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Health IT empowers seniors, creates e-patients

Technology holds several important keys for improving the lives of seniors, according to a study published in the journal Preventing Chronic Disease this week. The report explores the emergence of

E-patient on a quest for his own data

Hugo Campos, who is implanted with a cardioverter defibrillator, is on a mission to collect all the data he can--on himself. The information collected by his device currently is sent either to the

Technology key to growing consumerism trend in healthcare

Consumerism in healthcare is one of those trends that has been "looming" for an awfully long time. When the experts first predicted that patients would start shopping for providers as if healthcare

Assessing privacy, bandwidth concerns key for providers entering social media

Privacy rules under HIPAA, malpractice liability and professional responsibility codes are among the many reasons providers choose not to enter the social media realm, according to blogger David