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• Telemedicine Provides Cost Benefit to Monitoring Newborns

  According to a new study released in the Journal of Medical Internet Research, there was a big cost savings when low-risk newborn infants are tracked through a website instead of going through usual care, which included a return visit to the hospital within 48 hours of discharge.

  The research, [...]

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• Personal QR Codes Can Help First Responders

  When a first responder arrives on the scene of an emergency call and finds an unresponsive victim, it can be a very delicate, difficult situation. Little information about the patient can drastically increase the risk of medical error.

  That may change soon with the help of personal QR codes. When [...]

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• How Hospitals Can Use Twitter’s Vine App

  Twitter, the 140-character micro-blogging service, has recently released a new video-sharing application called Vine, where users can record motion and sound clips from iOS devices and upload them through the app to share on Twitter’s social network.

  What makes Vine different from other video-sharing services is that it [...]

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• How Hospitals Can Use Twitter’s Vine App

  Twitter, the 140-character micro-blogging service, has recently released a new video-sharing application called Vine, where users can record motion and sound clips from iOS devices and upload them through the app to share on Twitter’s social network.

  What makes Vine different from other video-sharing services is that it [...]

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• Going from Patient to E-Patient

  Have you found that technology and healthcare haven’t meshed well? Is getting a doctor to respond to email almost impossible? Is keeping online health records up-to-date like pulling teeth? Sadly, in an age of the web, wi-fi and social media, so-called e-health lags far behind compared to other industries.

  That [...]

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• Harmful Drug Reactions Gets Help from Automated Follow-Ups

  According to a new study performed in Canada, automated phone systems that send patients repeated reminders can help spot harmful drug reactions.

  In the study, researchers used a system called ISTOP-ADE. This automated system called patients three days after they received a prescription and again 17 days later.

  Of the [...]

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• Battling Autism with an iPad

  According to the advocacy organization, Autism Speaks and the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), Autism, affects one in 88 children and has become the fastest-growing serious developmental and communicative disability in the United States. Unfortunately, it receives less than 5 percent of the research funding of many less [...]

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• Track Your Individual Metabolism on Your Smartphone

  If you’ve ever dieted, you know how frustrating it can be to discover you haven’t lost any weight after a week of counting calories. Sure, you can always blame a poorly calibrated scale. But the lack of weight loss could be a matter of metabolism – we need to increase [...]

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• How Facebook’s Graph Search Can Influence Healthcare

  Facebook will be unveiling its new Graph Search in the coming weeks and months to all users. This new search tool will allow users to look up anything another user shared with them on Facebook, and allow others to find stuff that was shared with them, including any content set [...]

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• Mass Immunization Efforts Get Help of Mobile App

  A mobile app called HANDI is helping the U.S. Department Health & Human Services in mass immunization campaigns. Its purpose: to allow public health workers to register individuals, collect information and track immunizations, then transfer the data into necessary databases.

  HANDI, which stands for Hand-held Automated Notification for Drugs and Immunizations, [...]

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