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Doctors Love The iPhone And iPad Even Though Many Electronic Records Systems Don’t
The iPhone is the most popular device among medical professionals, followed by the iPad and then Android smartphones. That’s one of the key findings in a new study that examines the relationship between electronic health records (EHR) systems, mobile technology, and how doctors, nurses, and other healthcare providers use both mobile devices and EHR systems. Read More »
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Does The iPad Actually Facilitate Better Patient Care?
Since Apple unveiled the iPad, the device has been lauded for its promise to enhance the way doctors deliver and patients engage with healthcare. Yet the results of a recent survey may be reason enough for Apple iPad boosters to seek treatment themselves. Read More »
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Electronic Document Management – A Paperless Cure For The NHS?
Last year health secretary Jeremy Hunt gave the NHS the challenge of becoming paperless by 2018. Can the health service meet that deadline? Or will the NHS just end up with less paper than it did in 2013?...
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FDA Clears Aycan iPad Teleradiology App For CT, MRI
Aycan Medical Systems, a maker of picture archiving and communication systems (PACS) and other storage and distribution technology for medical imaging, has received FDA 510(k) clearance for its Aycan Mobile teleradiology app for the iPad. Read More »
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Feds@Work: NASA Deputy CIO Takes Data Centers Down to Size
NASA's deputy CIO Deborah Diaz doesn't just talk about data center consolidation. She's rolling up her sleeves and making it happen at the space agency. Since Diaz joined NASA in 2009, she's been responsible for shrinking the number of data centers from 79 to 54 and eventually to 22, driven by the Obama administration's effort to eliminate excessive and duplicative services. Read More »
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For Hospitals, There's No App For That
Hospitals are usually eager to embrace the latest medical technology, but the road to deploying tablet computers has been bumpy. iPads have been available since April 2010, but less than one percent of hospitals have fully functional tablet systems, according to Jonathan Mack, director of clinical research and development at the West Wireless Health Institute, a San Diego-based nonprofit f Read More »
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Google Glass Links To EHR
'Doctors want to use more and more hands-free technology.'
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Hacker Weev Free After Appeal
Andrew Auernheimer, better known on the Internet as "weev," has had his sentence overturned by a federal appeals court, righting what many advocacy groups regarded as an unfair conviction. In 2010, Auernheimer and co-defendant Daniel Spitler found a way to access the email addresses of AT&T iPad owners through AT&T's website.
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Healthcare CIOs Juggle More Mobile Challenges
As mobile devices multiply in numbers and grow more sophisticated, healthcare CIOs are facing all kinds of new challenges in distributing information and keeping networks secure. Read More »
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High-flying entrepreneur sets sights on hospital IT
His task is ambitious: to convince hospitals across the nation to ditch the server-based electronic health record (EHR) systems they purchased for millions of dollars in recent years and switch to iCare’s new cloud-based EHR system, the first of its kind for hospitals. Read More »
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HP Hopes to Lure Mobile App Developers to Open webOS
Third-party apps built for the open source version of webOS will work across any device or browser that supports modern Web standards such as the iPad, Google Chrome, Firefox, and Internet Explorer, according to Hewlett-Packard. The company hopes that flexibility will attract more developers to write apps for webOS. Read More »
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HP Reportedly Ditches Windows RT as Microsoft Readies Surface
According to unconfirmed reports, HP has scrapped plans to build Windows RT-based tablets which would have been direct competitors to Microsoft's own upcoming Surface tablet that was announced in June. Read More »
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Innovative App First Step On Way To Virtual Glaucoma Clinics
“Virtual clinics are a way of improving living with glaucoma by reducing the patient′s need for regular travel” - Moorfields Eye Hospital has worked with core tech partners to develop a prototype it says could revolutionise the treatment of one of the most common eye diseases Read More »
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iPad vs. Secondary-class LCD Monitors: It’s a Draw
When reviewing spinal emergency cases on MRI, increased mobility doesn’t have to come at the cost of reduced reader accuracy as no statistical difference was seen in a multi-reader comparison of diagnostic accuracy between the iPad and a DICOM calibrated secondary-class LCD monitor, according to a study published in the August issue of Academic Radiology. Read More »
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iPads and Health Care—Health IT Managers Slow Down Physicians' Clinical Adoption
Doctors are using iPads in huge numbers for personal life project management. 80% of doctors are excited about using them in clinical practice. But when it comes to clinical applications, don’t confuse physicians’ desire for mobility with their current use of iPads in everyday practice.
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