Wal-Mart to Sell Electronic Health Record Systems
The superstore may improve access for small private practices.
View ArticleHospitals' Electronic Wasteland
Stimulus funds aim to change a system largely devoid of in-depth electronic record keeping.Less than 2 percent of U.S. hospitals today use comprehensive electronic health records, according to a new...
View ArticleA Smarter Search for What Ails You
Software searches through medical information by analyzing the structure of sentences in a new way.Finding information on the Web isn’t hard, as long as you know what you’re looking for. Sometimes,...
View ArticleA Pound of Cure
The federal government is about to spend big on health-care IT. Too bad the medical industry has a vested interest in inefficiency.Technology is once again being touted as a cure-all, this time for...
View ArticlePrescription: Networking
A new urban network suggests how technology could remake health care.A crow flying from Vera Sinue’s apartment in Boston’s Roxbury neighborhood to her job as an insurance representative near the...
View ArticleKeeping Medical Data Private
Algorithm protects patients’ personal information while preserving the data’s utility in large-scale medical studies.Researchers at Vanderbilt University have created an algorithm designed to protect...
View ArticleUse of Personal Health Records Is Growing
But overall use remains low, and security is the major concern.About seven percent of people in the United States have used a personal health record, double the number of users from a year earlier,...
View ArticleConnecting Electronic Medical Records
The power of search engines is applied to health-care data.Looking out his office window in Seattle, Thomas Payne can see two hospitals that use the same electronic record system as his own. And yet,...
View ArticleThe Way of the Dodo
The dodo bird has become a metaphor for extinction. A one-meter-tall, pigeonlike, flightless bird native to the island of Mauritius, the dodo died out in the late 1600s because Dutch settlers relied on...
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