Tag: HEALTH CARE

In 2007, we were introduced to the term "cyberchondriac," which refers to a person who constantly looks up health information online, presumably in an effort to self-diagnose illnesses. Now Harris Interactive, the group that coined the phrase, has updated its prior study, and shown that more and more people are using the Web to demystify symptoms -- or perceived symptoms, anyway. Since 2009, the ...

Back in January, President Obama outlined a five-year plan in which all of the country's medical records would be digitized. By streamlining and introducing electronic standards to health data, mistakes like duplicate tests could be avoided. But, considering that only "20 percent of doctors and 10 percent of hospitals use even basic electronic health records," -- according to Kathleen Sebelius, ...

It may seem like an automatic daily routine, but keeping up with the various precautionary measures required by certain illnesses can be a significant obstacle, particularly for needle-bound diabetics. But, technology could at least offset the inevitable confusion, annoying tedium and physical pain related to frequent glucose monitoring. Researchers have already crafted designs for contact ...

Barack Obama is no stranger to spurious claims about his heritage, citizenship, and religious beliefs, but most of these claims have been met with little more than stolid dismissal by our secretly Muslim, terrorist-fist-bumping, Kenyan-born president. Start attacking the man's policies with deceptive chain e-mails and viral videos, though, and you might just find yourself on the losing side of a ...

What do you get when you mix the Royal College of Art in London, the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, ambulances, and a healthy James Bond obsession? 'Healthcare on the Move: The Smart Pods Project.' Part art show and part conceptual technology pageant, the project envisions what future British ambulances might look like. One design, for instance, envisioned a rear ...

There's a constant and ongoing struggle to get hospitals -- and the health industry as a whole -- to modernize and go digital. Many have resisted, thinking that digital records will result in the same leaks of personal information we've seen in the repeated hackings of Monster.com. However, a new study should give those digital supporters a little more ammunition. According to that study, ...

Doctors are being offered an incentive by Medicare to start ditching old paper prescriptions in favor of electronic ones. The expectation is that e-prescriptions will reduce costs and minimize mistakes due to doctors' notoriously terrible hand writing. Starting January 1st of 2009, doctors will start receiving bonuses for using e-prescriptions, which are accepted by 80-percent of pharmacies in ...

The National Center for Health Statistics, a part of the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), released a new study that reveals how far digital medical records have to go before replacing the mess of paper records doctors currently rely on. According to a survey of 2,000 doctors nationwide, just under 40-percent of doctors use electronic records. Most use them in combination with ...

The booming cost of health care in the United States and the successful deployment of international telecommunications infrastructure has created a booming market in Telemedicine, the practice of providing medical services from remote locations. US Hospitals are currently sending a large number of your x-rays, MRIs and CT scans to Bangalore, India to be processed and analyzed. Most of the ...