Technology

What policies should hospitals and other facilities enact to educate staff on patient privacy in the age of Facebook and Twitter?

The diagnosis and treatment of complex diseases like heart failure needs to start long before the patient presents with symptoms.

Dell debuts the Aero, an Android-based smartphone with loads of memory and the ability to run simultaneous apps.

Evan Steele, CEO of SRSsoft, discuses his company's EMR.

How hard is it to digitize our health records?

On the afternoon of mHealth’s second day, one presentations really stood out and warranted some more reflection; it was the presentation of a social networking site for teens aimed at preventing/combating obesity. The site is called BodiMojo and the presenters were Tara Cousineau, PhD and Carol Torgan, PhD.

Day 2 at the mHealth conference in San Diego featured some discussion on Meaningful Use, EHRs, mobile applications, and much more.

After a well-informed morning session on day one at mHealth’s San Diego conference, the afternoon brought an intensified focus on SMS (otherwise known as text messaging) and how it can be used to benefit the health of patients.

A Valuable Way to Network and Share Ideas?

Though CCHIT will continue to certify EHRs for the ONC, they won't be the only organization doing so.

Engineers are creating a smartphone system that can monitor the brainwaves of people with epilepsy.

A new report is calling for radiologists to lead a collaborative effort to control overutilization of medical imaging services, a practice that exposes patients to unnecessary radiation and adds to healthcare costs.

The FDA finally addresses safety problems with these devices.

A new app for the iPhone provides physicians and nurses with mobile access to the reference information contained in the National Cancer Institute's Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events.

The use of EMRs in the patient-centered medical home can reduce diagnostic error and improve coordination, communication, and continuity of care.

A new iPhone app provides guidance to fourth-year medical students who find themselves faced with having to choose from among dozens, or hundreds, of residency programs.

Ohio State University researchers published a paper in Nature describing a new MRI technique that is capable of imaging the insides of micro-scale magnets, providing the highest ever resolution of magnetic fields.

Brief reviews of the top five dermatology apps for the iPhone and iPad for physicians.