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in title, tags, annotations or urlMob appeal for teens: 'It builds them up' | Philadelphia Daily News | 03/26/2010 - 0 views
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""One group sends a Facebook message to another group to tell them to meet them there, and then they tell everybody else to come," the student added. Not surprisingly, teens say there are a lot of adult misconceptions about the flash mob. For one thing, none of the teens involved used that terminology. "Well, so far as I know, we get these mass text, or Facebooks or tweets telling us all come meet down South Street. But it's not for, you know, mobbing; it's to like have fun," said Kiki Adams, a Philadelphia high school senior who was at the mayhem on South Street. "But you know teenagers," she added. "They get out of control. One person start actin' up so everybody else feel like OK we can do it." The senior confirmed what other teens have also been saying, that the groups involved in the mob incidents have been previously unknown neighborhood party groups with names like AAS - All Adidas S---, or A.B.M. - All About Money - or the Platter Boyz. The groups, which have their own hoodies and post videos on YouTube.com, compete to see who can have the biggest parties or quarrel over boasts or taunts posted online, or "cyber chatting.""
Electronic health records raise doubt - The Boston Globe - 11 views
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"Google Health and others in the fast-growing personal health record business say they are offering a revolutionary tool to help patients navigate a fragmented healthcare system, but some doctors fear that inaccurate information from billing data could lead to improper treatment."
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This case study tackles the issues of Integrity and Reliability. The article talks about inaccurate health records and it effect on patients who want to follow updates on their health status. The stakeholders in this articles are patients because they are the ones who need accurate information, doctors because patients come to them when they read inaccurate information about their health and the people who control the information in the databases because they are the ones responsible for whether or not the information is accurate. Integrity is an appropriate Social and Ethical Issue because the information in the databases have a been changed accidentally, in turn affecting accuracy. Reliability is even better because is directly about accuracy of data, if it is entered incorrectly. If data is entered wrong patients lose trust in them. This is especially relevant to databases which is the major IT system discussed in this article. In relation to the case study it is important to find a solution for the patients of Africa, that is as efficient as possible. In a place like the one described in the study it is important to save time by being as accurate as possible and making sure that patents and doctors can understand the information on databases, ensuring more successful treatments for the patients.
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In the East African city, the medical facilities all contain databases that their patient's health records are recorded on, however the platform for each database varies between each clinic and the main hospital. This in turn makes it more difficult to exchange health records between each clinic and the main hospital.This article brings up a solution to the health records exchange problem that are within this East African Region. Google Health is a database that is in the cloud and makes it possible to exchange health records through the internet. This form of exchanging data for a patient helps to keep a patient's data up to date. Now though this could be a great solution it comes with many drawbacks from the system and the lacking materials from the East African region makes it difficulty to better utilize it.
Doctor and Patient - Are Doctors Ready for Telemedicine? - NYTimes.com - 18 views
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"For over a decade now, health care experts have been promoting telemedicine, or the use of satellite technology, video conferencing and data transfer through phones and the Internet, to connect doctors to patients in far-flung locales. But are doctors ready for this form of technology?"
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BBC NEWS | South Asia | Healing hearts by remote control - 5 views
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"Technically speaking, in terms of disease treatment, the doctor has to touch the patient only when he has to operate.
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S/E Issue- Reliability Telemedicine allows a doctor to diagnose patients through a television screen by viewing the problem and listening to the patients and local doctors speak about their problem. A question of reliability comes up; to what extent can telemedicine be an accurate way for diagnosing patients?
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"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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Telemedicine began here two years ago, with the realisation that most of India's specialist doctors live in a small number of large cities - but also, that most of the time, diseases do not actually require surgery.
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IT system- Telemedicine
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In Bangalore India, doctors have been using telemedicine to connect to parts of rural India. Telemedicine is being used to diagnose patients and give advice as to how to deal with certain medical conditions. Many poor and illiterate people living in rural areas rely on telemedicine. Is this really as reliable?
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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.
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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.
