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Using Social Media for Emergency Response

In a recent article in The New England Journal of Medicine, the authors explore how social media has played a critical role, and likely will in the future, in emergency preparedness efforts. It presents several interesting ideas for ways social media can further be integrated into emergency preparedness. Find out more about their ideas.

The vitamin D status of Canadians relative to the 2011 Dietary Reference Intakes

This week's article is an examination of whether Canadian children and adults meet the required minimum doses for vitamin D, with or without supplement use. It indicates a lot of people have insufficient vitamin D in their blood, with potentially unfavorable implications for their bones. Read more from this article...
Sermo iPhone app provides physician consults on the go

Have you ever had a patient on hand and wish you could get a consult, advice, or tips from other physicians, either to get another opinion or to get information from physicians in other specialties? If you have an iPhone, you now can have 120,000 U.S. physicians at your fingertips with the Sermo iPhone app. More about the app here...
The iPad and Electronic Medical Records

Here's a worthwhile post about something that a lot of health professionals would love to see - electronic medical record systems they could use on the iPad. Although I don’t think anyone has come up with an ideal setup, this post provides a well-organized and thorough overview of the current state of the art. Learn more about the developments.
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