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Radiologists using iTunes to organize medical PDFs


We're willing to bet radiologists in Shanghai like to listen to music -- who doesn't? -- but that's not how they're using iTunes. At Renji Hospital and Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine, they're using it to organize PDFs of important medical research and images that they say are more useful than many textbooks.

You can drop a PDF into iTunes and sort it just like you would with music. That means that the medical documents in Shanghai are searchable, ratable, and can be given multiple different tags. Before iTunes, they were keeping redundant copies of PDFs in directories by category. Now, they only need to keep one of each. So, if you've been looking for software that can organize your PDFs, think about an app you likely already have: iTunes!

[via Dr. Dobb's]

Filed under: Internet, Web services, Microsoft

Microsoft HealthVault launches: health records go online

Microsoft HealthVault
Microsoft has launched its new consumer health portal which is something of a cross between WebMD and Life Record. In other words, HealthVault both lets you search for general health related information and store your own personal health data online.

What does a software company know about medicine? Well, Microsoft has partnered with groups ranging from the American Heart Association to the Mayo Clinic. When you search for a disease, symptoms, or pretty much anything else you'll get results from those institutions, Wikipedia, the web, and sponsors. If you sign up for an account, you can also save results in a 'scrapbook."

As for your personal date, that will be stored in an encrypted database. You can set your privacy controls so that only you'll be able to see your records, or you can share them with family members or others. Searches data is not associated with your user account.

If you're not itching to come home from the doctor's office and type all of your data into a website, fret not. Microsoft is reaching out to doctors, encouraging them to submit your information directly to the website to improve communication between doctors and patients. In other words, you won't have to make a phone call to get the results of your latest test. You'll be able to go online. If Jay Parkinson is Doctor 2.0, then Microsoft wants HealthVault to be medicine 2.0.

Google is also working on a health-related offering, but there's no word on when the service will launch.

[via The New York Times and istartedsomething]

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Forumwarz - a potentially offensive time waster

I pwn UAfter spending the better part of an hour on Forumwarz I still can't decide if it's just sick or if it's kind of fun. It's a bit like a car wreck on the highway. I know I shouldn't be looking but I can't quite turn away.

It's sick, it's twisted, it's the internet on it's worst level and darn it, it's kind of fun. At least for a little while.

Forumwarz is a parody role-playing game that takes place on the internet - or at least the Forumwarz version of it. Your goal is to complete missions that are given to you through a mock up of GoogleTalk called Sentrillion.

Your first "friend" is ShallowEsophagus who begins giving you missions to pwn various forums by being a troll. Depending on the character type you are assigned at start up, you have tools like drooling on the keyboard or bashing your head on the keyboard that you can use to destroy forum threads and eventually, pwn a forum.

Future missions involve buying illegal software from the Russians, pwning more difficult forums and other internet oddness.

Completing missions gives you cash, called Flezz in game, and items that you can pawn or use in other missions. The game is NOT for those easily offended. It's crass, coarse and there are frequent f-bombs in the fake chat sessions.

This is also a game for a more mature audience as it requires you to shop at the Drugs R Fun store to get various concoctions to improve your playing, engage in certain cyber activities to get more Flezz and just generally use a more adult perspective.

If you can get past that, here are the more enjoyable and time-wasting aspects.

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