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Telemedicine in Clinical Trials Highlighted At Upcoming Conferences
...At the Mobile and Clinical Trials Conference on September 10 and the 4th annual Dpharm: Disruptive Innovations in Clinical Trials Conference September 11-12, panelists will describe how telemedicine technology from AMC Health, a pioneer in providing telemedicine solutions for clinical trials, is being used to overcome these limitations...
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Telemedicine Will Be The Norm As Care Shifts Towards Patients
After nearly half a century advocating for the adoption of remote care, Dr. Jay Sanders, often dubbed the “Father of Telemedicine,” knows a thing or two about using technology to enhance the doctor-patient relationship.
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Tennessee Department of Health Selects DSS vxVistA as Statewide EHR
DSS, Inc., announced today that the Tennessee Department of Health (TDH) has selected its electronic health record (EHR), vxVistA, as part of the state’s Electronic Public Health Information (EPI) initiative to adopt a statewide EHR, replace selected functionality of the current Patient Tracking Billing Management Information System (PTBMIS) and facilitate interoperability with TDH public health delivery systems.
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Testing A $35 Firefox OS Phone—How Bad Could It Be?
...While you're sitting there using your Internet-enabled device to read about some other Internet-enabled device, it's easy to forget that the majority of people doesn't have any access to the Internet at all. The "World Wide" Web is actually not that worldwide—only about one-third of the population is online...
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Texas Transplantation Society 1st In U.S. To Offer Access To Transplant Library
Evidence based practice is a fundamental duty of any profession. This site is aimed at the international transplant community and Texas Transplantation Society now joins the European Society for Organ Transplantation, British Transplant Society, Brazilian Society for Organ Transplantation, Canadian Society of Transplantation, International Pediatric Transplant Association and the Transplant Nurses Association, in gaining access to this valuable resource...
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Text Messaging: Enhancing Clinical Trial Patient Recruitment And Enrollment
There is a lot of new research that evaluates the impact of Short Messaging System (SMS, Text Messages) in healthcare settings, such as appointment reminders and medication adherence. Results have demonstrated that SMS intervention groups significantly improved patient behavioral outcomes; patients who received SMS reminders were more likely to show up to appointments on time,4 and patients who received SMS reminders were more adherent to medications.5...
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The $.30 Kit That Could End Malaria
It's an entirely preventable disease, and when diagnosed early, it's easily treatable. Yet Malaria still claims hundreds of thousands of lives each year...
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The $9 Billion Witness: Meet JPMorgan Chase's Worst Nightmare
Meet the woman JPMorgan Chase paid one of the largest fines in American history to keep from talking...
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The (Profitable) Potential For Open Health-Care Data
Despite the $20 billion taxpayer investment in health information technology, it still has not reached its full potential. Most offerings are not easy to use or properly integrated into the daily workflow of clinicians...
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The American Dream Is Dead In The South
The entire premise of the American Dream is that if you work hard, your life, or your childrens' lives, will be better. It's the promise that has brought immigrants to these shores for centuries, and it's the most frequently-touted line by Republicans who oppose social safety nets.
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The Amish Farmers Reinventing Organic Agriculture
By studying the immune systems of plants, [the Amish] developed a technique that eliminates the need for chemicals...
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The Biggest Cyberthreat To Companies Could Come From The Inside
A recent attack against Morgan Stanley that exposed hundreds of thousands of customer accounts was an inside job, a threat experts say is nearly impossible to stop...
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The Biohackers Will See You Now
The next generation of DIYBio tools are coming, and this time they mean business...
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The Brutal Bust In Next-Generation Biofuels In One Chart
The U.S. government finally faces the fact that we won't be powering our cars with corncobs any time soon.
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The CISPA-Zombie Won’t Die. Instead, It Changed Its Name To CISA And It’s Here To Violate Your Privacy.
On Tuesday, the Senate Intelligence Committee met in secret and approved the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act of 2014 (CISA)(S. 2588). The bill started out in bad shape, and privacy advocates across the country spoke out about our concerns...
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