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Uly Lalunio

A New Web Tool to Take Control of Your Health - NYTimes.com - 1 views

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    "The national health care debate right now is all about giving more people affordable access to doctors and hospitals. Yet the vast majority of health care decisions - 80 percent or more, experts say - are really made by individuals, instead of medical professionals..."
Lisa Estrin

2 Brothers Await Broad Use of Medical E-Records - 1 views

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    Article about how I-Pads will make electronic patient records easier to use, less expensive, and eventually transform health care. Interesting to read after our online discussion about AI in informal learning- health communication and medical training.
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    I just posted something about iPads and this caught my eye. I think that this use of the iPad makes sense. There is really no existing technology (to my knowledge) out there that can mobilize patient records. Also, with the current trend of digitalising medical records, it seems like doctor offices will already have the necessary infrastructure available to push the Pad.
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    With the privacy concerns surrounding medical records, HIPPA legislation and the password security that is now required of personnel in hospitals to access medical records with ever changing password authentication tokens, I wonder if iPad wireless communication poses any risk to data being hijacked.
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    Cherie- I actually discussed this issue with a relative who is a doctor and he said that while his office is trying to switch to digital records, he is also concerned about privacy, increased government/insurance company regulation, and a disconnect in patient care/communication (looking down instead of talking to the patient). He also is concerned about time management with so many patients- the time it will take to record information on a tablet instead of the time he takes verbally recording patient information in just a few seconds.
Stephen Bresnick

Online Education: My Teacher Is an App - WSJ.com - 0 views

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    An estimated 250,000 students are enrolled in full-time virtual schools where their instruction and interaction is completely online. There are many benefits to this model: lower overhead, anywhere/anytime learning, meeting students where they are...yet the students in these full-time online schools consistently fall short of their peers in traditional schools. Gives us pause to consider what is lost in the online learning environment and what are the essential parts of face to face learning that cannot be replicated online..
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    This article contradicts one of my favorite quotes from ISTE 2011 - "The Killer App for 2011? The Teacher" I agree Steve, while it seems to be more and more the norm, economics shouldn't be a major determinant in alternatives to good education. Would they do the same for health care? Perhaps Siri can diagnose and prescribe treatment based on patient symptom input into an app?
Niko Cunningham

Libraries begin to rent out e-books - 0 views

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    More fears of publishers who hold the rights to intellectual property. Folks, you think health care is a big debate? Wait until our patent system changes - that will be a gladiator battle with everyone in the world (free and not free) participating... "As digital collections grow, Mr. Sargent said he feared a world in which "pretty soon you're not paying for anything." Partly because of such concerns, Macmillan does not allowits e-books to be offered in public libraries. Simon & Schuster, whose authors include Stephen King and Bob Woodward, has also refrained from distributing its e-books to public libraries. "We have not found a business model that works for us and our authors," said Adam Rothberg, a spokesman."
Jennifer Jocz

University World News - GLOBAL: Virtual simulation in classroom - 0 views

  • "It was funny because the [preference for Second Life] were in the female group, which means the females found the experience more useful than males; that is really interesting because we are working on a game-based approach and we tend to think that games are for boys and not for girls."
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      It would be interesting to investigate what aspects of the experience appealed to females.
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