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Vecna Designs Mobile Health Systems for Rural Care
Xconomy
How do you design an electronic health records interface for people who are computer illiterate? And for use in locations where electricity is scarce? Vecna Technologies, the Cambridge, MA-basedhealthcare IT and robotics company, is taking a crack at ...
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Govt releases guidelines on mobile towers health hazards
Zee News
An inter-ministrial committee (IMC) on electro-magnetic field (EMF) was constituted by Department of Telecom (DoT) to examine the health related concerns arising out ofmobile towers radiations. First Published: Friday, August 31, 2012, 09:20 ...
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The problems with BYOD
Government Health IT
In analyzing the healthcare-specific aspects of the survey, Dakin said he noticed some disturbing trends. For example, he said, while providers might have security systems in place to protect data on PCs, less than half had similar controls in place ...
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Mobile phones have more germs than a toilet seat
Daily Mail
Researchers from Which? swabbed 33 keyboards for food poisoning bugs e.coli, coliforms, staphylococcus aureus and enterobacteria and found four were a potentialhealth hazard. One was even 'condemned' because it was so infectious. Remote ...
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Daily Mail
Withings introduces WS-30 Wireless Scale and Health Companion app
The Verge
Withings has introduced a new wireless bathroom scale and mobile app combination in an attempt to challenge rival Fitbit. Building on the original Wi-Fi Body Scale, the Wireless Scale WS-30 offers a combination of Wi-Fi and Bluetooth connectivity ...
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Stage 2 meaningful use: Patient engagement and HIE
Government Health IT (blog)
HIMSS supports the development of guidelines to achieve transitions of care through patient centered mobile interfaces. We encourage consideration of including mobile health technology in future stages of meaningful use." Stage 2 criteria also place an ...
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Languages: Translating Health Content Without Borders
Global Voices Online (blog)
In another project, we are translating a mobile health app to train healthcare workers across East Africa which will also involve a mobile community where they can chat and exchange experiences. Much of this work takes place in TWB's first Healthcare ...
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Pasco's Mobile Medical Care Unit will make the rounds
Tampabay.com
Making the rounds: Pasco County's Mobile Medical Care Unit is a medical van that travels to homeless shelters and outreach centers to provide basic health care to the homeless (no Medicare or Medicaid recipients). Physicals and free prescriptions for ...
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Province defends mobile mammogram cut
CBC.ca
Provincial Health Minister David Wilson is defending the decision to pull two mobilemammography units off the road. One was withdrawn from service in the spring; the other will be sidelined at the end of the year, leaving just one mobile breast ...
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