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MG Ayoub

Mobile Health 2012 | Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project - 0 views

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    Fully 85% of U.S. adults own a cell phone. Of those, 53% own smartphones. One in three cell phone owners (31%) have used their phone to look for health information. In a comparable, national survey conducted two years ago, 17% of cell phone owners had used their phones to look for health advice.
Régis Barondeau

New System for Patients to Report Medical Mistakes - NYTimes.com - 0 views

  • The Obama administration wants consumers to report medical mistakes and unsafe practices by doctors, hospitals, pharmacists and others who provide treatment.
  • “Currently there is no mechanism for consumers to report information about patient safety events.”
  • “Patient reports could complement and enhance reports from providers and thus produce a more complete and accurate understanding of the prevalence and characteristics”
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  • Reporting is voluntary, and federal officials said they would keep the information confidential.
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    The Obama administration wants consumers to report medical mistakes and unsafe practices by doctors, hospitals, pharmacists and others who provide treatment.
Régis Barondeau

US State Department Has Started Using Google Chrome - 0 views

  • Clinton said that the State Department would start deploying Google’s Chrome browser to all of its offices. Google Chrome started being installed on computers on February 14th.
  • This is a huge opportunity for Google to gets it products used by government officials, as it hopes to get major departments in the US government to use its Google Apps suite for email, documents, and calendars. Getting this many officials to use its browser is a definite first step to become to go-to option for the government.
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