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• 10 questions for Sesame Communications CFO Jon Engman

  -- Name: Jon Engman

• Physicians using tablets to treat patients

  Within the next year, almost half of all doctors will be using tablets and other mobile devices to perform everyday tasks, such as accessing patient information in electronic medical records (EMRs), according to the <a href="http://www.comptia.org/news/pressreleases/11-11-16/Healthcare_Practices_Embrace_Mobile_Technologies_New_CompTIA_Research_Reveals.aspx">survey by the Computing Technology Industry Association</a> (CompTIA), a nonprofit group.

• Medical research group skips 40G, makes 'right move' to 100G Ethernet

  Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI), a nonprofit medical research organization, has implemented a <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/111909-100g-ethernet-cheatsheet.html">100G Ethernet network</a> to boost bandwidth for advanced data analysis.

• New computer can diagnose breast cancer better than docs

  The method for diagnosing breast cancer has gone mostly unchanged since the 1920s: doctors examine a small set of cancer cells to determine the disease's aggressiveness and the patient's prognosis.

• Toyota expects to offer health care robots in 2013

  Toyota Motor Corp. is bringing high tech to health care, as it works on a family of robots geared to lift patients and help the paralyzed walk.

• How e-health records improve healthcare: a cancer patient's story

  Pam Crum was 22 weeks pregnant in October 2004 when she noticed a red rash on one breast. Her doctor thought it was simply an inflammation that sometimes occurs in lactating mothers. Over a couple of weeks, the rash worsened. Then a lump formed.

• IBM turns up Watson-like natural language healthcare analytics

  IBM today said it was rolling out software that will help doctors and insurance companies reduce costs by better analyzing and managing huge amount of patient data.

• Wash your hands: ATMs are germ havens

  Swab tests recently conducted of public surfaces in six major cities revealed that ATMs are among the worst carriers of illness-causing germs.

• Test Aims to Disprove Data Center Dogma

  Since January, David Filas, a data center engineer at Trinity Health, has been running decommissioned servers, networking gear and storage systems in a simple generator shed on the grounds of the healthcare provider's headquarters in Novi, Mich.

• Defense Dept. hit with $4.9B lawsuit over data breach

  The U.S. Department of Defense has been hit with a $4.9 billion lawsuit over a recently disclosed data breach involving <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9220398/Update_Data_breach_affects_4.9M_active_retired_military_personnel">TRICARE</a> , a healthcare system for active and retired military personnel and their families.

• Cisco loses out as Brocade wins healthcare software company business

  A healthcare software provider has upgraded its Gigabit Ethernet network to improve service to customers and reduce errors during backup.

• Data breach affects 4.9M active, retired military personnel

  Sensitive data including Social Security Numbers, names, addresses, phone numbers and personal health data belonging to about 4.9 million active and retired U.S. military personnel may have been compromised after backup tapes containing the data went missing recently.

• Scientists read minds (sort of), create brain scan video

  If you ever wanted to see what your brain sees when you're watching Nyan Cat or a YouTube video, this is it. University of California, Berkeley researchers have recreated videos by scanning a person's brain.

• Online gamers solve AIDS retroviral puzzle for scientists

  After failing to figure out the crystal structure of an AIDS retrovirus enzyme responsible for how HIV multiplies, scientists crowd-sourced the effort to the gaming community, which was able to decipher the structure in a matter of days.

• Mobile startups push health at Demo

  Smartphones can help make people healthier, according to three startups that stood out among young mobile companies presenting their ideas at the Demo Fall conference this week.