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Barbara Stefanics

Stanford Hospital Patients' Private Data Was Posted Online - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    "A medical privacy breach led to the public posting on a commercial Web site of data for 20,000 emergency room patients at Stanford Hospital in Palo Alto, Calif., including names and diagnosis codes, the hospital has confirmed. The information stayed online for nearly a year. "
Madeleine Brookes

Stanford Hospital Contractor Leaks 20,000 Patient Records to Public Website - Security ... - 1 views

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    "Stanford Hospital discovered last month that a contractor had posted a private database containing medical records of 20,000 patients to a public homework assistance Website in search of help on how to create bar graphs."
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    A number of issues are raised here: lack of policies, privacy, security. Also combines technologies: use of databases to create examples of charts in spreadsheets; medical records. It's a great article to build on some terms/technologies and introducing more.
Barbara Stefanics

The hospital computer that predicts if your time is up - BBC News - 1 views

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    A hospital in Boston is using artificial intelligence to revolutionise the way care is provided in its emergency department.
Madeleine Brookes

IPad management, security crucial in hospital tablet roll out - PC Advisor - 1 views

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    Uses many technical terms to help understand MAC address and security of wireless network
Madeline Brownstone

Doctor and Patient - Texting as a Health Tool for Teenagers - NYTimes.com - 1 views

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    "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. "
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    An older article, but relevant nonetheless.
Carol Hancox

BBC NEWS | Health | 'Tagging' improves patient safety - 2 views

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    "Hospital patients are used to wearing wristbands. But now those bands have gone high-tech."
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    Also good for Paper 2 (6.0_paper_2)
Sandra Stark

Telehealth Devices Monitor Patient Information at Home - NYTimes.com - 1 views

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    As an aging population threatens to overwhelm the nation's hospitals and doctors, thousands of seriously ill patients are relying on computerized health trackers to help keep them safe at home.
Sandra Stark

Smarter Than You Think - The Boss Is Robotic, and Rolling Up Behind You - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    Mobile robots are now being used in hundreds of hospitals nationwide as the eyes, ears and voices of doctors who cannot be there in person. They are being rolled out in workplaces, allowing employees in disparate locales to communicate more easily and letting managers supervise employees from afar. And they are being tested as caregivers in assisted-living centers.
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