News: Home as the Hub of Health Care

Many in government and society are banking on driving down the cost of health care with portable medical monitoring devices for the home and electronic medical records for the hospital and doctor's office. Much headway has been made on the hardware and software, but many policy issues remain. How to keep medical information from unauthorized eyes, who will pay for converting paper records to electronic files, and standards for the devices and the record-keeping systems themselves are just a few of the issues. Read on at http://bmsmail3.ieee.org:80/u/3349/41409275