Media
Bitcoin – Pirate’s Gold or new Global Currency?
30.08.11 | David Glance
Published on owni.eu
On July 19th this year, a Doctor Nefario arrived at Seattle airport and was asked if he had enough money to cover his stay in the US. He replied that he did, but it was in Bitcoin, an electronic cryptographic currency. Unfortunately, not only did the Customs and Border Protection Authority not know what Bitcoin was, they didn’t accept it as a valid currency and so refused him entry.
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New Ipad App Supports Diagnosis
The University of Western Australia’s Centre for Software Practice (CSP) has released a new iPad application which helps clinicians to choose the most appropriate diagnostic imaging examinations in a wide range of clinical scenarios.
The latest diagnostic education and decision support tool has been developed by CSP in collaboration with the Department of Imaging Services at the Royal Perth Hospital.
Diagnostic Imaging Pathways includes more than 130 pathways covering all the major organ systems and common clinical scenarios.
The pathways have been developed based on broad clinical consensus, and best-available evidence, and are under continuous review and development.
The principle clinical lead behind the Diagnostic Imaging Pathways, Professor Richard Mendelson, said the application will help doctors make the right decisions delivering the right treatment at the right place and the right time.
"Thirty per cent of imaging requests are incorrect or inappropriate - the iPad application DiPHD will help make sure that patients have the best chance of getting the most accurate diagnosis,” Professor Mendelson said.
CSP Director Associate Professor David Glance said having the pathways available on a platform like the iPad ensures that doctors will be able to access vital information, literally at their fingertips.
"Imaging is the first step in future pathways that will also involve pathology and clinical referral guidelines," Associate Professor Glance said.
DiPHD follows on from other award winning applications developed at the UWA CSP including MMEx, an eHealth platform used by clinicians throughout WA, Australia and New Zealand.
The application follows on from the success of the Diagnostic Imaging Pathways website.
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All the articles below were first published online in The Conversation
Obama’s not dead, but does Twitter need #better #security?
13.07.11 | David Glance
On July 4, a hacker took control of one of the Twitter accounts of US broadcaster FoxNews.com and sent out several tweets announcing President Obama had been shot.
Because it was a national holiday and nobody was available at Twitter to help, Fox News only regained control of the account some hours later and by that time the original tweets had spread around the world.
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10 reasons why Google+ will never be Facebook
30.06.11 | David Glance
Google is hoping that the saying “if at first you don’t succeed, try, try, again” will work out for them with Google+.
Launched as a private beta version on Tuesday, Google+ is the search giant’s latest attempt at a version of Facebook. The company has tried this before with products such as Orkut, Google Wave and Buzz.
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Music pirates won’t rush to iCloud for forgiveness
15.06.11 | David Glance
Some people, including on this site, have suggested there’s a loophole in Apple’s new iCloud that will allow people who illegally download music to somehow “launder” their dirty music files, getting a nice clean, and legal, license to the music stored on iCloud. This argument is flawed for two main reasons.
The first has to do with how the laws of copyright work and the second is to do with why people share or download music (and movies) in the first place.
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Alarm bells ringing over botched introduction of electronic health records
14.04.11 | David Glance
The Federal Government is introducing a new system for electronically managing health information — and given its botched implementation so far failure is almost guaranteed.
Called the PCEHR (personally controlled electronic health record) the idea is to give patients access to an electronic summary of their health records that can be shared among healthcare providers who will also update the record when they have contact with the patient.
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Battle of the browsers: how the web was won
29.03.11 | David Glance
Until a few years ago, there was only one name in the world of web browsing: Microsoft’s Internet Explorer. But now, in 2011, users have more choice than ever when it comes to searching online.
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