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>RSS, which stands for “Really Simple Syndication,” is a technology that brings the online news you want to a single Web page. With RSS feeds, you can view the latest headlines and summaries from the Web sites, say, of JAMA, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the American Diabetes Association, the Kevin, M.D., blog, Business Week, and even Medical Economics. Just click on a headline for the full story.
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Imagine a computerized healthcare system in which insurers, pharmacies, hospitals, retail clinics, and doctors upload clinical information as it’s generated to a patient’s personal health record, or PHR. Then imagine that Google, king of search engines, is somehow at the center of this data network. continues…

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Up to now, Google Health has used its mighty search engine to rank the popularity of health-related websites in discrete categories, such as cardiac arrhythmia or dry eye. But the blogosphere is alive with rumors that Google’s health-care plans extend far beyond that to include the development of a new kind of personal health record (PHR). continues…

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While we at Medical Economics are not doctors and are not experts in clinical topics, our target readers are and are. So, if you choose to respond to one of our postings here on MedBlogger, keep in mind that you’re never really anonymous while online.

Just ask Dr. Robert P. Lindeman who, blogging under the name “Flea,” posted extensively about a malpractice suit he was fighting.

Blogger unmasked, court case upended [Via Boston Globe]

Should doctors blog about their work? [Via Cape Cod Times]

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