source: IT / Internet / E-mail News From Medical News Today)
Source: IT / Internet / E-mail News From Medical News Today - November 19, 2009 Category: Information Technology Tags: Sports Medicine / Fitness Source Type: news
When It Comes To Brains Bigger Is Not Necessarily BetterEmail this article to a colleague.
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Tiny insects could be as intelligent as much bigger animals, despite only having a brain the size of a pinhead, say scientists at Queen Mary, University of London. "Animals with bigger brains are not necessarily more intelligent," according to Lars Chittka, Professor of Sensory and Behavioural Ecology at Queen Mary's Research Centre for Psychology and University of Cambridge colleague, Jeremy Niven. (Source: IT / Internet / E-mail News From Medical News Today)
Source: IT / Internet / E-mail News From Medical News Today - November 18, 2009 Category: Information Technology Tags: Neurology / Neuroscience Source Type: news
Indiana University Receives NIH Grant To Improve Health Care In East AfricaEmail this article to a colleague.
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A $1.3 million grant to Indiana University from the National Institutes of Health's Fogarty International Center will establish the East African Center of Excellence in Health Informatics. (Source: IT / Internet / E-mail News From Medical News Today)
Source: IT / Internet / E-mail News From Medical News Today - November 18, 2009 Category: Information Technology Tags: IT / Internet / E-mail Source Type: news
Hand-Held Computer May Help Improve Pulmonary Embolism DiagnosisEmail this article to a colleague.
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Pulmonary embolism is a life-threatening condition most often caused by a blood clot breaking off from a vein and entering the circulatory system. While evidence-based guidelines exist to help physicians safely and efficiently evaluate patients with suspected pulmonary embolism, testing often differs from what is suggested. Researchers sought to determine if a computer program for use on a mobile, handheld device could improve diagnostic decision-making. (Source: IT / Internet / E-mail News From Medical News Today)
Source: IT / Internet / E-mail News From Medical News Today - November 17, 2009 Category: Information Technology Tags: Vascular Source Type: news
2009/068 New NICE Programme To Evaluate Medical Technologies EstablishedEmail this article to a colleague.
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The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence is launching a new programme focusing specifically on the evaluation of innovative medical technologies (including devices and diagnostics). This new programme will both compliment and operate in conjunction with NICE's existing technology appraisal capacity, which will continue to evaluate new pharmaceutical and biotechnology products. (Source: IT / Internet / E-mail News From Medical News Today)
Source: IT / Internet / E-mail News From Medical News Today - November 17, 2009 Category: Information Technology Tags: Medical Devices / Diagnostics Source Type: news
ANA Launches New And Improved Online Bookstore On Nursingworld.orgEmail this article to a colleague.
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Nursesbooks.org, the publishing program of ANA, today announced that it has launched a newly redesigned online bookstore that goes live today. To kick off the new site, through the month of December Nursesbooks.org is offering a 10% discount on all ANA products at final checkout for online orders*. (Source: IT / Internet / E-mail News From Medical News Today)
Source: IT / Internet / E-mail News From Medical News Today - November 17, 2009 Category: Information Technology Tags: Nursing / Midwifery Source Type: news
Electronic Health Records Not Yet Making Impact, Patients Turn To Web For AdviceEmail this article to a colleague.
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As the United States launches "an ambitious program, backed by $19 billion in government incentives, to accelerate the adoption of computerized patient records in doctors' offices and hospitals," a new study of 3,000 hospitals "has found little difference in the cost and quality of care," The New York Times reports. "Dr. (Source: IT / Internet / E-mail News From Medical News Today)
Source: IT / Internet / E-mail News From Medical News Today - November 17, 2009 Category: Information Technology Tags: IT / Internet / E-mail Source Type: news
Biomedical Informatics Symposium Opens With Address From Calif. Health Care LeaderEmail this article to a colleague.
