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		<title>Coming Soon &#8211; The Art and Science of Improvement</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After a long&#8230; very long hiatus this corner of the web will undergo a few changes in the next few days/weeks. If you happen to drop by looking for old healthcare and technology content you may not find it as it will start to disappear and this website will become my corporate identity. Even this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Update and Transition</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Thanks for dropping by. You may be wondering where I went and why content on this page has been thin and infrequent. There are several reasons for this. When I started this site I did so with high hopes of building a place to read about healthcare technology.  At the same time, however I also [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How much access should patients have to their medical records?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Post and links at KevinMD.]]></description>
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		<title>Home Health Monitor Sends Wireless Data to Your Doctor</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Interesting little device over at jkOnTheRun from a few months ago: Take Tunstall’s RTX3371 Wireless Telehealth Monitor, for example. The device just cleared the U.S. FDA and uses a slower GPRS cellular radio to receive and send data. Vital signs are wirelessly collected from other compatible devices like weight scales and blood pressure units; the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://virtuate.ca/home-health-monitor-sends-wireless-data-to-your-doctor/</link>
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		<title>Healthcare IT Primer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[John Halamka (profile on his blog here) has a piece over at the Health Care Blog on the fundamentals of healthcare IT.  He calls it A Healthcare IT Primer and presents in 10 common questions and answers.   I have listed the questions below&#8230; but for the answers you must go to the original post here. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://virtuate.ca/healthcare-it-primer/</link>
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		<title>Mobile Health Savings Lives in the Developing World</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From MediaGlobal.org: Cell phones are now a common part of our everyday lives. But not only is the technology taken for granted, its wide-reaching potential is largely unrecognized. The technology that is found in cell phones and PDAs is currently being applied to improve health services in developing countries. The United Nations Foundation (UNF) and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://virtuate.ca/mobile-health-savings-lives-in-the-developing-world/</link>
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		<title>Online Health Records Get Patients More Involved</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Wall Street Journal has a story on how large managed care groups, such as Kaiser Permanente and Group Health Cooperative, are turning more and more to electronic health record systems to encourage patients to become more involved in their own care. The trend, known as information therapy, involves delivering reliable health information directly to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mobile Health Consumers at 10 Million</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Manhattan Research is out with a report entitled: The Future of Mobile Health: Mobile Adoption, mHealth and Mobile Marketing &#8230; some excerpts for you: All of this holds exciting possibilities for the world of mobile health. Just as “eHealth” emerged as a buzzword in the early days of the Internet and later became an industry [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://virtuate.ca/mobile-health-consumers-at-10-million/</link>
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		<title>Health 2.0 &#8211; Some terms of reference</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As I have sat in meetings, speeches, read my Twitter stream (@virtuate) and loitered some blogs here and there I have been quietly putting together a list (initially mostly for my reference) on terms that come to mind when I think of advancing the service and provision of health care.   Is it 2.0?  I am [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://virtuate.ca/health-20-terms-of-reference/</link>
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		<title>Clinically Relevant vs Patient Centered</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Not sure why I am thinking about this&#8230; and to some of you more advanced thinkers and practitioners this might even be a rather silly question. But it struck me. Which of the two phrases in the title should be the one we focus on as we move forward into pushing the healthcare conversation forward? [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://virtuate.ca/clinically-relevant-vs-patient-centered/</link>
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