Little Benefit Seen, So Far, in Electronic Patient Records – NYTimes.com
A new study comparing 3,000 hospitals at various stages in the adoption of computerized health records has found little difference in the cost and quality of care.
Reducing …
Police probe breach of NHS smartcard security as e-records launched in London | 16 Nov 2009 | ComputerWeekly.com
An NHS trust at the forefront of work on the £12.7bn NHS IT scheme has called in police after a breach of smartcard security compromi…
Indian police arrest company boss accused of selling medical records of British patients | Mail Online
The head of an Indian outsourcing company has been arrested for selling confidential medical records of patients treated at one of Britain’s top…
heise online – Umstrittenes RFID-Implantat für den Menschen
2004 sorgte ein amerikanisches Start-up für Schlagzeilen: VeriChip aus Florida brachte den ersten kommerziellen RFID-Transponder auf den Markt, der für die Implantation unter die Haut …
Private medical records for sale: Harley Street clinic patients’ files outsourced for computer input – and end up on black market | Mail Online
The confidential medical records of patients treated at one of Britain’s top private hospitals have b…
Fuzzy Math? Rising Costs in Government’s Digital Health Stimulus | The Huffington Post Investigative Fund
Creating digital medical records for every American within the next five years – a key provision of President Obama’s stimulus package –…
Data-Mining Medical Records Could Predict Domestic Violence | Wired Science | Wired.com
A group of researchers at Harvard University has created the first computer model to automatically detect the risk that a patient is being abused at home. The …
Die elektronische Gesundheitskarte: Risiken und Nebenwirkungen eines Megaprojekts | IQ – Wissenschaft und Forschung | Bayern 2 | BR
Die elektronische Gesundheitskarte wird mehr sein als eine reine “Versichertenkarte”, wie sie heute schon jeder Pat…
Jamie Heywood: Forget Medical Privacy
Jamie Heywood (…) hopes consumers will (…) share (their health) data with one another via online communities such as PatientsLikeMe, which he cofounded in 2004.
“We the people have the right to take posse…
Schweizer Fernsehen: SF Videoportal – ECO – Swisscom setzt auf Gesundheitsmarkt
«ECO» zeigt, wie die Swisscom mit der Gesundheit Geschäft machen will. Auf mehreren Ebenen versucht der Schweizer Telekomkonzern, im wachsenden Gesundheitsmarkt Fus…