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Interesting case of a man detained at an airport because authorities couldn’t fingerprint him.
According to MedPage Today, he was taking the chemotherapy drug capecitabine which causes so-called hand-foot syndrome, or palmar-plantar erythrodysesthesia. The chronic inflammation causes the skin on the hands to peel and blister, which can eventually eradicate a patient’s fingerprints.
Government Health IT reports that the the Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) is developing an online model containing information for consumers about personal health records (PHRs) and the privacy policies related to their use. ONC’s effort appears targeted at engaging consumer to make more informed decisions about the use of PHRs.
The Office of the [...]
Stuff the ballot box.
The value of these sites, previously exposed as pretty useless in this Slate piece, is mainly due to the anonymous nature of the comments.
Indeed, even if a doctor wanted to genuinely improve from this form of patient feedback, “posting anonymously on the Web (on sites a doctor does not regularly monitor) is [...]
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