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

An article that looks at the issues raised when too much health information is made available to people.

Electronic Frontiers Australia present a paper to explain the failure of the Australian proposed Access to Health ID Card. This summary documents the issues and reasons for why it was abandoned.

"Articles and resources about trends and issues relating to electronic health records in Australia."

A factual recall of what electronic health records system is being used in the UK

A recent news article on the introduction of Electronic Medical Records being used in the UK. Page also links to other related articles on BBC News

An introduction to Microsofts Medical Records solution

A learning centre that explains Microsoft's solution to storing medical records

An example of technology used to support people in the community

SiSi (say it sign it) uses speech recognition to animate an aviator. Will allow for automatic signing e.g. for meetings, TV programs.

A Lifelike Prosthetic Arm, By Michael Rosenwald - May/June 2009 \nA new surgical technique, developed by scientists at the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago, allows patients who have lost arms to use residual nerve signals to control a prosthetic limb. This video shows three patients testing a prototype limb being developed by DARPA. The patients can perform complex tasks, including picking up a cup, grasping a cracker without breaking it, and putting a spoon in a cup. \n

A man who lost both of his arms in an accident is getting some high-tech help with an innovative artificial limb that controls movements by thought. \n

"Hospital patients are used to wearing wristbands. But now those bands have gone high-tech."

"Charity backs dementia taggings. The number of dementia sufferers is predicted to soar Proposed nelectronic tagging of people with dementia, with their agreement, has been backed by a charity."

Using RFID tags to track IVF samples

PACs enables images of x-rays and scans to be stored electronically for diagnosis

Playing computer games such as the Nintendo Wii can improve a surgeon's performance

Monitoring of patients in the home