Search

The article looks at the challenges and rewards of digitization of health records in Great Britain. A particular focus is given to a digital system called eHospital used by Cambridge University Hospitals National Health Service (NHS) Foundation Trust. It is noted that electronic records provide nurses and other clinicians faster access to more comprehensive patient information. The advantage of electronic health records to the management of teams is also discussed.

The article presents a practical clinical diagnostic technique by George M. Whitesides and his coworkers at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Their photolithography technique is a low-cost, portable, and simple multiplexed bioassays out of paper that can detect clinical relevant concentrations of glucose and protein. It involves soaking chromatography paper in photoresist, using a mask and ultraviolet light.