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Twisted Blood Vessels

Because the same vital angiogenic process that allows your body to heal itself also causes tumors to grow, computer-assisted tortuosity has emerged as a fascinating concept of identifying cancerous...

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Fail2ban and OS X Server, part deux

As some of you might know I run my own installation of OS X Server. I’ve since updated it to Snow Leopard Server and I think I’ve got most of it running well. As I check my server logs frequently I...

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SharpBrains Council Weekly Update: 54 Members, Events, Industry, Research, Ideas

Discussions >Industry Activity from October 2010 (Posit Science, Dakim, Zeo, NovaVision, Lumosity) >Pearson starts to promote Cogmed working memory training (press release) Research & Policy...

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Male Laptop Users: Beware Of An Overheated “Lap”

Male readers be advised! Using your laptop placed on your knees to read this post may cause your testicles to heat up quite significantly. However surprisingly, this is not due to the heat dissipated...

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SharpBrains Council Monthly Insights: How will we assess, enhance and repair...

Discussions (Members-only links below. To Learn More and Join Council, click Here) Now let’s take a look at the great things going on with the SharpBrains Council. Council Membership 60 Council...

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Understanding a different mind: memory organization and receptive language

As my oldest son moves into his adolescence, his mind continues to change. Observing him, I get new insights into how his mind works.He has a pen pal now, a young woman who is studying special...

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Insurers Test Data Profiles to Identify Risky Clients

Stories like this one today at the WSJ disturb me.“Insurers Test Data Profiles to Identify Risky Clients”Wall Street JournalNov. 19, 2010From that story: Life insurers are testing an intensely...

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Apple's iPad/iPhone App store has a special education section

The iPhone/iPad App Store has a section devoted to special education. I was able to find some announcements from the end of October, so it's quite new.There's a lot there, from sign language to...

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Annals of Electronic Information Security

At The Hill, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich raises a good point about the leak of hundreds of thousands of diplomatic cables and other private information:"You have a private first class who...

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An Interview With An Informatics Nurse

Ever wonder how all those hospital systems are created and maintained? (Computer charting, systems to report data to national and state organizations, to name a couple.) Sure, they could hire some IT...

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Brain-computer interface research comes of age: traditional assumptions meet...

Authors: Wolpaw JRBrain-computer interfaces (BCIs) could provide important new communication and control options for people with severe motor disabilities. Most BCI research to date has been based on 4...

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Requirements versus Services

The smart alecks that post wise guy comments on my, and other pharmacist websites, usually only have one or two things they say regarding the worth of pharmacists. The root of their hatred for the...

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Life Science in 2020 - Vision of students joining ESOF 2010

Here more information about the Janssen ScienceBus 2010 to the ESOF conference (EuroScience Open Forum).Life Science in 2020 - Vision of the studentsBooklet from Alfons BoesmansSee alsoAnswers to...

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Painless memorization with Quizlet

Understanding anatomy and physiology often begins with building a foundation of basic terminology and identification of structures by name and location.  Yikes, that means memorization.  A lot of folks...

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Laptop Computer-Induced Erythema ab Igne

Erythema ab igne is a skin reaction caused by exposure to heat. It is also known as hot water bottle rash, fire stains, and toasted skin syndrome. Ignis is the latin word for "fire". In this case...

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Happy Goals

Are you happy about your goals or are you working for goals that someone else set up for you? Do you have quota goals thrust upon you every month by your employer? How about a weight loss goal that was...

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Internet, Porn, or Cybersex Addiction

This article may help identify a form of ‘stinking thinking’ that may result.The Internet is a wonderful tool for communication. However, it can become an escape from reality that has the appearance of...

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Record with your pen!

Sometimes newfangled technology products really do revolutionize how we learn.  One of the newer, niftier learning aids is the set of Smartpens offered by Livescribe. Smartpens are pens that record...

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Time Served For Bristol Worker Who Stole Secrets

A former Bristol Myers Squibb employee who admitted that he stole secret formulas so he could start a company in his native India was sentenced today to a year that he has already served in jail in...

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Doctors Are “Sponges?”

I am a doctor. Go ahead, call me what you may. Group me into a neatly, prejudged category: “All you doctors.” Just don’t label me a sponge. That’s right. Recently in the Wall Street Journal, Mr....

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Windows 7 Service Pack 1 "Glitches": Why Computers are Garbage, and Should...

A technical note on computer unreliability, and a series of followup critical questions relative to health IT:I run Windows 7 Professional on one of my computers, a very unspecial 4-5 year old Micro...

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Naked Therapy or Just Cam-Girl Soft Porn?

When is psychotherapy, well, therapeutic? Is it any more therapeutic if your “therapist” starts taking off their clothes during your session? A freelance computer programmer, Sarah White, has decided...

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Should scientists care about a Wiki for Knowledge Management?

I would like to encourage scientists to contribute to the ongoing survey of the Research Committee of the Wikimedia Foundation. The title of the survey is "Expert barriers to Wikipedia?" and you as...

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Meaningful Use and HIPAA – The Sanction Policy

Guest Poster: John Brewer is the founder of HIPAAaudit.com.  He and his team help physicians run HIPAA Compliant practices in the simplest, most pain free way. As previously mentioned, the Sanction...

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Medical Data Breach of the Month Department: Health Net Once Again a Star in...

I have written frequently about the breaches of electronic information security, such as at my posts:"Networked EMR's and Healthcare Information Security: Practical When Massive IT Security Breaches...

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How Well Do You Multitask Between the TV and the Computer?