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The American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) opened its Annual Symposium on Biomedical and Health Informatics with more than 2,000 members and registrants gathered at the Hilton San Francisco to exchange new information, best practices, and cutting-edge thinking on an array of topics in this burgeoning health care field. Opening the symposium was Mark D. (Source: IT / Internet / E-mail News From Medical News Today)
Source: IT / Internet / E-mail News From Medical News Today - November 17, 2009 Category: Information Technology Tags: IT / Internet / E-mail Source Type: news
Disease-matching Software Could Save ChildrenEmail this article to a colleague.
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By matching children with rare or life-threatening diseases and modelling potential disease progression, researchers hope to find new routes forward. Software tools are being developed that can search and compare patient data at hospitals across Europe to find children with closely matched conditions. The doctors can then study how the matched patients at other hospitals were treated and whether that treatment was successful. (Source: IT / Internet / E-mail News From Medical News Today)
Source: IT / Internet / E-mail News From Medical News Today - November 17, 2009 Category: Information Technology Tags: IT / Internet / E-mail Source Type: news
Motivational Impact Of Virtual Workout PartnersEmail this article to a colleague.
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Based on evidence people work harder with a partner than when working alone, a team of Michigan State University researchers are pairing college-age students with a virtual workout partner to study the impact on exercise trends. Deborah Feltz, chairperson of MSU's Department of Kinesiology, is leading a team that will use the Eye Toy camera and PlayStation 2 to measure what characteristics in a virtual partner motivate people to exercise harder, longer or more frequently. (Source: IT / Internet / E-mail News From Medical News Today)
Source: IT / Internet / E-mail News From Medical News Today - November 14, 2009 Category: Information Technology Tags: Sports Medicine / Fitness Source Type: news
Technology To Modify Behavior Of Nanoparticles Could Ease Public ConcernsEmail this article to a colleague.
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In an advance that could help ease health and environmental concerns about the emerging nanotechnology industry, scientists are reporting development of technology for changing the behavior of nanoparticles in municipal sewage treatment plants - their main gateway into the environment. Their study was published online November 12 in ACS' journal Environmental Science & Technology. (Source: IT / Internet / E-mail News From Medical News Today)
Source: IT / Internet / E-mail News From Medical News Today - November 14, 2009 Category: Information Technology Tags: Water - Air Quality / Agriculture Source Type: news
New Book Thinking In Circles About Obesity Presents A Novel Approach To Addressing The Weight CrisisEmail this article to a colleague.
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Low-carb…low-fat…high-protein…high-fiber…Americans are food-savvy, label-conscious, calorie-aware - and still gaining weight in spite of all their good intentions. Worse still, today's children run the risk of a shorter life expectancy than their parents. Thinking in Circles About Obesity by Tarek Hamid brings a healthy portion of critical thinking, spiced with humor and lively graphics, to the obesity debate. (Source: IT / Internet / E-mail News From Medical News Today)
Source: IT / Internet / E-mail News From Medical News Today - November 13, 2009 Category: Information Technology Tags: Obesity / Weight Loss / Fitness Source Type: news
£4.9 Million To Develop Metamaterials For 'Invisibility Cloaks' And 'Perfect Lenses'Email this article to a colleague.
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Research into designing and building unique 'metamaterials' has received a £4.9 million funding boost from The Leverhulme Trust. Metamaterials can be used for invisibility 'cloaking' devices, sensitive security sensors that can detect tiny quantities of dangerous substances, and flat lenses that can be used to image tiny objects much smaller than the wavelength of light. (Source: IT / Internet / E-mail News From Medical News Today)
Source: IT / Internet / E-mail News From Medical News Today - November 13, 2009 Category: Information Technology Tags: IT / Internet / E-mail Source Type: news
Pocket Nanotech Via IPhone And IPod TouchEmail this article to a colleague.
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The Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies (PEN) has developed findNano, an application for Apple's iPhone and iPod Touch that lets users discover and determine whether consumer products are nanotechnology-enabled. Nanotechnology, the emerging technology of using materials by engineering them at an incredibly small scale, has applications ranging from consumer electronics to improved drug delivery systems. (Source: IT / Internet / E-mail News From Medical News Today)
Source: IT / Internet / E-mail News From Medical News Today - November 13, 2009 Category: Information Technology Tags: IT / Internet / E-mail Source Type: news
Businesses At Risk From Health Reform, Or Status Quo, Depending On SourceEmail this article to a colleague.
