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UPDATE: New Internet Explorer 6 and 7 security weakness found. Forward this to your IT department if you are battling to get them to upgrade. IE zero-day flaw leaks out from zdnet.

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Shirley Ledlie, aka “Ann Adams”, “Julie Kahn”, “Jasper Boon”, and who-knows-how-many-more-phony-FB-aliases — the patient who claims sanofi-aventis (S-A) mislead her about the side effects of cancer drug Taxotere (see “sanofi aventis Feels the Social Media Pain. But Is It Authentic?”)…

A reminder that Med-e-Tel 2010 in Luxembourg is just about a month away. eHealthNews provides a good summary of what’s covered at Med-e-Tel and a link to the official site. If your company may be interested in sponsoring a Telecare…

During the HIMSS event in Atlanta last week MobiHealthNews made some news of our own when we launched our first research report: MobiHealthNews Presents: The World of Health and Medical Apps. During the six weeks leading up to HIMSS, the…

The concept of usability is in common usage in reference to telecare and telehealth equipment, but how about obtrusiveness - i.e. how much does it intrude into people’s lives? A paper Defining Obtrusiveness in Home Telehealth Technologies: A Conceptual Framework from…

Video: Glenn Beck Attacks Barbara Duck

Oh the marvels of technology, just sign in to Facebook and you can have Glenn Beck attack you too.  The pictures are classic!   Be sure you have a Facebook picture on your profile that…

Some 35,000 patients in Buffalo, NY with BlueCross BlueShield of Western New York plans will soon have 24 hour access to their physicians via web cams, phone or secure text messages, according to the healthcare insurance provider. BCBS is working…

Health Information Exchange networks (HIEs) aim to be the glue that binds electronic medical records and other health information repositories and sources (including mHealth) together — and there’s a substantial amount of stimulus money being thrown at HIEs to drive…

It’s clear that more and more companies are getting the green light from their leadership teams to get started in social media. That’s right…you’ve fought long and hard and patiently explained the rationale. You’ve shown examples (including a bunch from…

At the HIMSS event in Atlanta last week, MobiHealthNews sat down with Eddie Cuellar, CIO, Methodist Health System in North Texas to discuss his views on wireless health services, home monitoring, patient data integration and plans for application deployment at…