Posts Tagged ‘medical records’
Tissue donors deserve to know ‘moral risk’
MICHIGAN STATE (US) — People who contribute tissue to biobanks have a right to basic information about how their donations may be used, an ethicist argues in a new paper. Continue…
Tuesday, January 29, 2013 9:20 - 0 Comments
Health & Medicine - Jan 11, 2013 9:34 - 0 Comments
Wave of the hand pulls up patient records
PURDUE (US) — Doctors may soon be using a gesture-recognition system in the operating room that identifies hand gestures to browse and display images of the patient. (more…)
Health & Medicine - Nov 29, 2012 16:06 - 0 Comments
More stress injuries as e-record use grows
CORNELL / DUKE (US) — The expanded use of electronic medical records may reduce errors, but will also significantly boost the number of computer-related injuries suffered by doctors and nurses. (more…)
Health & Medicine - Feb 23, 2011 10:52 - 0 Comments
Chemotherapy at its creation
YALE (US) — Medical records of the first patient to receive intravenous chemotherapy for cancer offer insight not only into how much the treatment has changed, but also how much it has remained the same. (more…)
Health & Medicine - Aug 24, 2009 4:00 - 2 Comments
Hackers looking at your health records?
“”We regulate drugs, transportation, communication, food, and many other goods and services,” says law professor Sharona Hoffman. “A safe and effective transition to computerized medical records cannot be achieved without federal regulation.”
Health & Medicine - Jul 13, 2009 12:30 - 0 Comments
Some doctors keep patients in the dark
CORNELL (US)—A new analysis shows that physicians failed to report clinically significant abnormal test results to patients—or to document that they had informed them—in one out of every 14 cases of abnormal results. (more…)
