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Remote monitoring of high-risk and chronically ill patients has come a long way. With recent improvements in mobile technology and wireless connectivity, falling prices on high-end home computing equipment and the wide adoption of consumer …

Thousands of patient social security numbers and names went missing last week when a laptop was stolen from a nurse working for Minneapolis-based Allina Hospitals and Clinics. Under Allina's obstetrics home-care program, nurses visit homes to monitor high-risk pregnancies and check in on mothers and babies. Last week, an affiliated nurse returned from dropping off a specimen at a lab to find that her laptop was gone, complete with patient data from about 14,000 households.

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> FDA official pushes electronic tools for better medical device monitoring. FDA speech

> Chattanooga, TN-area hospitals are on their way to adopting a paperless medical record system as federal officials continue to push for health providers to leave paper behind. …