Google’s Body Browser to Visualize Human Body
Google has recently announced an application that allows to visualize complex 3D graphics of the human body.
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Effort To Curb Illicit Rx Drug Activity Online
Google and Microsoft have partnered with the US administration to establish a not-for-profit organisation aimed at blocking illegal online pharmacies from selling counterfeit prescription drugs.
Medsynaptic Selected as a 2010 Red Herring Asia Top 100 Tech Startup
Red Herring announced its Top 100 Asia Award in recognition of the leading private companies from Asia, celebrating these startups
Should you trust health advice from internet forums?
Health information on the internet used to be shaped by doctors. Now it’s being shaped by patients. And it’s patients, not doctors, who are making the real progress in providing health information that delivers what people really want to know. But how do you know if this information and advice is trustworthy, and worth heeding?
Google can help doctors to diagnose tricky cases
Researchers have said that a team of Australian doctors googled the symptoms of 26 cases for a study in the New England Journal of Medicine.
Google launches Health Speaks in Arabic, Hindi and Swahili
Google has launched Health Speaks – https://www.google.org/healthspeaks – a new initiative to try to increase the amount of online health information in languages other than English.
Microsoft focuses on Xbox applications
Microsoft hopes to vamp up its HealthVault and other health services by making it easier for users to do everything from tracking their caloric intake to counting their steps using their cell phones, according to researchers at a Microsoft forum on health care technology in Beijing.
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Connectyx seeks to establish market leadership with MedSync and MedFlash product line
Connectyx Technologies Holdings Group announced that the company is looking to establish itself as the market leader in the Electronic Personal Health Record (ePHR) Industry.
IBM teams with Google to mobilise patient data
IBM has announced a collaboration with Google and Continua Health Alliance on new software to enable data to be easily moved from remote personal monitoring devices into Google Health personal health records (PHRs).
A ‘Tipping Point’ Year For Health Care IT, Says HHS
Health-care providers of all stripes face a host of technology challenges in the new year. Indeed, “the tea leaves are not settled at the bottom of the cup yet, but [providers] are already expected to budget for 2009, 2010 and beyond,” said Bob Booz, managing vice president for Gartner Research, at a kick-off town hall at Everything Channel’s Healthcare Summit in San Diego.
Social network for doctors, insurers to better coordinate
WellNet Healthcare is launching the beta version of its so-called
