eHEALTH Weekly Newsletter, 5 January 2012

eHEALTH Weekly Newsletter: 5 January 2012 VOl. IIVI Issue 99

TOP NEWS

High radiation puts child X-ray patients at risk

Patients are being exposed to unnecessarily high doses of radiation during common X-rays and scans because some hospitals have out-of-date equipment and inadequately trained staff...



Social Media: A cure for what's ailing health care It's an exciting time to be a healthcare communicator as social and mobile technologies... Read More...		The new and numerous faces of radiology Though otolaryngology holds the title of the oldest medical specialty in the United State.... Read More...		Does webOS have a future in healthcare? HP's webOS platform may find new life as an open source operating system for healthcare applications... Read More...
CORPORATE NEWS

iCAD completes $15 Million financing iCAD, Inc. ICAD -1.75% , an industry-leading provider of advanced image analysis, workflow solutions and radiation therapy for the early identification ... Read More...		GE Healthcare compensates $30 million to resolve medicare fraud case The US Justice Department articulated that General Electric Co. (GE)'s health-care unit.... Read More...		Duet Group plans $150m investment in Nigeria's Health Insurance The nation's health sector is expected to see some vibrancy in the near future, as foreign investors continue... Read More...
MISC. NEWS

Quantitative CT helps identify COPD patients at increased risk for exacerbations National Jewish Health researchers and their colleagues in the COPDGene... Read More...		Smartphones blamed for increasing risk of health data breaches The number of physicians using smartphones has reached a near-saturation point. Meanwhile, the number of data breaches is going up... Read More...		PET can detect mediastinal lymphoma in children FDG uptake of thymus measured by PET/CT is an effective indicator for the differentiation of mediastinal lymphoma from normal thymus... Read More...


Cisco Systems excels in healthcare sector in India The networking company Cisco Systems is expanding in the Asia since it has recently declared launch ... Read More...	Hospital e-Health record market revenues could reach $6.5B in 2012 Total U.S. market revenues for hospital electronic health record systems could reach $6.5 billion.... Read More...		Help Africa supports two health facilities in the Volta Region Come Help Africa, a local subsidiary of Help Africa Incorporated, a US-based international NGO, has donated medica... Read More...

Log on the Internet to Find Nearest Polling Booth
A voter in Faziabad district can now find the exact location of his polling booth with just a click of the mouse...