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Special: IT

A hundred years ago doctors used to work with stethoscope and instruments in a leather bag. Today they use laptops and touch-screens.

IT is the topic of our Special on MEDICA.de in which information technology is in the focus.

A study shows that behavioural counselling that is computer automated can enhance weight loss for individuals following a web-based weight loss program. - Weight Loss: Computer Automated e-counselling Works

Although the use of e-mail and other Internet-based and computerized information resources has become routine in most professions, a survey of physicians across the U.S. has found that fewer than half of them incorporate these common technologies into routine patient practice. - Physicians: Low Rate of Basic Information Technology Use

With the computer-aided detection system only one expert is needed to look at each mammogram. Nevertheless the cancer detection rate is as good as when two experts read the films a study has found. - Breast Cancer: Computer-Aided Detection is Effective