by medicaltechont | Feb 7, 2015 | Canada, Healthcare, Hospitals, private clinics
The Supreme Court of Canada decision Friday to allow people with “grievous and irremediable medical conditions” to ask for doctor-assisted suicide should be just the start of a national conversation about end-of-life care in the country, doctors say.
“The Supreme Court has lit a fire under us,” Dr. James Downar, Co-Chair of the Physicians Advisory Council for Dying with Dignity, said in an interview.
“It’s time to talk, we can’t put it off any more.”
http://www.cbc.ca/m/news/health/doctor-assisted-death-physicians-want-more-palliative-care-as-well-1.2948265
by medicaltechont | Jan 21, 2015 | Microsoft, Technology
What’s New Now?: Microsoft Unveils HoloLens and S…: http://youtu.be/9lL7HNIK04g
by medicaltechont | Jan 17, 2015 | Security
When the Heartbleed vulnerability made headlines last spring, Internet companies went into a frenzy: Creating patches, moving away from OpenSSL, and warning users to reset their passwords.
But while we haven’t heard much about it lately — and many servers have been updated to avoid it — Heartbleed is still very much a problem.
The problem is that OpenSSL is in everything.
“It’s an infrastructure hack, and it’s deep … it puts into question everything that we use on the Internet,” said Sami Nassar, CEO of secure element chip maker NXP.
He calls Heartbleed the death knell for SSL. While some will argue that SSL became obsolete a long time ago, its use is still pervasive. So what’s scary to Nassar is that though the news cycle around Heartbleed ended long ago, the damages are still ravaging on.
Read more at VB News
