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Medical Advances—Through Your iPhone?
From
Business Week, May 1, 2008
"...Researchers are beginning to understand how mobile phones can cut costs, help solve rural health-care problems, and even reduce medical errors..."
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Weight-Loss Gadgets Go High Tech
From
NBC11, northern California, May 15, 2007
"...The weight-loss gadget industry is as old as human vanity, with practitioners both well-meaning and profit-seeking making billions of dollars from it..."
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Personal Digital Assistants: Practical Advice for Clinicians in 2007
From
medscape, April 4, 2007 (If you aren't a member of the Medscape community, click here to sign up for free.)
"...Much has changed in the world of personal digital assistants (PDAs) since I last wrote on this topic..."
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Study: PDAs Might Help Diabetics Control Diet
From
ihealth.org, May 26, 2006
"...PDAs might help diabetics follow a low glycemic index diet, a complex eating plan that could potentially help control blood sugar, according to a new study..."
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PDAs Expected to Change Healthcare in Future
From
Medscape.com, September 29, 2005
"...Personal digital assistants (PDAs) could change the way healthcare is delivered in the future by providing doctors with easy access to patient data and the latest information on treatment...."
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A call to fitness: Cellphone applications put diet and workout info at your fingertips
From
The Chicago Tribune, March 27, 2005
"...a health-conscious consumer can count on his wireless provider to make an inanimate object into a
type of wireless workout buddy that he can use when exercising or watching his diet...."
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New Online Resource for Medical Professionals Debuts
From
brighthand.com, March 24, 2005
"Unbound Medicine in partnership with Merck & Co. has introduced a new version of MerckMedicus,
which provides medical information to physicians and other healthcare professionals...."
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Cedars-Sinai Doctors Cling to Pen and Paper
From
The Washington Post, March 21, 2005
"It was a dirty little secret among the nurses. A veteran physician at the prestigious Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
here had been mixing up a certain drug dosage for decades...."
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Bush pushes computerized medical records:
President says technology would reduce cost and errors
From
MSNBC, January 27, 2005
"President Bush said Thursday that the medical industry is behind the times, using paper and pen for many records
and prescriptions when computerized records could reduce cost and errors...."
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Smartphones, PDAs Finding their Voices
From
PDA Street, August 13, 2004
"Although it's taken a long time to get here, PDAs and smartphones finally have enough processing
power to implement accurate voice control and speech recognition—that doesn't require training...."
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Using nutrition technology to feed data-hungry managers
From
Nursing Homes Magazine, July 2004
"Application of information technology (IT) to nutrition in long-term care
is increasing as providers strive to offer better customer service and positive
nutritional outcomes while maintaining and improving daily operations...."
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A Public Display of Adoption
From
Bio-IT World, April 16, 2004
"PalmOne's director of healthcare sales explains why clinical trials are driving sales of handheld devices..."
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Interest in PDA Upgrades Still Strong Despite Lagging Market
From
In-Stat/MDR, January 15, 2004
"While the PDA market continued to struggle at the end of 2003, according to a recent
survey by In-Stat/MDR (http://www.instat.com), this does not mean that the industry is
not moving forward..." read more...
Highlights from the Consumer Electronics Show
From
Brighthand.com, January 8, 2004
"...This is one of the largest tradeshows in the world and
numerous companies are taking the opportunity to introduce
new handheld-related products..."
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PDA Predictions for 2004
From
Brighthand.com, January 1, 2004
"This year is going to be a momentous one for the handheld market.
Both the Palm OS and Pocket PC operating systems will get significant
upgrades, and there will be some welcome improvements in hardware, too..."
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Technology Can Prevent Errors
From The Washington Post, November 21, 2003
"The Institute of Medicine yesterday called for hospitals and
physicians to adopt electronic record-keeping systems that would
prevent tens of thousands of fatal medical errors a year and form
the basis for a nationwide flow of patient information among
practitioners and medical facilities." read more...
What do you get when you merge Palm with Handspring?
palmOne, Inc. is the official new company name for the company that sells Palm hardware. PalmSource
continues to be the company that sells Palm software.
For more information, visit the PalmOne Web site. Click
here for the press release.
What's new with Sony?
Read about the latest Sony Clie.
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