Schools creating new rules for social networking policies - USATODAY.com - 2 views
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"beginning of the academic year warning them of social networking issues. Source: Individual schools * Share * Yahoo! Buzz * Add to Mixx * Facebook * Twitter * More o Fark o Digg o Reddit o MySpace o StumbleUpon o Propeller o LinkedIn * Subscribe * myYahoo * iGoogle * More o Netvibes o myAOL * By Kyle Oppenhuizen, USA TODAY More college athletic departments are developing or publicizing online social networking policies for student athletes, experts say. USA TODAY researched social networking policies for 27 schools in six major conferences, including the University of Iowa, which will implement a new monitoring policy Friday. Last fall, pictures emerged on Facebook of two 19-year old Hawkeye football players holding cash and liquor bottles. Five of these schools already have specific monitoring policies in effect - Auburn, Iowa State, Ohio State, Miami and North Carolina. Others warn athletes of the potential dangers of sites such as Facebook and MySpace through student-athlete handbook policies, meetings, coach's discussions and even letters. Some schools don't have a specific policy but allow coaches to monitor at their discretion, or take action if inappropriate material online is reported. Iowa's policy puts senior leaders in charge of monitoring profiles of athletes' on their team and bring problems to administrators, who then work with the athlete, associate athletic director Fred Mims said. Administrators will not get involved, Mims said, unless issues are brought to their attention, in which case they will talk to the athlete about addressing the issue and check out the profile, public or private. Ohio State, on the other hand, requires athletes to have a public profile or add coaches and administrators as friends (which gives access to the private profile). Fred Stutzman, a Ph.D. cand
Technology News: Handheld Devices: Road Warning: Swarms of Texting Teens Ahead - 1 views
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"Textecution, for example, is an app for the Android platform that uses GSP technology to disable a phone's text function when the device is traveling more than 10 miles per hour. Jonathan Young, developer of Textecution, told TechNewsWorld he originally thought up the app when his teenage son was getting ready to get his driver's license. "This is a huge problem, and parents are finally becoming aware of it," he said. "Sure, you can preach to your children, but what they do when they are not around you is another "
Clinton Urges Global Response to Internet Attacks - NYTimes.com - 0 views
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"Mrs. Clinton also identified Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Tunisia, Vietnam and Uzbekistan as countries that constrain Internet freedom or persecute those who use the Web to circulate unpopular ideas. She pointed to an Egyptian blogger, Bassem Samir, who was in the audience at the Newseum in Washington for Mrs. Clinton's speech and had been imprisoned by Egyptian authorities."
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How far can a nation go to block information the Internet? What methods are being used? Is it working? What are the consequences?
BBC News - Ministers offer concessions on copyright changes - 0 views
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"Critics said the proposed powers were disproportionate and would damage one of the UK's fast-growing industries. Section 17 of the bill, which has attracted the most anger, would give ministers "reserve powers" to draft fresh laws to tackle net-based copyright infringement without needing parliamentary approval. Ministers argued that such powers were needed to support copyright laws against future, more technically advanced forms of piracy. "
Activists utilizing Twitter, Web proxies to sidestep Iranian censorship - The Boston Globe - 0 views
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Derek Lowe and his Iranian-born wife were appalled by the violence that came in the wake of Iran’s disputed presidential election, and by the Tehran government’s attempts to censor news of the upheavals. And so they joined the protest, as best they could from their home in Acton. They decided to become members of the legion of Internet activists fighting the Iranian government’s aggressive attempts at post-election censorship. Armed with their computers and Internet access, they are helping Iranian protesters get the words and images out of their country for the world to see.
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"Derek Lowe and his Iranian-born wife were appalled by the violence that came in the wake of Iran's disputed presidential election, and by the Tehran government's attempts to censor news of the upheavals. And so they joined the protest, as best they could from their home in Acton. They decided to become members of the legion of Internet activists fighting the Iranian government's aggressive attempts at post-election censorship. Armed with their computers and Internet access, they are helping Iranian protesters get the words and images out of their country for the world to see."
Facebook's privacy revision in hot water - 0 views
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"The debate surrounding the new Facebook privacy settings has been raging in the electronic community since its roll-out earlier this month. As Facebook stands to gain better ground with search engines thanks to the privacy adjustments, a plethora of privacy advocate groups have taken a critical look at the changes which allow for more user information to be made public. While many stronger privacy settings were put in place by Facebook, allowing for greater controls by the user, the ACLU and others argue that some important information is no longer optional to divulge, thus creating a breach of consumer privacy protection in their opinion. Profile pictures, location and gender are now among the settings that have gone from optional to mandatory settings available for everyone to see."
Facebook Rolls Out New Privacy Settings - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com - 0 views
BBC NEWS | Technology | Workers 'stealing company data' - 1 views
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"The industry has concentrated on the protection of the containers where the data is stored like firewalls, access, controls and end point security systems. "The end result is that most security teams are protecting the containers not the data itself. And that is a core flaw in the security methodology of many practitioners today," claimed Mr Rowney.
BBC NEWS | Business | Bosses 'should embrace Facebook' - 1 views
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""In today's difficult business environment, the instinctive reaction can be to batten down the hatches and return to the traditional command-and-control techniques that enable managers to closely monitor and measure productivity. "Allowing workers to have more freedom and flexibility might seem counter-intuitive, but it appears to create businesses more capable of maintaining stability." "
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An interesting twist on using social networking in the workplace
BBC NEWS | UK | Hi-tech tool spots child drinkers - 0 views
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The supermarket chain Budgens has installed face recognition cameras in one of its stores to stop children buying alcohol and cigarettes. It is thought to be the first time a UK retailer has used the technology to identify underage customers.
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The supermarket chain Budgens has installed face recognition cameras in one of its stores to stop children buying alcohol and cigarettes. It is thought to be the first time a UK retailer has used the technology to identify underage customers.
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