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SPOTLIGHT: Twitter for sharing clinical data
Maybe Twitter is maturing after all. An article in the journal Telemedicine and e-Health proposes 10 specific ways the microblogging service could be used to collect and disseminate health... Read more...
Twitter finds a home in healthcare
Microblogging service Twitter is fast becoming a viable tool for real-time healthcare communication. What you lose in depth from the 140-character limit per message you gain in immediacy. In her... Read more...
Medicine's future may include wireless, real-time vitals
If live video in an ambulance can save the lives of seriously ill or injured patients, imagine how many lives could be saved with even earlier intervention--the instant there might be a problem.... Read more...
CDC turns to social, mobile media for swine flu updates
The outbreak of swine flu, otherwise known as the H1N1 virus, has pushed government agencies, particularly the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, to embrace all kinds of social media and... Read more...
