MDNG In Print

Covering Your Assets: How Much Do You Know About Your Investments?

Mon, 12 May 2008 13:25:26 CDT


		With the recent stock market turmoil, many people are concerned about the safety of their investments and their fi nancial advisors’ performance. Whether your primary planning goal is to assert more control over your assets, maximize current returns, or build future fi nancial security, it is important to know the key issues on which to focus. Even if you don’t want to actively manage your own finances, you should be able to answer the following questions so you can understand whether your investment advisor is on the right track.
		Mon, 12 May 2008 13:25:26 CDT

Mon, 12 May 2008 13:19:39 CDT


		The advent of managed care in the late 1960s was probably the last major “innovation” in healthcare delivery.
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Mon, 12 May 2008 13:08:12 CDT


		Concerns about online PHRs are overblown given that Americans have become avid users of Internet-based financial services.
		Mon, 12 May 2008 13:08:12 CDT

Mon, 12 May 2008 12:54:28 CDT


		All physicians understand that learning is a lifelong activity. Whether we are interested in fulfilling our professional CME requirements, or learning about new things that simply enrich our lives, opportunities to become more educated and knowledgeable have never been easier to find and access. This broad availability of educational resources is, in large part, due to widespread access to personal computers and the Internet.
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Mon, 12 May 2008 12:33:29 CDT


		Andre Elisseef of IBM’s Zurich Research Lab explains how IBM’s Anatomic and Symbolic Mapper Engine (ASME) enables physicians to visualize patient records using three-dimensional representations of the human body.
		Mon, 12 May 2008 12:33:29 CDT

Mon, 12 May 2008 12:15:26 CDT


		There is an increasing number of options available these days for physicians who are interested in becoming more technology savvy.
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Mon, 12 May 2008 11:43:24 CDT


		The best programs also come equipped with medical dictionaries with thousands of words commonly used in daily practice by physicians and specialists, eliminating the need to build the program’s vocabulary from scratch.
		Mon, 12 May 2008 11:43:24 CDT

Mon, 12 May 2008 11:36:15 CDT


		E-detailing is currently being piloted, or is at least under consideration, by many pharmaceutical companies as a way to maximize sales force time, cut costs, and increase interaction with physicians.
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Mon, 12 May 2008 11:18:13 CDT


		What is most remarkable about online CME is the fact that, when it comes to the actual nature of the educational materials on offer, nothing has really changed.
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Mon, 12 May 2008 11:05:34 CDT


		Anirban Bandyopadhyay, PhD, artifi cial intelligence and molecular electronics scientist, National Institute for Materials Science at Tsukuba, Japan, talks about the “Nano-brain,” a brain neuron-inspired, microscopic computer made up of 17 duroquinone molecules sitting in a ring pattern on a gold surface. The assembly has the potential to perform more than 4.3 billion commands at once, and could have far-reaching implications for medicine.
		Mon, 12 May 2008 11:05:34 CDT