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• Google taps fitness tracker market with $2.1 billion bid for Fitbit

  ​Google will buy Fitbit Inc for US$2.1 billion, as the biggest Web search company looks to take on Apple and Samsung in the crowded market for fitness trackers and smart watches.

• CIO to CDO: Shayne Hunter takes top data and digital role at Ministry of Health

  Hunter has been working in the health and disability sector for the past 15 years

• The science behind, and risk of, going with your gut

  Sometimes the ‘now’ can be very powerful. Good decision-making for the future is often compromised by our impulse to pursue instant gratification — at the expense of better long-term outcomes, writes Bob Weir of Pinpoint Business

• Digital Advisory Board replaces National Health IT Board

  The Ministry of Health has scrapped it National Health IT Board, replacing it with a Digital Advisory Board.

• Why hackers love health apps

  Hackers love health apps because their popularity has outpaced the industry's ability to safeguard them. Technology experts discussed the privacy and security risks at a House hearing July 14 with the Energy and Commerce subcommittee.

• Should hospitals pay up when it comes to ransomware?

  Has the recent wave of ransomware attacks aimed at hospitals been a wakeup call for the healthcare industry? Or is this latest security plague just part of the new normal?

• Mobile App Helps You Fight Chronic Pain From Your Desk

  Experience chronic neck or back pain? Headaches or migraines? That expensive, ergonomic chair might be doing you more harm than good. But Voom, a mobile wellness app developed by two chiropractors, aims to tackle repetitive stress injuries.

• Five easy tips for CIO fitness

  The <a href="http://www.cio.com/article/221217/A_Few_Tips_for_Staying_Healthy_in_a_Stressful_Job">stress</a> of the recession has literally driven some executives to total exhaustion. And yet in times like these, it's more important than ever to exercise, says Dr. Suzanne Steinbaum, a cardiologist who is also director of Women and Heart Disease at the Heart and Vascular Institute of Lenox Hill Hospital in New York. "Exercise does release endorphins in the system and can really help" reduce stress, she says.

Whitepapers about health

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  Teleworking toward a healthy recovery

  With EmblemHealth’s company headquarters flooded after Hurricane Sandy in 2012, this paper explains how a mobile laptop solution enabled displaced employees to work remotely and maintain productivity. • Hurricane Sandy’s surge swamped the building’s sublevels, where its mechanical and electrical systems reside, rendering it uninhabitable for three months • Employees who were working remotely could access the company’s intranet to get updates as needed • Corporate notebooks were also essential to mobile workers such as visiting nurses and health coaches

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  Reducing Telephony Costs in Healthcare