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Article | 16/09/2011 Mobile startups push health at Demo
Smartphones can help make people healthier, according to three startups that stood out among young mobile companies presenting their ideas at the Demo...
Article | 13/09/2011 IBM's Watson supercomputer to diagnose patients
Watson, IBM's game-show playing supercomputer, will soon try its hand at assisting physicians in the WellPoint health care plan in diagnosing and trea...
Article | 9/09/2011 FTC: No, your smartphone can't heal acne
Smartphones can help you record video clips, compose music and find the nearest Ethiopian restaurant, but they can't cure acne, the U.S. Federal Trade...
Article | 25/08/2011 EHR use by doctors will foster personal health record uptake
A lack of electronic medical data from doctors, complicated setup processes and the static nature of personal health records (PHRs) have caused U.S. c...
Article | 17/08/2011 Fired techie created virtual chaos at pharma company
Logging in from a Smyrna, Georgia, McDonald's restaurant, a former employee of a U.S. pharmaceutical company was able to wipe out most of the company'...
Article | 5/08/2011 Healthcare industry leads market in IT hiring
Flush with federal funds and under the gun of federal regulatory deadlines, the healthcare industry is leading the market in IT jobs creation, accordi...
Article | 2/08/2011 Mitek extends check imaging tech to health care, insurance
Mitek Systems' Mobile Capture imaging software has long allowed banks to offer customers mobile banking capabilities. Now the company is turning the t...
Article | 2/08/2011 10 questions for RemitData CFO Joel K. Wood
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Article | 24/06/2011 Microsoft looks to business tools for health care
Craig Mundie, Microsoft's chief research and strategy officer, demonstrated some applications on Thursday that apply current technologies to problems ...
Article | 4/06/2011 Can the iPad cure what ails us?
A neurology patient at a Texas hospital may soon find doctors handing him an iPad with game-like apps on it to test his motor skills. Nurses will be a...
Article | 2/06/2011 Bluetooth touts itself as the cancer-free wireless tech
If you're worried that your cellphone might be giving you cancer, the Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) has a solution for you: Use Bluetooth.
Article | 1/06/2011 Hospitals compete for IT talent with funding at stake
Health care providers in the U.S. are encountering a lack of qualified candidates as they race to meet federal government deadlines for EHR (electroni...
Article | 16/04/2011 20nm flash chip means more mobile-device features, smaller SSDs
By reducing its NAND flash chip size by as much as 40 per cent, Intel and Micron have opened the door for tablets and smartphone manufacturers to use ...
Article | 7/04/2011 Windows servers hacked at The Hartford insurance company
Hackers have broken into The Hartford insurance company and installed password-stealing programs on several of the company's Windows servers.
Article | 5/04/2011 The grill: Charles E. Christian
Charles E. Christian got his start in healthcare in the clinical arena, working in radiology before moving into IT. Today he's CIO of Good Samaritan H...