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RAND pushes remote care to ease health system demand
Like so many others who follow healthcare, researchers at RAND believe home-based technology, such as remote monitoring devices and telemedicine, have great potential to rein in healthcare costs and
Wireless, mobile products in short supply at massive Medica show
The massive Radiological Society of North America is underway in Chicago now--without your Chicago-based editor, who's not back from Thanksgiving travels yet--but the 60,000 people who visit that
German hospitals rely on conscientious objectors for cheap labor
Hospitals in Germany may lose a source of cheap labor if a proposal to abolish the draft is pushed through. Because Germany is under pressure to cut defense spending and modernize its armed forces,
Integrating images into PHRs often requires complex work-arounds
Lack of vendor support for the complex task of integrating radiology images into personal health records may be holding back wider health information exchange, if the experience of one German
WoHIT: Communication, information sharing called key to telemed success
Telemedicine has been an important part of radiology in Europe for more than a decade, and the technology has proven itself as a way of reaching patients in rural and remote areas, of increasing
U.S. Army tests telemedicine at remote outposts in Germany
The U.S. Army's Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany serves as kind of a hub for care for American service personnel in Europe and often is the destination of choice for wounded warriors
Bosworth sheds some light on a grand experiment
By now you know my feeling about untethered personal health records. It's not so much that I don't like PHRs, it's that I don't like the hype surrounding them. Untethered records--not tied to a
Germany halts smart-card program for security review
One of the largest deployments of healthcare smart cards in the world is on hold, pending review of the security and confidentiality of the program, which was intended to mobilize health data for 80
