Alan Bavley of McClatchy Newspapers writes: In large upright freezers, researchers at St. Luke’s Hospital are stashing tens of thousands of tiny tubes that will hold blood samples of up to 2,000 people. It’s a major project to study patients’ medical charts and look for the genes and blood proteins that put people with diabetes…
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245 computers stolen from 19 universities in Japan
The Yomiuri Shimbun reports: […] The Metropolitan Police Department began investigating the case after computers were stolen from the science and engineering departments of prestigious universities in Tokyo, including Tokyo and Waseda universities. The MPD then learned that a total of 245 computers had been stolen from 19 universities since September 2006. In Tokyo, 16…
Health IT execs mull fixes on health record privacy
Maureen McKinney writes in Government Health IT: Health information technology executives this week called for the development and dissemination of a more lucid set of policies on consumer access to health records in order to allay public fears that using a personal health record would put their health privacy at risk. In a Web conference…
Privacy shield crucial for online health records (opinion)
Dr. Deborah Peel of PatientPrivacyRights.org writes in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution: […] Now America is on the threshold of entering the digital era of health record keeping. Google and Microsoft have just introduced health record keeping software. Congress is considering standards to make health record systems interoperable, allowing easy access to records using different software and…
NCCN Conference Offers a Peek into Internet Medicine’s Future
A press release from the National Comprehensive Cancer Network: Soon the Internet may hold your medical record where you and your doctor can access it at all hours. Even if you are undergoing a complicated chemotherapy regimen, your computer may prompt you to follow doctor’s orders and, via a daily questionnaire, alert your doctor to…
The real holy grail of medicine
Michael Evans writes in the Globe and Mail: I don’t often quote George Bush, but he was right when he pointed out in a 2006 presidential discussion on health care that “doctors practice 21st-century medicine, but they still have 19th-century filing systems.” Patients often wonder, “How come the Instabank in Istanbul tells me exactly how…