This piece lists five diagnostic trends from a medtech conference this past summer. The five trends are more point-of-care [MORE]
Patient privacy laws protect people from having their medical records sold by doctors and hospitals. But state agencies which [MORE]
By combining two types of algorithms that search for adverse drug effects in medical records, a researcher at the [MORE]
A key difference between healthcare providers which claim to be offering “more personalized medicine” than ever and those that [MORE]
One of the advantages electronic medical records offer is the computerized screening of a patient’s data for undiagnosed illness. [MORE]
Kaiser Permanente has introduced a mobile app that gives its 9 million subscribers cell phone access to their medical [MORE]
This video clip, without showing anything particularly new, still illustrates some of the practical and subtle changes that accompany [MORE]
This dowloadable report forecasts much of consumer driven healthcare, observing that “The building blocks of a health device ecosystem [MORE]
Electronic medical records have not been developed to support clinical research, but a group of major pharmas and thirteen [MORE]
My Care Card
This is an interesting story about cultural contrasts. In Europe, where identify cards have existed long enough [MORE]
The Texas Health and Human Services Commission has awarded Hewlett-Packard a $30m contract to create a health information exchange [MORE]
IBM and Peking University People’s Hospital are carrying out a pilot project for a longitudinal electronic medical record that [MORE]
Electronic Informed Consent
Old fashioned clinical researchers prefer to rely on paper informed consent forms, just as old fashioned hospitals [MORE]
Paul Chang MD
At the Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine’s annual meeting, the program will feature a “bootcamp” for physicians, [MORE]