A GP has voiced her concerns about the NHS's controversial new system for collecting and analysing data, Care.data, questioning why the health service needs to obtain so much data from the UK's citizens. Dr. Jane Lothian, GP and medical ...
The National Security Agency (NSA) is harvesting data from contact lists of millions of personal email and instant messenger accounts from across the globe, according to documents leaked by whistleblower Edward Snowden. The latest Prism ...
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IBM Research has unveiled two new Watson-related cognitive technologies that are expected to help physicians make more informed and accurate decisions faster and to cull new insights from electronic medical records (EMR). The projects ...
The idea that cloud computing providers could suffer as a result of the US National Security Agency's (NSA) policy of obtaining data from web companies as part of its Prism surveillance programme is a "red herring", argues Bobby Soni, chief ...
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Facebook and Yahoo have asked the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) for permission to publish details of national security requests they receive from the US government for user data. In a policy statement on Tumblr, Yahoo's ...
The US government made 12,444 requests for data about 40,322 Yahoo users, the web firm has revealed in its first annual transparency report. The report marks a more detailed account of what world governments have requested from Yahoo, ...
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The National Security Agency (NSA) has tapped into the networks of Google, Brazilian oil firm Petroleo Brasileiro SA, and systems operated by France's foreign ministry, according to leaked US documents. The documents were aired by ...
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Natus Neurology has received 510(k) clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and Health Canada clearance for its new electrodiagnostic system, the UltraPro S100 EMG system. The UltraPro S100 is an EMG/nerve conduction ...
The NHS has announced that, from 2014, all NHS Trusts and providers must use patient NHS numbers as the primary identifier. The move - which seems simple, but could save a huge amount of unnecessary paperwork - means medical records can ...
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A day after breaking an almost year-long silence on a medical condition that had affected the way he speaks, Google co-founder Larry Page said Wednesday that people should be more open about their medical histories. "I just disclosed ...
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GOOGLE has announced new features for online games, maps and search, a new music-streaming service and enhancements to its Google Plus social network, including tools for editing and sharing photos. The announcements were made at the ...
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services wants health tech developers in Silicon Valley to make greater use of its data to help make advances in the field and aid entrepreneurs in the region. The effort is part of a larger ongoing ...
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Tactio Health Group has introduced TactioDiabetes, a diabetes management tool that is used to track glucose / A1C tracking, medication tracking, insulin adjustments, carb to insulin ratio, diabetes specific health coaching and many more. ...
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HIPAA and outdated communications devices can make it harder to deliver effective patient care, according to a survey of physicians, hospital administrators and IT pros. The survey by the Ponemon Institute is based on responses from 577 ...
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Wacom today announced the DTK-2241 interactive pen display, a premium communication tool designed to streamline the electronic documents workflow within education, healthcare and business settings. The successor to the DTU-2231, the new ...