“When Dr. Richard Levine needs quick access to his patient’s electronic health records, he consults his iPhone. As part of a pilot program at ColumbiaDoctors, Levine is testing an app called Allscripts Remote, which gives him access to real-time patient data, provides fast communication with emergen ...
Oh, man, like the Rebel Alliance and the Empire from Star Wars is this new “ad war” between Verizon and AT&T. It started when Verizon with their Blockade Runner battleship dared to undermine the AT&T Death Star (think of their logo) by finding a weakness. Yes, AT&T’s 3G network has been called spott ...
“Google is proposing a special new format for online pharmaceutical ads that may address the US Food & Drug Administration’s risk-disclosure and regulatory concerns about the industry’s online marketing. Google suggested including extra links about side-effects within drug ads at last week’s two-day ...
“Research analyst firm Gartner put together a top ten list of mobile services for 2012 and mobile health monitoring services made the list at number five: ‘Consumer mobile applications and services are no longer the prerogative of mobile carriers,’ Sandy Shen, research director at Gartner stated in ...
A wonderful interview with Danah boyd, posted at AL Direct: http://alfocus.ala.org/videos/danah-boyd-interview Description (from AL Direct): After her keynote address at the American Association of School Libraries National Conference, American Libraries caught up with danah boyd, the "high priestes ...
“The year of mobile has been predicted virtually annually for the past decade. There is compelling evidence that this time it’s different. Overall, there are now more mobile phones in the world than personal computers. There are over 4.6 billion mobile subscribers worldwide, according to eMarketer. ...
“MasterCard has called Peyton Manning’s number again. This time, the Indianapolis Colts quarterback, joined by actress Alyson Hannigan from How I Met Your Mother, is plugging the new ‘MasterCard Priceless Gift Finder.’ The tool, located at Priceless.com/giftfinder, helps shoppers find gifts accordin ...
“ Until recently, the TV business was shielded from the turmoil that the Internet has visited upon other media industries, like music and publishing. The reason was largely a matter of network capacity. Sending high-quality video through the Web requires a lot more bandwidth than sending text or mus ...
“When Americans go looking for information on health, they turn to the Internet as one of their first sources. According to a recent survey by the Pew Internet and American Life Project, 61 percent of adults say they look online for health information. There’s a term for them: e-patients. Most e-pat ...