This study hints at the generational shift that is occurring and that researchers are starting to document in studies such as this. Younger adults are used to consuming media simultaneously, from...

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Does the Internet Promote or Damage Marriage?

PBS/This Emotional Life is hosting a webinar in two weeks about the internet’s impact on relationships and marriage, in particular. As a panelist on the webinar, I wanted to explore this issue a bit...

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Delusions Keep Up With the Times

Would you imagine the content of people’s delusions would change with the changing times? Well, according to Vaughan Bell writing over at Mind Hacks, they do. Research that analyzed the content of...

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Google Science Fair 2011

I’m pleased to help spread the word today about the world’s first online global science competition, the Google Science Fair! Google has partnered with CERN, LEGO, National Geographic and Scientific...

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Use Word Stash for learning new terms

In several previous articles, I mentioned that the first step in learning the concepts of anatomy and physiology successfully is to learn the language.  You need to master the terminology before you...

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Digital Detox Week: On (Sort Of) Staying Away From Technology

Photo Credit: .:AR:. (Flickr) Happy Digital Detox Week! This week, I’m joining Adbusters in celebrating seven days away from technology — television, video games, and internet included. Wait. What was...

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7 Key Lessons from the 2011 SharpBrains Summit: Retooling Brain Health for...

SharpBrains served a highly thought-provoking and informative 2011 Virtual Summit on Retooling Brain Health for the 21st Century over 3 days, March 30th — April 1st. Here is a brief distillation of...

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Chicago Hospitals Embark On Long HIE Journey

I live in Chicago, a highly competitive healthcare market with some world-class medical schools (Northwestern, University of Chicago, Loyola, Rush) and a pretty decent record of EMR adoption. At least...

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iPad & the Death of Netbooks

I noticed something very curious Friday in the financial news. Microsoft’s stock dropped over 5% in one day. The headline went on to say that the main culprit was the drop in sales of the windows...

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Adolescent computing - training wheels

My 14 yo's computer skills have continued to be a real strength. Of course, being both 14 and having disabilities in executive function, he does not always use them wisely.Years ago I hoped the iPhone...

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Adolescent computing and OS X Parental Controls - training wheels

My 14 yo's computer skills have continued to be a real strength. Of course, being both 14 and having disabilities in executive function, he does not always use them wisely.Years ago I hoped the iPhone...

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Another Blow to the Health IT Idealists: Sony CEO Howard Stringer, and HHS...

In a series of Healthcare Renewal posts such as those linked below, I pointed out that healthcare IT information security was largely a pipe dream, and that plans to create a national network of health...

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Brain-controlled bionic hand for ‘elective amputation’ patient

Source: BBC News — May 18, 2011An Austrian man has voluntarily had his hand amputated so he can be fitted with a bionic hand, which will be controlled by nerve signals in his own arm. The bionic...

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iPhone App Can Substitute For Expensive Pulse Oximeter

The Electrical and Computer Engineering in Medicine (ECEM) research group in collaboration with the Pediatric Anesthesia Research Team (PART) at the University of British Columbia have developed a...

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How-To: Maintain a correct posture while working on your laptop

Adult or Child Laptop Use at Home, Work or Classroom.Mobile or Smart Phone Use while Driving, Traveling or on the Move.Link via Digital Inspiration. Posted at Clinical Cases and Images. Stay updated...

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Bad Research: Popular Sex Search Terms

People like sex. They like sex so much, they spend a lot of time searching for it online. Go figure. (You can tell I’m about to delve into really highbrow, heady stuff here…) Researchers Ogi Ogas and...

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Is Microsoft’s .NET technology and Silverlight (and thus most current...

Last year Microsoft stunned the programming world when they announced that .NET and Silverlight is no longer their preferred cross platform technology, and instead, the focus of cross platform...

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Why Aren’t There More Women CEOs In Health IT?

The Health Tech 2011 Conference, held earlier this month in Boston, featured presentations from startup CEOs in the health and wellness space. The conference had nothing to do with gender issues or...

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Human Computer Confluence

(HC-CO) is an ambitious initiative recently launched by the European Commission under the Future and Emerging Technologies (FET) program, which fosters projects that investigate and demonstrate new...

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Serious Games: Developing a Research Agenda for Educational Games and...

(Editor’s Note: the recent trade book Computer Games and Instruction brings together the leading edge perspectives of over a dozen scientists in the area of videogames and learning, including a very...

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Blogscan: UK unencrypted laptop health breach affects more than 8.6 million...

From the blog "Australian Health Information Technology":Who Needs Hackers When There Are Accidents Like This? The PCEHR [Personally Controlled Electronic Health Record - ed.] Won’t Avoid Hacker...

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Computer-Guided Neurosurgery, 30% Increase in Physician Payment

Neuro programs should be pretty excited that physicians will see a 30% increase in reimbursement for cranial and spinal applications when using computer-guidance technology.  For 2011, CMS added three...

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EHR Readiness Questions

In my interest of highlighting more EHR bloggers, I found this post by Ron Sterling on EHR Outlook quite interesting. In his post, Ron highlights a number of questions a clinic should ask itself to...

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5 Reasons for the Joy of Craft, or, Why Is Computer Programming Fun?

I recently read (sort of) Frederick Brooks’s The Mythical Man-Month. As I understand it, this book is a cult classic, and I was very curious to read it. It’s about software project management, and even...

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Learning with Video Games: A Revolution in Education and Training?

In recent years, we have witnessed the beginnings of a revolution in education.  Technology has fundamentally altered the way we do many things in daily life, but it is just starting to make headway...

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