Morning Headlines 9/29/14
HealthKit support added to WebMD, Carrot Fit, Yummly, more
A week after a bug forced Apple to pull HealthKit from its iOS 8 release, the feature is back up and running with a growing list of optimized health apps feeding data into it.
Citizen Hackers Tinker With Medical Devices
The Wall Street Journal covers the concerning rise in consumers hacking their own medical devices to add functionality that the FDA has yet to approve.
Deaths fall ‘with use of software’
In England, death rates drop at two NHS hospitals after a risk score-based alert system was implemented that monitors vital signs, calculates an “early warning score,” and then alerts nurses when the score trends outside of an acceptable threshold.
Program with projects that support it. I have used this approach for longer than I care to admit in public,…
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I literally cannot imagine any circumstances where the replacement of VistA was not troublesome. VistA was custom designed for the…
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