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Madeline Brownstone

Business & Technology | UW team researches a future filled with RFID chips | Seattle Ti... - 2 views

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    Potentially a lead article. Needs to be checked further.
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Open Ed at Creative Commons - 0 views

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    Open Source Education
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Dallas kids tracked for their own good * The Register - 0 views

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    More on the Dallas experiment with truancy problems being solved with GPS tracking devices.
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    More on the Dallas experiment with truancy problems being solved with GPS tracking devices.
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To Curb Truancy, Dallas Tries Electronic Monitoring - New York Times - 0 views

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    Big Brother tactics odly have found acceptance.
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    Big Brother tactics odly have found acceptance.
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The+Movie+Pirates - 0 views

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    Watch CBS television online. Find CBS primetime, daytime, late night, and classic tv episodes, videos, and information.
Madeline Brownstone

BlackBerry Spy Software Hits the Market | Reuters - 2 views

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    Can't be a good portfolio article because it is a product announcement.
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    Interesting software. BUT!! Can't be a good portfolio article because it is a product announcement.
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Shortcuts - Typing In an E-Mail Address, and Giving Up Your Friends' Too - NYTimes.com - 2 views

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    Contact Scraping to build user base of Tagged.com
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Trendsmap - Real-time local Twitter trends - 2 views

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    Awesome mashup.
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    Awesome mashup.
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Healthcare IT News - 0 views

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    Subscribe and get updates in healthcare IT news
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BBC NEWS | UK | Scotland | E-prescription system goes live - 0 views

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    Patients are still given paper prescriptions but these contain a unique barcode.
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    Patients are still given paper prescriptions but these contain a unique barcode.
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Expert: Technology fosters voyeurism - Washington Times - 0 views

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    It seems new personal video technology is having unintended consequences for our culture. Answer: Without a doubt. I work with a lot of adolescents, and one of the issues we are running into is the "sexting" or text-messaging of sexually explicit materials and pictures. In a lot of ways, it's raising or heightening the sexualized nature of adolescence.
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    It seems new personal video technology is having unintended consequences for our culture. Answer: Without a doubt. I work with a lot of adolescents, and one of the issues we are running into is the "sexting" or text-messaging of sexually explicit materials and pictures. In a lot of ways, it's raising or heightening the sexualized nature of adolescence.
Madeline Brownstone

Washington Times - Telemedicine allows for long-distance diagnoses - 3 views

  • While outwardly expensive — installation can range between $2.5 million and $3.5 million — and, to some, a seemingly excessive measure, the off-site support operation has shown itself in studies to be cost-effective in a relatively short period of time. Recovery of patients was faster, mortality rates in ICUs were lower, patients' stays were shorter, thereby shaving hospital costs by 24.6 percent, and fewer intensivists were needed.
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    The breakthrough is your mobile phone, the house call of tomorrow," says Dr. Jay Sanders, a protege of Dr. Bird, referring to the possibility of sending images from a high-tech personal digital assistant device.
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    The breakthrough is your mobile phone, the house call of tomorrow," says Dr. Jay Sanders, a protege of Dr. Bird, referring to the possibility of sending images from a high-tech personal digital assistant device.
Madeline Brownstone

VIDEO| Hospital's 'telemedicine' - 1 views

  • Staff at the Queen Victoria hospital in East Grinstead demonstrated their use of modern technology to the health minister Lord Darzi.
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      Humans and Machines--it's the best method for bridging distances
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    Staff at the Queen Victoria hospital in East Grinstead demonstrated their use of modern technology to the health minister Lord Darzi.
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    Staff at the Queen Victoria hospital in East Grinstead demonstrated their use of modern technology to the health minister Lord Darzi.
Madeline Brownstone

BBC - BBC World Service Programmes - Digital Planet, 04/11/2008 - 0 views

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    ACKLING GLOBAL CENSORSHIP Last week tech companies and human rights groups launched guidelines designed to tackle censorship. Google, Yahoo! and Microsoft have all been heavily criticised for their business strategy in countries such as China. All have signed up to the new Global Network Initiative which aims to promote privacy and freedom of speech on the internet.
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    ACKLING GLOBAL CENSORSHIP Last week tech companies and human rights groups launched guidelines designed to tackle censorship. Google, Yahoo! and Microsoft have all been heavily criticised for their business strategy in countries such as China. All have signed up to the new Global Network Initiative which aims to promote privacy and freedom of speech on the internet.
Madeline Brownstone

BBC NEWS | Technology | Who is responsible in the cloud? - 0 views

  • The Center for Democracy & Technology
  • Global Online Freedom Act (passed by a US Senate committee, but currently floating in legislative limbo), could actually become law.
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Center for Democracy & Technology - 0 views

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    Keeping the Internet Open, Innovative and Free
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    Keeping the Internet Open, Innovative and Free
Madeline Brownstone

BBC NEWS | UK | Wales | Mid Wales | Hospital £33m telemedicine boost - 4 views

  • "I will want to be reassured that the money has been distributed on the basis of clear clinical need rather than on a first come, first served basis."
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      Equality of Access
  • Telemedicine allows patients to attend one hospital and receive diagnoses in another through the use of technology.
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BBC NEWS | South Asia | Healing hearts by remote control - 5 views

  • "Technically speaking, in terms of disease treatment, the doctor has to touch the patient only when he has to operate.
  • "And if I don't need to operate, I don't need to touch the patient. If I don't need to touch the patient, I don't need to be there. I can be anywhere."
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    Very old article: I wonder what is going on now. It's hoped that from this start in Bangalore, telemedicine will grow and grow - a spectacular way of overcoming distance and time in tackling severe medical problems.
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    Very old article: I wonder what is going on now. It's hoped that from this start in Bangalore, telemedicine will grow and grow - a spectacular way of overcoming distance and time in tackling severe medical problems.
Madeline Brownstone

BBC NEWS | Technology | Free medical tool tackles disease - 3 views

  • Our mission is to build a health records system in support of direct patient care, on the ground for the very poorest of the poor,"
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      Equality of Access
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    The Open Medical Record System (OpenMRS) is providing countries, such as South Africa, with an online patient medical record system.
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    The Open Medical Record System (OpenMRS) is providing countries, such as South Africa, with an online patient medical record system.
Madeline Brownstone

BBC NEWS | Technology | Software maps Rwandan health - 4 views

  • The biggest challenge is to collect enough information to make the databases reliable.
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    A system of electronic mapping which allows many different types of data to be layered onto a single image is being used to improve healthcare across Rwanda. The digital maps, called Geographic Information Systems (GIS), are designed to compile information from numerous databases and use it to both track and predict outbreaks of disease.
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    A system of electronic mapping which allows many different types of data to be layered onto a single image is being used to improve healthcare across Rwanda. The digital maps, called Geographic Information Systems (GIS), are designed to compile information from numerous databases and use it to both track and predict outbreaks of disease.
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