Category: AI, Technology & Innovation

Network World reported yesterday that Kaweah Delta Health Care District in Visalia, Calif., is planning to deploy 100 iPads for testing by health-care workers in …

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently launched a Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH) Transparency Web site as part of its initiative to …

A new technique developed by researchers at Vanderbilt University may allow data from health records to be used for medical studies while protecting patients' privacy, …

If you haven't seen it yet, earlier this week Dean Kamen (of Segway fame) showed off the Luke Arm he's been working on the last …

Take two of these pills and they'll call your doctor in the morning. Engineers at the University of Florida have designed a pill that tells …

Much has been written about the potentially addictive qualities of massively multiplayer online role-playing games such as World of Warcraft and Eve. And a similar …

In the context of pharmaceutical companies, Steve Woodruff discusses the tradeoffs of a personalized Twitter feed versus a homogenized feed on KevinMD: As more and …

Patients are increasingly turning to the Internet for health information. In an article published yesterday in the New England Journal of Medicine, Pamela Hartzband, MD, …

Lukas Biewald discusses the crowdsourced relief efforts in Haiti: The advantages of a flexible crowdsourcing workflow to managing disaster relief are huge. Businesses like crowdsourced …

Brady Forrest of O'Reilly Radar has assembled a list of Web tools that were designed for the disaster response in Haiti and are now also …

This is a bit of an aside from medicine, but I think it's relevant to what we do on Scope. Yesterday Dan Gillmor, author of …