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The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the Employment Policies Institute and other friends of business have joined to launch a national television ad campaign, beginning Thursday, that will warn against the health care overhaul, The Boston Globe reports. (Source: IT / Internet / E-mail News From Medical News Today)
Source: IT / Internet / E-mail News From Medical News Today - November 13, 2009 Category: Information Technology Tags: Health Insurance / Medical Insurance Source Type: news
Small Things Considered Wins Big At PRNews' 2009 Nonprofit AwardsEmail this article to a colleague.
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Small Things Considered, a microbiology blog published by the American Society for Microbiology (ASM), has been honored with a non-profit public relations award from PR News for best blog. The awards were announced at a luncheon held in Washington, DC, on November 3, 2009. "I feel honored and pleased that a specialized subject area that's dear to my heart can garner such national recognition," said Moselio Schaechter, blog author and past president of the ASM. (Source: IT / Internet / E-mail News From Medical News Today)
Source: IT / Internet / E-mail News From Medical News Today - November 12, 2009 Category: Information Technology Tags: IT / Internet / E-mail Source Type: news
Studying The Inner Realm Of Living CellsEmail this article to a colleague.
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Scientists in Washington, DC, are reporting development and successful tests of a new way for exploring the insides of living cells, the microscopic building blocks of all known plants and animals. They explode the cell while it is still living inside a plant or animal, vaporize its contents, and sniff. The study appears in online in ACS' journal Analytical Chemistry. (Source: IT / Internet / E-mail News From Medical News Today)
Source: IT / Internet / E-mail News From Medical News Today - November 12, 2009 Category: Information Technology Tags: Biology / Biochemistry Source Type: news
Study: Trimming US Health Care Spending Will Require New ApproachesEmail this article to a colleague.
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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 the RAND Corporation. (Source: IT / Internet / E-mail News From Medical News Today)
Source: IT / Internet / E-mail News From Medical News Today - November 12, 2009 Category: Information Technology Tags: Primary Care / General Practice Source Type: news
3-D Software To Give Doctors, Students A View Inside The Body Developed By Iowa State EngineersEmail this article to a colleague.
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James Oliver picked up an Xbox game controller, looked up to a video screen and used the device's buttons and joystick to fly through a patient's chest cavity for an up-close look at the bottom of the heart. And there was a sight doctors had never seen before: an accurate, 3-D view inside a patient's body accessible with a personal computer. A view doctors can shift, adjust, turn, zoom and replay at will. Software that uses real patient data from CT and MRI scans. (Source: IT / Internet / E-mail News From Medical News Today)
Source: IT / Internet / E-mail News From Medical News Today - November 12, 2009 Category: Information Technology Tags: IT / Internet / E-mail Source Type: news
National Effort To Recruit Volunteers For Medical ResearchEmail this article to a colleague.
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A new national initiative involving UT Southwestern Medical Center will match volunteers who want to take part in medical research studies with the scientists who are leading those studies. ResearchMatch is a national partnership that will provide a free meeting place - via the Web - where volunteers can be matched to a scientific research project, or clinical trial, for which they might qualify. (Source: IT / Internet / E-mail News From Medical News Today)
Source: IT / Internet / E-mail News From Medical News Today - November 12, 2009 Category: Information Technology Tags: Clinical Trials / Drug Trials Source Type: news
Putting The Squeeze On DNAEmail this article to a colleague.
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Researchers in Egypt have developed a technique to compress DNA sequences of the kind used in medical research so that they take up a lot less space in a computer database but without loss of information. The approach is described in detail in a forthcoming issue of the International Journal of Bioinformatics Research and Applications. (Source: IT / Internet / E-mail News From Medical News Today)
Source: IT / Internet / E-mail News From Medical News Today - November 12, 2009 Category: Information Technology Tags: Genetics Source Type: news
CWRU To Develop Technologies For Virtual Coaching To Help Patient-Doctor CommunicationsEmail this article to a colleague.
