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How Wireless Technology Will Change Global Health

There is a slick new television commercial advertising Apple's iPad. It includes a cool medical application that can be used for medical imaging. The advertisement shows a trend in medicine: in the last two years there has been an ...READ»

Doctors Get Mobile Heart Monitoring and Check-Ups With Latitude iPhone App

Remember when the iPod made your music collection mobile, letting you access and sort your library from anywhere? Boston Scientific is on track to do the same thing with patient medical data, via an upcoming iPhone app. "It's all ...READ»

Body Computing Is a Glimmer of Hope in the Health-Care Chasm

A Los Angeles conference shows how advancing technology aided by designers can help both doctors and patients.READ»

Million-Dollar Question: Who Owns Your Genetic Data?

The possible benefits of body computing--the use of implanted, digested, or wearable devices that transmit health data--are almost as numerous as the number of tech gizmos the concept has spawned. There's Nike Plus and next-gen ...READ»

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How the Networked Body Is Reinventing the Consumer

Leslie Saxon Professor of Medicine; Chief of Cardiovascular Medicine USC school of Medicine Los Angeles, California Reinventing the Consumer Leslie Saxon, 50, has worked in the field of networked health monitoring ...READ»