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ER Doctors Use Google Glass And QR Codes To Identify Patients
A tech-savvy hospital in Boston developed a custom information-retrieval system for Google Glass, which lets ER doctors scan a QR code on the wall of each room to call up information about patients...
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Eric Holder's Lawless Legacy: Column
Eric Holder is reaping applause as his six-year reign as Attorney General comes to a close. But Holder's record is profoundly disappointing to anyone who expected the Obama administration to renounce the abuses of the previous administration...
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ERs Seeing Increase In Patients Under Obamacare
It wasn't supposed to work this way, but since the Affordable Care Act took effect in January, Norton Hospital has seen its packed emergency room become even more crowded, with about 100 more patients a month...
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ESA Mars Express HRSC Images Now Available Under A Creative Commons Licence
Following its arrival at the Red Planet in December 2003, imagery from ESA’s Mars Express mission has proved immensely popular, with the High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) on board the spacecraft playing a major role...
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ESN To Assist Booz Allen Hamilton In Information Technology Enhancements For The Department Of Veterans Affairs
Engineering Services Network, Inc. (ESN), a leading engineering and IT solutions company, announced today that it will be a subcontractor on a project to enhance the Department of Veterans Affairs' Office of Information & Technology Virtual Lifetime Electronic Record (VLER) Health Program...
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European Antibiotic Awareness Day Highlights Need For Urgent Action
Cubist Joining the Fight Against Antibiotic Resistance in the United Kingdom...
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European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) ChEMBL 20 incorporates the Pistoia Alliance’s HELM annotation
The European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) has released version 20 of ChEMBL, the database of compound bioactivity data and drug targets. ChEMBL now incorporates the Hierarchical Editing Language for Macromolecules (HELM), the macromolecular representation standard recently released by the Pistoia Alliance.
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European Healthcare IT Project Runs on Nexenta Open Source-Driven Software-Defined Storage (OpenSDS)
Nexenta (@Nexenta), the global leader in Open Source-driven Software-Defined Storage (OpenSDS), today announced that it has been chosen by Nordic Medtest, a Swedish healthcare IT project, to meet its demand for a safe, stable, flexible and high performing SAN solution. Nordic Medtest has a full range of testing services that help customers to develop, test and safely implement IT services in healthcare...The aim of the project is to provide an independent and open competence centre where healthcare organizations can develop, test and safely introduce new and innovative IT services in healthcare in cooperation with IT system and software suppliers.
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European Inventor Armed With Lab-On-A-Chip Fights Infectious Disease And Personalizes Skin Care
Some argue antimicrobial resistance (AMR), the ability of microbes to develop resistance to antimicrobial drugs, is a growing threat. Others say superbugs are already here, citing the increase in strains of antibiotic-resistant tuberculosis worldwide and the spread of staph infections...
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European Parliament To Weigh Open Source Pilots
Next Monday, the European Parliament's budget committee will consider a proposal from the Green/EFA group to pilot the use of open source encryption software, to be used by parliament members and their staff. The Green/EFA group is also asking to trial the use of open standards and open source to make available the EP's data available in machine-readable format...
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Even Cities Are Jumping On The Open Source Bandwagon
When most people think “open source” they think of software Github projects and hackers determined to code for the Greater Good. But it’s also a wholesale philosophy that can be applied to many aspects of society—like running a city...
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Everyone Wants To Stir The Meaningful Use Pot
When I cook a recipe for the first time, I usually don't modify it. But the next time around, I tend to tinker with it so it's better, more to my liking. Add a little garlic, reduce the salt. It's a learning process. I must be in good company, since it seems that everyone these days wants to tinker with the Meaningful Use program.
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Evolving Patient Rights In The Research And Delivery Of Health Care
...As the idea reached the proscenium this month at the Health Datapalooza, a conference founded by the US Department of Health and Human Services and now attracting more than 2,000 people, patient empowerment marks its entry into the mainstream...
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Exclusive: Controversial US scientist Creates Deadly New Flu Strain For Pandemic Research
...Yoshihiro Kawaoka of the University of Wisconsin-Madison has genetically manipulated the 2009 strain of pandemic flu in order for it to “escape” the control of the immune system’s neutralising antibodies, effectively making the human population defenceless against its reemergence...
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Exclusive: Dr. Farzad Mostashari On His Career, His New Startup And Closing Gaps In The Healthcare System
In June, Farzad Mostashari, MD, the former National Coordinator for Health IT, announced the launch a new company designed to partner with independent primary care physicians to form and join accountable care organizations...
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