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Millions of people suffer from chronic ailments like heart disease, high blood pressure or diabetes, and need critical information from their healthcare providers to manage those diseases. Sometimes patients find it uncomfortable asking a doctor of another age, gender or race for information. (Source: IT / Internet / E-mail News From Medical News Today)
Source: IT / Internet / E-mail News From Medical News Today - November 12, 2009 Category: Information Technology Tags: IT / Internet / E-mail Source Type: news
Researchers To Develop Probes To Understand Neuronal NavigationEmail this article to a colleague.
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An international group of researchers from Carnegie Mellon University, Goettingen Medical School in Germany and the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom have received a Human Frontiers Science Program (HFSP) grant to develop molecular probes that will help researchers better understand the "cellular GPS" system that guides neurons to create a properly wired nervous system. (Source: IT / Internet / E-mail News From Medical News Today)
Source: IT / Internet / E-mail News From Medical News Today - November 12, 2009 Category: Information Technology Tags: Neurology / Neuroscience Source Type: news
Slower Pupil Responses Seen In Children With Autism, University Of Missouri-Columbia Study FindsEmail this article to a colleague.
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Autism affects 1 in 150 children today, making it more common than childhood cancer, juvenile diabetes and pediatric AIDS combined. Despite its widespread effect, autism is not well understood and there are no objective medical tests to diagnose it. Recently, University of Missouri researchers have developed a pupil response test that is 92.5 percent accurate in separating children with autism from those with typical development. (Source: IT / Internet / E-mail News From Medical News Today)
Source: IT / Internet / E-mail News From Medical News Today - November 12, 2009 Category: Information Technology Tags: Autism Source Type: news
Electronic Alerts Persuade Clinicians To Switch From Costly Drugs To Generic BrandsEmail this article to a colleague.
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Simple computerized alerts can help curb the impulse to prescribe unnecessarily expensive, heavily marketed drugs, according to a study in the August issue of Journal of General Internal Medicine. The study found that when clinicians received computerized alerts, which compared medication brands, they changed 23.3 percent of prescriptions for four heavily marketed sleep medications to comparable generic equivalents. (Source: IT / Internet / E-mail News From Medical News Today)
Source: IT / Internet / E-mail News From Medical News Today - November 11, 2009 Category: Information Technology Tags: IT / Internet / E-mail Source Type: news
Robotic Repair For Vaginal Prolapse Has Significant Benefits, Mayo Researchers FindEmail this article to a colleague.
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New Mayo Clinic research has found that robotic surgery for vaginal prolapse (http://www.mayoclinic.org/pelvic-organ-prolapse/) dramatically reduces patient hospital stay and recovery time. These findings are being presented this week at the North Central Section of the American Urological Association in Scottsdale, Ariz. (Source: IT / Internet / E-mail News From Medical News Today)
Source: IT / Internet / E-mail News From Medical News Today - November 10, 2009 Category: Information Technology Tags: Women's Health / Gynecology Source Type: news
Longitude Health Announces GINA-Compliant Health Risk Assessment Available November 15th, 2009Email this article to a colleague.
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Longitude Health, Inc., provider of web-based, guided health and wellness solutions, today announced availability of a fully GINA-compliant health risk assessment on November 15th, providing employers a solution that meets current open enrollment requirements and fast approaching regulatory changes. (Source: IT / Internet / E-mail News From Medical News Today)
Source: IT / Internet / E-mail News From Medical News Today - November 9, 2009 Category: Information Technology Tags: IT / Internet / E-mail Source Type: news
EMBL Scientists Take New Approach To Predict Gene ExpressionEmail this article to a colleague.
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Embryonic development is like a well-organised building project, with the embryo's DNA serving as the blueprint from which all construction details are derived. Cells carry out different functions according to a developmental plan, by expressing, i.e. turning on, different combinations of genes. (Source: IT / Internet / E-mail News From Medical News Today)
Source: IT / Internet / E-mail News From Medical News Today - November 7, 2009 Category: Information Technology Tags: Genetics Source Type: news
Lives Saved In Sept. 29 Samoan Tsunami By Community Education And Evacuation PlanningEmail this article to a colleague.
