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Plenty of companies are working on better engines to search the Web for health information. Now insurance heavyweight Aetna is making it personal.
The company is rolling out a search service that takes into account a member’s personal health information, including past diagnoses and health-plan details.
Roadside bombs have made brain damage a grim hallmark of modern war. A RAND study out today says 320,000 U.S. troops may have suffered brain injuries in Iraq and Afghanistan — and less than half say they were ever evaluated by a doctor.
Small and rural hospitals can have a tough time keeping patients. Many will drive an hour or two to the nearest city for all but the most basic — or most urgent — care. And the sickest patients may have to be shipped out anyway, to reach the specialists that might save them.
What if high-tech tools could bring the big-city expertise to their patients instead?
After 17 babies got overdoses of the blood thinner heparin at a Texas hospital, a hospital-quality group pointed to the incident as one more reason to push for computerized systems for ordering drugs within hospitals.