Monday, February 25th, 2008
Houston's own University General Hospital places its commitment to patient safety at the forefront in making decisions regarding design and technology. Against the backdrop of a dramatic increase in the number of hospital medication errors in the last fifteen years, University General mitigates the risk of such events with an ...
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Saturday, February 23rd, 2008
A rapid way to spot insider threats from individuals within an organization such as a multinational company or military installation is reported in the current issue of the International Journal of Security and Networks. The technology uses data mining techniques to scour email and build up a picture of social ...
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Saturday, February 23rd, 2008
E-mail access to one's surgeon has can improve doctor-patient communication. Additionally, this seems to occur without affecting levels of patient satisfaction. This was reported on February 18, 2008 in Archives of Surgery, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.
write the authors. E-mail has influenced industries worldwide, including banking and retail, but there ...
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Saturday, February 23rd, 2008
Google and the Cleveland Clinic have partnered to launch a pilot program that will begin to store online the personal health records of patients, a "long-awaited health service that's likely to raise more concerns about the volume of sensitive information entrusted" to Google, the AP/Austin American-Statesman reports. The program will ...
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Friday, February 22nd, 2008
GE Healthcare announced that Memorial Hospital North is the first healthcare institution to deploy ApexPro® FH, a spread-spectrum frequency hopping telemetry system, on its CARESCAPE™ Enterprise Access™ in-building wireless platform. The solution provides the hospital with a single, integrated, wireless platform that enables critical patient data to be securely coordinated, ...
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Friday, February 22nd, 2008
A team of academic, industry and independent researchers has demonstrated a new class of computer attacks that compromise the contents of "secure" memory systems, particularly in laptops.
The attacks overcome a broad set of security measures called "disk encryption," which are meant to secure information stored in a computer's permanent memory. ...
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Friday, February 22nd, 2008
Good ideas can have drawbacks. When information is freely shared, good ideas can stunt innovation by distracting others from pursuing even better ideas, according to Indiana University cognitive scientist Robert Goldstone.
"How do you structure your community so you get the best solution out of the group?" Goldstone said. "It turns ...
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Friday, February 22nd, 2008
University of Michigan scientists and their colleagues at the National Institute on Aging have produced the largest and most detailed worldwide study of human genetic variation, a treasure trove offering new insights into early migrations out of Africa and across the globe.
Like astronomers who build ever-larger telescopes to peer deeper ...
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Friday, February 22nd, 2008
NASA's space shuttle Atlantis, which successfully delivered ESA's Columbus laboratory to the International Space Station, has safely returned to Earth with its crew of seven. Landing was at 14:07 UTC (15:07 CET) on 20 February at Kennedy Space Center, Florida.
On this STS-122 mission, the shuttle spent nearly 13 days in ...
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