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Community-based education and awareness programs minimized the death toll from the recent Samoan tsunami, though there are still ways to improve the warning and evacuation process, according to a team of researchers that traveled to Samoa last month. The team, funded by a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant, collected data Oct. 4 through Oct. 11 to document the impacts of the 8.1 earthquake and the ensuing tsunami that occurred on Sept. 29. (Source: IT / Internet / E-mail News From Medical News Today)
Source: IT / Internet / E-mail News From Medical News Today - November 7, 2009 Category: Information Technology Tags: Aid / Disasters Source Type: news
TAU's Smart I.V. Device To Save Lives At Disaster SitesEmail this article to a colleague.
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When paramedics rush to the scene of a multi-car pileup or a terror attack, their first task is to assess who needs immediate care. But blood hemorrhaging can obscure damage, and the gruesome mess means paramedics can't always determine who should be treated first. Tel Aviv University's new LifeFlow device, currently in development, could become the paramedic's new best friend - and save many lives in the process. (Source: IT / Internet / E-mail News From Medical News Today)
Source: IT / Internet / E-mail News From Medical News Today - November 6, 2009 Category: Information Technology Tags: Medical Devices / Diagnostics Source Type: news
Four Steps To Immunize An Organization Against H1N1: New Study By Info-Tech Research GroupEmail this article to a colleague.
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Info-Tech Research Group's latest report outlines four specific areas that IT departments need to consider when preparing for the very real threat of an H1N1 outbreak this winter. If ignored, a business could experience a substantial slow down or a complete halt in productivity. (Source: IT / Internet / E-mail News From Medical News Today)
Source: IT / Internet / E-mail News From Medical News Today - November 6, 2009 Category: Information Technology Tags: Swine Flu Source Type: news
US Lagging In Access, Quality, HIT Use According To International Survey Of Physicians In 11 CountriesEmail this article to a colleague.
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Fifty-eight percent of primary care doctors in the U.S. report their patients often have difficulty paying for medications and care, and half of U.S. doctors spend substantial time dealing with restrictions insurance companies place on their patients' care, according to findings from the 2009 Commonwealth Fund International Health Policy Survey published online in the journal Health Affairs. The responses of U.S. (Source: IT / Internet / E-mail News From Medical News Today)
Source: IT / Internet / E-mail News From Medical News Today - November 6, 2009 Category: Information Technology Tags: Health Insurance / Medical Insurance Source Type: news
Quest For More Rapid Technology To Screen Blood SamplesEmail this article to a colleague.
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Dr. Jennifer Brodbelt, professor of chemistry and biochemistry at The University of Texas at Austin, has received a $734,068 grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to develop a new method for rapidly screening blood samples for biomarkers. Biomarkers are small molecules that indicate the presence of a particular physiological condition, typically a disease. (Source: IT / Internet / E-mail News From Medical News Today)
Source: IT / Internet / E-mail News From Medical News Today - November 6, 2009 Category: Information Technology Tags: Medical Devices / Diagnostics Source Type: news
Children's Networks Exposed Young Viewers To 76 Percent More Food Commercials Per Hour Than Other NetworksEmail this article to a colleague.
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Childhood obesity in the United States is reaching epidemic proportions. With more than one fourth of advertising on daytime and prime time television devoted to foods and beverages and continuing questions about the role television plays in obesity, a study in the November/December issue of the Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior examines how food advertising aimed at children might be a large contributor to the problem. (Source: IT / Internet / E-mail News From Medical News Today)
Source: IT / Internet / E-mail News From Medical News Today - November 6, 2009 Category: Information Technology Tags: Obesity / Weight Loss / Fitness Source Type: news
Medical Transcription Industry Celebrates Health IT WeekEmail this article to a colleague.
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As health information managers and professionals across the country celebrate the health information & technology industry this week, the Association for Health Care Documentation Integrity (AHDI) and the Medical Transcription Industry Association (MTIA) announced their support for a healthcare reform package that improves electronic health records (EHRs) as well as patient safety. (Source: IT / Internet / E-mail News From Medical News Today)
Source: IT / Internet / E-mail News From Medical News Today - November 6, 2009 Category: Information Technology Tags: IT / Internet / E-mail Source Type: news
Tiny Injector To Speed Development Of New, Safer, Cheaper DrugsEmail this article to a colleague.
