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Continua Health Alliance, an international non-profit, open industry organization of 240 healthcare and technology companies, has announced the public release its 2010 Design Guidelines, which Continua executives describe as the pathway for the creation of an end-to-end personal connected healthcare solution.

A new poll shows most people trust health and medical research information provided by traditional news sources over social media and mobile devices.According to a statewide survey, commissioned by Research!America, most Maryland residents trust the health and medical research information provided by traditional media - newspapers (77 percent), television (71 percent), magazines (68 percent), radio (66 percent) - and the Internet (66 percent).

There's wonderful information technology in the World of Health IT exhibit hall, said Microsoft's Bill Crounse here in Budapest, but it's what you do with the information that counts.Crounse, senior director of Worldwide Health for Microsoft, provided eHealth Week attendees with a tour of numerous advances in healthcare technology emerging throughout the world, while emphasizing the importance of putting patients in control of healthcare IT.