DrThom launch ‘male health’ service online
Men suffering from erectile dysfunction can now seek advice and receive prescriptions from an online treatment service, staffed by clinicians from DrThom and the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. The trust is the first NHS body to venture into online treatment, and has partnered with DrThom, the only medical service formally regulated by […]
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IBM uses 3D imaging to visualise patient records
Researchers at IBM have developed new visualisation software that will allow doctors to view personal medical records on an animated human body.
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Toolbar gives instant access to SearchMedica
GPs who use the SearchMedica medical search engine can now download a new toolbar, enabling them to search from whatever internet page is online at the time. The toolbar has been developed in a similar style to the Google toolbar, with GPs able to enter search terms into a box in the toolbar at the […]
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CfH pulls Health Informatics Community website
NHS Connecting for Health has taken down its Health Informatics Community website following the revelation that personal details of conference delegates could be accessed through the site. The DH agency pulled the Informatics Community website, which is designed to enable people to network and share information on health IT issues, after a Channel 4 news report last […]
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Personal health records high on HIMSS agenda
Personal health records, patient identification, interoperability and, of course, quality were high on the agenda at the annual Health Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS), in the recovering US city of New Orleans, Neil Versel writes. An Accenture study released at the start of last week’s meeting suggested that two-thirds of Americans consider electronic health […]
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Two-thirds in Wales access health information online
A survey commissioned by Informing Healthcare, the Welsh healthcare IT programme, has revealed that almost two-thirds of people in Wales source health information online. Informing Healthcare commissioned Pricewaterhouse Coopers International Survey Unit to research the preferred method for adults in Wales to source health information, with 1002 people participating in the telephone survey between March […]
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Medical search engine rated ‘better than Google’
A survey of over 200 GPs has found that two thirds feel that specialist search engines such as SearchMedica can be better sources for medical information than generic search engines such as Google. Medix-UK independently surveyed 201 GPs last month on behalf of SearchMedica to find out which sources GPs use to find medical information online. […]
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The next wave
Ben Toth explains how the user’s relationship with the internet is changing, in the first of two articles on healthcare and Web 2.0.
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‘Googling’ aids difficult diagnoses
Doctors puzzling over a difficult diagnosis might do well to try “googling” their patients’ symptoms, according to research published by the British Medical Journal. The researchers, from Australia, reached their conclusion after “googling for a diagnosis” using the Google search engine on 26 cases records published in the New England Journal of Medicine in 2005. […]
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Specialist search engine for GPs launched
A new medical search engine for GPs called SearchMedica was launched yesterday by publishers CMPMedica, who publish the GP newspaper Pulse. The aim of the free search engine is to help GPs find medical information online, with search results linked directly to the keywords searched for. Lindsay Cook, managing director of CMP information’s specialist markets […]
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