Health Care Integration
I just read a piece in CIO Magazine entitled “Health-Care Integration May Be an Expensive Prescription“. The story talks about a bill proposed by Senator Edward Kennedy which would require that hospitals, doctors’ offices and insurance companies develop systems for sharing administrative and patient data. The story says that experts in health-care IT “are leery” […]
Third Age Media Video and Audio Clips
Third Age Media has produced a series of mini-documentary videos about senior citizens rediscovering interests and exploring new careers. These videos have been converted by IBM from a VHS video tape to Bamba and Bamba for Java streaming multimedia files. Bamba is an IBM technology for streaming audio and video to your PC over the […]
A healthy selection of top health sites
Health Sites Here is a great list of Health sites that appeared in USA Today in a special report. Adam (www.adam.com) AMA Health Insight(www.ama-assn.org/ama) Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (www.cdc.gov) Drug Infonet (www.druginfonet.com) Hardin Meta Directory (www.lib.uiowa.edu/hardin/) HealthAnswers.com (healthanswers.com) Health Central (healthcentral.com) Healthfinder (healthfinder.gov) InteliHealth (intelihealth.com) Mayo Clinic Health Oasis (www.mayoclinic.com/) MedHelp International (www.medhelp.org) […]
Visible Human Project
A prisoner in Texas spent his life as a drug abuser, alcoholic, robber and killer. In 1993 the state of Texas injected him with lethal chemicals and took his life away. Through a federally funded project called “The Visible Human the prisoner (who had willed his body to science) was digitized and put on the […]