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It's no bigger than a stamp packet but it has the potential to allow rapid development of a new generation of drugs and genetic engineering organisms, and to better control in-vitro fertilization. Engineering researchers at McMaster University have fabricated a palm-sized, automated, micro-injector that can insert proteins, DNA and other biomolecules into individual cells at volumes exponentially higher than current procedures, and at a fraction of the cost. (Source: IT / Internet / E-mail News From Medical News Today)
Source: IT / Internet / E-mail News From Medical News Today - November 5, 2009 Category: Information Technology Tags: IT / Internet / E-mail Source Type: news
New Study Further Disputes Notion That Amputee Runners Gain Advantage From ProthesesEmail this article to a colleague.
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A study by six researchers, including a University of Colorado at Boulder associate professor and his former doctoral student, shows that amputees who use running-specific prosthetic legs have no performance advantage over counterparts who use their biological legs. A debate on the matter was spurred when Oscar Pistorius, a bilateral amputee, was barred from the 400-meter dash at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, and other able-body races. (Source: IT / Internet / E-mail News From Medical News Today)
Source: IT / Internet / E-mail News From Medical News Today - November 5, 2009 Category: Information Technology Tags: Sports Medicine / Fitness Source Type: news
Queen's Research Could Help Protect Frontline TroopsEmail this article to a colleague.
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A team of researchers at Queen's University Belfast's Centre for Secure Information Technologies (CSIT) is working to develop futuristic communications systems that could help protect frontline troops. Building on work completed recently for the UK Ministry of Defence, the project is aimed at investigating the use of arrays of highly specialised antennas that could be worn by combat troops to provide covert short-range person-to-person battleground communications. (Source: IT / Internet / E-mail News From Medical News Today)
Source: IT / Internet / E-mail News From Medical News Today - November 5, 2009 Category: Information Technology Tags: IT / Internet / E-mail Source Type: news
Veterans Administration Leads In E-Health Exchange, TooEmail this article to a colleague.
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The Veterans Health Administration was at the avant-garde of electronic medical records in the 1980s, and more recently, it's blazed the trail for exchanging health information between providers, the Lawrence (Kan.) Journal-World reports in the third of a 3-part series on EMRs. (Source: IT / Internet / E-mail News From Medical News Today)
Source: IT / Internet / E-mail News From Medical News Today - November 5, 2009 Category: Information Technology Tags: IT / Internet / E-mail Source Type: news
Internet Proves Important To Teens With Chronic ConditionsEmail this article to a colleague.
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The Internet has become a popular socializing tool for adolescents and a new study shows those with chronic health conditions might rely on it more heavily than their peers do. According to the new Swiss study, Internet use among adolescents in the country is similar to other Western regions, with 91 percent of 14 to 19 year olds logging online several times per week. (Source: IT / Internet / E-mail News From Medical News Today)
Source: IT / Internet / E-mail News From Medical News Today - November 5, 2009 Category: Information Technology Tags: IT / Internet / E-mail Source Type: news
Calling All MicrorobotsEmail this article to a colleague.
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The scientists and engineers who introduced the world to tiny robots demonstrating soccer skills are creating the next level of friendly competition designed to advance microrobotics - the field devoted to the construction and operations of useful robots whose dimensions are measured in micrometers (millionths of a meter). (Source: IT / Internet / E-mail News From Medical News Today)
Source: IT / Internet / E-mail News From Medical News Today - October 23, 2009 Category: Information Technology Tags: IT / Internet / E-mail Source Type: news
Diminished Proactive Attention Exoerienced By Action Video Game PlayersEmail this article to a colleague.
