The New York Times (9/9, C3, Pollack) reports that a "company called 23andMe, one of the leaders in the new field of consumer genetic information, is expected to announce on Tuesday that it is cutting the price of its service deeply, to...

Last week I spoke on a medical bloggers panel at the Medicine 2.0 Congress held in Toronto. The meeting was held at the MaRS Centre downtown near the University of Toronto campus and the University Health Network hospital sites.  The MaRS...

Health care applications for the iPhone, text messages from physicians and even Nintendo’s Wii Fit video game are versions of telemedicine, according to Jonathan Linkous, chief executive officer of the American Telemedicine Association....

An interesting new development funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation that will allow patients to collect and annotate images for incorporation into their records. Dr. Dan Fletcher at the University of California at Berkeley and his...

From Seeing the Picture: The Digital Library Collections at Yale Medical Library are notable for several reasons, especially the apparent emphasis that’s being given to the effort by the library’s administration — The digital collections...

On the heels of the annoucement of formation of Omnyx, I came across a piece commenting on the Chicago Tribune story I posted about "Digital Imaging see as pathology lab cure?".  What I did not appreciate is that the article on...