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Interesting article on how our data can be locked up and trapped and maybe lost forever on different sites.

"This past month in the journal Pediatrics, researchers at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York published the results of a study showing that text messaging could significantly improve the rate of adherence among young liver transplant patients. Using a program called CareSpeak, the researchers issued text messages to a group of 41 pediatric liver transplant patients. The text messages reminded the patients to take their medications, which ranged from one to three different pills once or twice a day. "

An older article, but relevant nonetheless.

Good discussion of different types of card used throughout the world."Cards containing chips, called smart cards, simply cannot match something that's supposedly dumb and has been around since the 1970s: ordinary credit cards with magnetic stripes running across their backs. The dumb cards don't need a brain of their own: the network supplies the necessary smarts."

A series of varied expert systems that can be run as demos

Click on the EXSYS systems below to run a few examples illustrating many of the features and capabilities of Exsys Corvid. Some can be run either using the Exsys CORVID Servlet Runtime or as a Java Applet to see the difference in end user interface.

When a malaria research project in Uganda was expanded into a full-fledged malaria case-tracking effort across the country in 2006, health officials saw the move as a great opportunity to save lives... But after starting with such promise, the project quickly became mired in a series of technology shortcomings... It finally all came together this spring after the introduction of a few key high-tech tools -- a modern relational database, nine smartphones and a remote-access software application that was originally meant for a completely different use.

...help students flourish regardless of their learning differences using a variety of tools, educators created engaging lesson plans tailored for students with special needs.

A one stop shop to explain about e-prescriptions. Contains some embedded video clips to watch from several different stakeholders.

"February 11, 2009 - Here is the review for the new Amazon Kindle 2, Amazon's new e-book reader and the successor to the highly popular Amazon Kindle. This new e-book reader from Amazon is more lightweight, features more shades of grey and has a slightly different interface, better battery life and more memory for storing e-books. "

Tuesday was Super Bowl Media Day at Cowboys Stadium here, and while most of the NFL press corps was busy talking football with players and coaches, a different group of reporters was invited to talk about the technology behind this largest and most modern of pro sports venues.

IT systems for mobile phones

An nice illustration of the difference between the Waterfall model of development and the Agile model.