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e-Medicine is on the rise. Medicine has perennially been stuck in the era of fax machines, but new technology and new laws are bringing innovation in mobile devices, data analytics, and telemedicine. This collection explores how the e-medicine explosion is changing the way we collect and use health information—and how businesses manage health-care costs.

Via Gust MEES, Adam Atodl

"Scientific Data to complement and promote public data repositories

 

Scientific Data will be a forum for publications about datasets, but will not be a repository for primary datasets. Primary data associated with Data Descriptors will be stored in one or more external data repositories. Why this distinction?

 

 This strategy helps us draw some clear lines around the goals of Scientific Data. By ensuring that the primary datasets are stored in external systems, we make it crystal clear that our goal is to help authors publish content that promotes the scientific value and reusability of their datasets, not to control access to data. We feel that this is a progressive strategy that will help promote collaboration and data consolidation, rather than fragmentation"

from source: http://blogs.nature.com/

 

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Via ghbrett, michel verstrepen

Take a walk through a human brain? Fly over the surface of Mars? Computer scientists at the University of Illinois at Chicago are pushing science fiction closer to reality with a wraparound virtual world where a researcher wearing 3D glasses can do all that and more.

In the system, known as CAVE2, an 8-foot-high screen encircles the viewer 320 degrees. A panorama of images springs from 72 stereoscopic liquid crystal display panels, conveying a dizzying sense of being able to touch what's not really there.

Via Szabolcs Kósa, Artur Coelho, Rui Guimarães Lima, CTIC-FCS-UC, Mariano Fernandez S.