Friday, May 12, 2006
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The Healthcare Information Systems Blog has moved to the following URL:
http://healthcareinformationsystemsblog.blogspot.com/
Monday, March 20, 2006
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HealthVoices.com is the premier medical blog network and aggregator, that organizes user-generated medical content by easy-to-find categories. Unprecedented consumer access to "unvarnished" medical information created from the first-hand experience of medical consumers and professionals encourages greater trust and confidence in their decisions. The service provides independent medical professionals with unmatched opportunity to build reputation, trust and referral base online.
Thursday, April 06, 2006
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Warning: The surgeon general may determine that prayer is hazardous to your health. That's what can happen when faith sets out to prove its power through science.
Monday, April 17, 2006
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Access to the site and its findings, http://www.HealthNewsReview.org, is free and open to consumers. It was created by University of Minnesota journalism professor Gary Schwitzer, who fashioned the site after similar efforts in Australia and Canada.
Saturday, April 15, 2006
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Yahoo! Health has, in my opinion, always been better than its counterpart at MSN, and the addition of expert blogs has only increased its lead. Yahoo! Health has had discussion boards and has been integrated with Yahoo! Groups for a while now; message boards are the most recent addition to MSN Health & Fitness and the site's health experts don't interact with them.
Tuesday, April 04, 2006
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Microsoft on April 4 announced the formation of the BioIT Alliance, a cross-industry group created to enhance the ability to use and share biomedical data, at the Life Sciences Conference and Expo in Boston.
"You are as close as any region of the country at beginning to be the health system of the future," Gingrich told about 300 conference attendees. He cited regional advances in electronic prescribing and the collaboration among industry, labor, government and the health industry to improve quality and lower costs in the region's health system...
Wednesday, March 29, 2006
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"[This skull] shows the continuity of the evolutionary record, so in that sense it is a link [between Homo erectus and modern humans]," said Scott Simpson, a paleontologist from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine in Cleveland, Ohio...
Sunday, March 19, 2006
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Aging Japan Builds Robot to Look After Elderly
TOKYO (AFP) - A Japanese-led research team said it had made a seeing, hearing and smelling robot that can carry human beings and is aimed at helping care for the country's growing number of elderly.
Government-backed research institute Riken said the 158-centimeter (five-foot) RI-MAN humanoid can already carry a doll weighing 12 kilograms (26 pounds) and could be capable of bearing 70 kilograms within five years.
"We're hoping that through future study it will eventually be able to care for elderly people or work in rehabilitation," said Toshiharu Mukai, one of the research team leaders.
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Saturday, March 18, 2006
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One woman, saying she was having trouble helping her 75-year-old mother make a choice, asked whether the deadline should be extended.
"No, and the reason why is there's got to be a fixed time for people to sign up," the president said. "We want people to realize there is — now is the time…. Rolling back deadlines is not going to help your mom make a good decision."
Tuesday, January 10, 2006
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[T]his initial version of Google Pack is an embarrassment to the company. It's just a mess.
Saturday, March 18, 2006
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Someone please join a club and beat their Webmaster over the head with it.
These lofty goals - among others - will be achieved through a public Web portal intended to serve as a “one-stop-shop“ for clinical trial information from all over Earth!
Wednesday, July 06, 2005
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I once read a review of the PPC-6600 that billed it as a viable alternative to a laptop for a “power user.” Assuming I qualify as the latter, the PPC-6600 isn't the former. It's not bad, but it's not great; it's the Treo 300 of its generation.
Sunday, March 05, 2006
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'nuff said.
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