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The Frederiksberg University Hospital in Copenhagen looks like any other hospital in the developed world, except for one notable absence: there are no clipboards. Instead, doctors and nurses carry wireless handheld computers to call up the medical records of each patient, including their prescription history and drug allergies. If a...
Denmark has a centralized computer database to which 98% of primary care physicians, all hospital physicians and all pharmacists now have access. Danish residents can gain access to their own records through a secure website. The website alerts the patient by email if a doctor, pharmacist or nurse views their...
At Frederiksburg Hospital, Dr Phanareth and his PHD student Anders Kjaer are running the first randomized study ever made to show that patients with exacerbation of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) - the group responsible for 10% of all hospital admissions in the country - can be treated at home using telemedicine...
In April 1980, a downtown in the economy caused thousands of dissatisfied Cubans to seek political asylum in foreign countries. Anyone who wanted to leave, Castro announced, could do so through its northwestern port, Mariel Harbor. Over the next six months 125,000 Cubans clambered onto boats and made their...
Lugo, meanwhile, is using his election anniversary to help make Paraguayans forget the affair. This week he moved up the start of what he calls the "relaunching" of his government to accelerate sorely needed but stalled projects like hospital and health-care reform and an offensive against Paraguay's deep...