PURPOSE One of the many challenges clinicians face is applying growing medical knowledge to specific patients; however, there is an information gap between information needs and delivery. Digital information resources could potentially bridge this gap. Because most medical students are exposed to personal computers throughout their education, this study postulated that students may be more comf...

This paper describes a research project about robot control across a computing Grid, first step toward a Grid solution for generic process control. A computational Grid can significantly improve remote robot control. It can choose at any time the most suitable machine for each task, transparently run redundant computations for critical operations, adding fault tolerance, allowing robotic system...

Home healthcare and hospice clinicians are increasingly working with patients for whom English is not their primary language. Provision of culturally respectful and acceptable patient-centered care includes both an awareness of cultural beliefs that influence the patient's health and also the ability to provide the patient with health information in the language with which he or she is most com...