Archives Internal Medicine

By  Neil Versel 06:38 am June 11, 2012
When it comes to providing incentives for people to make healthy lifestyle choices, mobile devices to track diet and exercise can help, but the real motivator might be good old, hard cash. Researchers from Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago gave handheld personal digital assistants to 204 adults at risk of developing multiple chronic diseases due to lifestyle and...
By  Neil Versel 03:14 pm March 19, 2012
Maybe iPads aren't so bad after all acting as Citrix terminals for mobile EHR access. Unlike in the failed, much-publicized, small-scale trial at Seattle Children's Hospital last year, medical residents and interns in internal medicine at the University of Chicago felt more efficient when carrying iPads around the hospital, according to new research published in the Archives of Internal Medicine...