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Boston’s Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center has given out Google Glass to all emergency room doctors in an expanding pilot program. Patients’ rooms are labeled with QR codes that immediately…

The quest to find new therapies to treat and cure pulmonary disease continues at a rapid pace. According to Centerwatch.com, 27,583 pulmonary studies are ongoing. Asthma studies represent more than…

This Monday, an unusual partnership was announced between Clarient Diagnostic Services, one of the largest cancer testing facilities in the US, and Definiens, a software company that specializes in applying…

The CommonWell Health Alliance has announced that a trial of its plan for fluidly sharing patient health records between providers will commence in early 2014, with select acute and ambulatory…

While clinical screening for cervical and colorectal cancers in middle-aged Americans is standard practice that is generally agreed to improve health outcomes, screening for these cancers in the elderly has…

UNC Health Care is using IBM big data analytics to help hospital workers reduce costly and preventable readmissions, decrease mortality rates and improve patient care. Read more on the link.

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2013 was awarded jointly to James E. Rothman, Randy W. Schekman and Thomas C. Sudhof “for their discoveries of machinery regulating vesicle traffic,…

EHR usability is among the greatest barriers to digitizing America’s healthcare system. Electronic health records present a push toward modernization – transformation even –  but to fulfill the promise, industry…

In a move aimed at helping organizations rein in healthcare costs and improve their members’ health, Dossia announced Thursday the launch of the Dossia Dashboard, a population health management system.…

There’s a lot of excited commentary out there about genomics and personalized medicine. And no doubt it’s exciting. The prospect of being able to home in on hitherto inaccessible data…