There is an ill wind of pessimism blowing amongst staff about the future of NHS services (BMJ item on staff survey). So it will be a challenge to the 3ML campaign team to turn it to bring the campaign some
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The FDA in the States has recently mandated that all healthcare equipment sold in the US will have to carry a unique device identifier (UDI), which is specific to a particular item and includes an identifying number and other information
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According to its website the QIPP Digital Technology and Vision network “is to promote and provide an online collaboration space for the sharing of local digital initiatives across the NHS” and it has just produced a 9-page Digital Technology Essentials
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The Gimlet Eye is often amazed at the pursuits of those who are reaching for, or have reached, the heights of academe and the outer limits of research. For instance, in this recent article originating in the part of the US where, Frank Lloyd Wright said, the loose bits roll to a much needed rest, the Quantified Self has replaced rocket science, astrophysics or even algorithms which can calculate Apple's stock price in 2014. A doctoral candidate at UC San Diego is a community organizer for quantifiedself.com, which organizes mix-ups (ah, the writer must mean Meetups) and conferences for people with the yen to pick, poke and measure their very selves. An astrophysicist at Calit2 tracks every minute of his life--sleep with Zeo, steps and activity with FitBit, exercise with a heart rate monitor--plus one other thing which makes the Eye roll. (Hint: its analysis took a 35GB file) And his fellow researchers at UC Irvine...

University of Southern California’s (USC) Institute for Creative Technology has developed a ‘virtual patient’ which simulates the symptoms of clinical conditions such as PTSD and depression which are common with returning combat veterans. Developed under a grant from the US
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A team at MIT’s Media Lab has developed a prototype camera worn on a finger ‘ring’ linked to a smartphone that provides an audio interpretation of the picture taken. The user points the camera at the object, tells the camera
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Now a new reason to fear data breaches [TA 10 Aug]. Not just patient information is for sale. Hackers got into medical records of a small surgical practice in Libertyville, Illinois via their server storing emails and EMRs. In this
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Buzzed by buzzwords tossed about in the startup sphere–and in business in general? This Forbes infographic sends up the lot with amusing definitions of oft-heard terms such as ‘angel’, ‘branding’, ‘crowdsourcing’, ‘holy grail’, ‘paradigm shift’ and ‘mission statement.’ And about
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