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Getting Docs to Use PCs

Katherine Hobson, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on March 15, 2011 at 4:30 am PT

Hospitals have spent millions of dollars adopting electronic medical records, aiming to get a slice of the government’s $27 billion in incentives. Now, they need to teach doctors and other staffers to use the records.

Done With Silly Game Shows, IBM's Watson Finds a Job

Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on February 17, 2011 at 7:45 am PT

Having licked the puny humans on TV games shows, the Watson supercomputer, or at least one like it, will be put to work on ways to help doctors make better decisions.

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Doctors Launch TheNNT.com to Give Treatment Info

Katherine Hobson, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on October 5, 2010 at 3:25 pm PT

Conveying how well a therapy works–and doing so in understandable terms–isn’t easy, but a group of physicians is trying to change that. Their new website, TheNNT.com, looks at a stat called the “number needed to treat,” which it defines as “a measurement of the impact of a medicine or therapy [that estimates] the number of patients that need to be treated in order to have an impact on one person.”

Diabetes Meter Mates With PC to Track Trends

Walt Mossberg in Personal Technology on December 16, 2009 at 6:04 pm PT

Walt Mossberg calls the Contour USB a computer-savvy device that can help diabetics track health trends.

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800,000 Doctors Warned About Stolen Personal Information

Jacob Goldstein, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on October 14, 2009 at 4:06 pm PT

Hey, docs: Someone stole your data. The Blue Cross Blue and Blue Shield Association is warning about 800,000 doctors (nearly every practicing physician in the country) that a laptop containing some of their personal information was stolen, the Chicago Tribune reports.