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Video game players are often accused of passively reacting to tasks that are spoon fed to them through graphics and stimuli on the screen. A group of researchers from Iowa State University shows that playing lots of video games has different effects on two types of cognitive activity, proactive and reactive attention. Proactive attention can be thought of as a sort of "gearing up" mechanism. (Source: IT / Internet / E-mail News From Medical News Today)
Source: IT / Internet / E-mail News From Medical News Today - October 14, 2009 Category: Information Technology Tags: IT / Internet / E-mail Source Type: news
Can Social Networking Help Consumers Get Healthier?Email this article to a colleague.
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Can social networking sites help people make wise health decisions? A new study in the Journal of Consumer Research says it depends on people's willingness to take action on the information they gain from the sites. Using social networking sites to obtain health information and advice is controversial. Critics say the sites can confuse, give inaccurate information, or prevent people from seeking professional advice. (Source: IT / Internet / E-mail News From Medical News Today)
Source: IT / Internet / E-mail News From Medical News Today - October 14, 2009 Category: Information Technology Tags: IT / Internet / E-mail Source Type: news
Many Medical Schools Report Incidents Of Students Posting Unprofessional Content OnlineEmail this article to a colleague.
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A majority of medical schools surveyed report they have experienced incidents of students posting unprofessional content online, including incidents involving violation of patient confidentiality, with few schools having policies to address these types of postings, according to a study in the September 23/30 issue of JAMA, a theme issue on medical education. Internet applications built around user-generated content, termed Web 2.0, include social networking sites (e.g. (Source: IT / Internet / E-mail News From Medical News Today)
Source: IT / Internet / E-mail News From Medical News Today - September 23, 2009 Category: Information Technology Tags: Medical Students / Training Source Type: news
'Intelligent Car' Able To Learn From Driver And Warn Him In Case Of Accident HazardEmail this article to a colleague.
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UGR News Scientists from six European countries, including Spain, have developed a new computer system so called DRIVSCO that allows vehicles to learn from the behaviour of their drivers at the wheel, in such a way that they can detect if a driver presents an "unusual behaviour" in a curve or an obstacle on the road and generates signals of alarm which warn him on time to react. (Source: IT / Internet / E-mail News From Medical News Today)
Source: IT / Internet / E-mail News From Medical News Today - September 23, 2009 Category: Information Technology Tags: IT / Internet / E-mail Source Type: news
The Promise Of Better Artificial Joints, Arterial Stents, Using Laser ProcessesEmail this article to a colleague.
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Researchers are developing technologies that use lasers to create arterial stents and longer-lasting medical implants that could be manufactured 10 times faster and also less expensively than is now possible. New technologies will be needed to meet the huge global market for artificial hips and knees, said Yung Shin, a professor of mechanical engineering and director of Purdue's Center for Laser-Based Manufacturing. (Source: IT / Internet / E-mail News From Medical News Today)
Source: IT / Internet / E-mail News From Medical News Today - September 16, 2009 Category: Information Technology Tags: Vascular Source Type: news
New, Web-Based Tool From The ACP Guides Practices To Become Medical HomesEmail this article to a colleague.
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The American College of Physicians (ACP) is offering a new, web-based tool to help guide practices through the process of becoming a patient-centered medical home (PCMH). The ACP Practice Solutions' Medical Home Builder, which can be used for both a major transformation into a PCMH or to help practices making small-scale quality improvement changes, is available to individuals, group practices, PCMH demonstration projects, academic medical centers and training programs. (Source: IT / Internet / E-mail News From Medical News Today)
Source: IT / Internet / E-mail News From Medical News Today - September 9, 2009 Category: Information Technology Tags: Primary Care / General Practice Source Type: news
'NanoPen' May Write New Chapter In Nanotechnology ManufacturingEmail this article to a colleague.
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Researchers in California are reporting development of a so-called "NanoPen" that could provide a quick, convenient way of laying down patterns of nanoparticles - from wires to circuits - for making futuristic electronic devices, medical diagnostic tests, and other much-anticipated nanotech applications. A report on the device, which helps solve a long-standing challenge in nanotechnology, appeared in ACS' Nano Letters, a monthly journal. (Source: IT / Internet / E-mail News From Medical News Today)
Source: IT / Internet / E-mail News From Medical News Today - September 3, 2009 Category: Information Technology Tags: IT / Internet / E-mail Source Type: news
