Hospital investigates lost data
South Shore Hospital in Massachusetts reported that backup computer files containing personal, health and financial information for approximately 800 000 individuals may have been lost by a data management company that was hired to destroy them, reveals Healthcare News.
Officials at South Shore Hospital said the files were being destroyed because the formatting was no longer compatible with what the hospital used.
According to the hospital, files were sent to a professional data management company for offsite destruction on 26 February. When certificates of destruction were not provided in a timely manner, officials said they pressed the data management company for an explanation and were finally informed on 17 June that only a portion of the files had been received and destroyed.
University developing ocular lie-detection
A group of University of Utah researchers is using eye-tracking technology to pioneer a promising alternative to the polygraph for lie detection, says MedIndia.
Eye movements have long been thought to reveal whether people are telling the truth or lying, and the educational psychologists had been trying to commercialise their technology for some time.
Their efforts were rewarded recently when the University of Utah licensed the technology to Credibility Assessment Technologies.
Museum to exhibit prosthetic tech
The renovated Leonardo Museum will feature an exhibit from a prosthetics, rehabilitation and movement technology company when it opens next year, reports The Salt Lake Tribune.
The science, technology and art centre announced it will partner with Otto Bock HealthCare, a German-based prosthetics company with a strong presence in West Valley City. The Innovation Gallery exhibit, which will open with the grand opening of the upgraded Leonardo in April 2011, will feature electrodes, sensors, motors, gears, hydraulics and other components used to help people return to a mobile life.
“The precision and beauty - or science and art - with which Otto Bock creates prosthetic limbs, as well as the personal stories of people using these technologies, support our mission and make the company an ideal first partner,” said Alexandra Hesse, Leonardo's associate executive director.
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