Announcement
AATP Interactive now offers exclusive up-to-the-minute News Feeds from the most important sources for technology and psychiatry news anywhere.
Using the technology of RSS feeds, AATP Interactive can now pull in the current headlines of a number of news sources including the New York Times Technolology Section, Google Technology, Psychscape Weblog, TechKnow Weblog, Wired Magazine, Medscape Psychiatry and more.
The term is News Aggegrator. You can buy news aggregators that will bring current news headlines to your desktop but AATP understands that we need to be informed and we have created a news aggregation page for you.
Keeping Up With Information
How can we keep up with the rapid pace of information? We do this by scanning headlines and choosing those items that interest us the most. Now you can access the latest news automatically updated daily on the AATP news page.
Try it! Come back often, it is quite addictive.
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AATP News can also be accessed by clicking on the AATP News link on the right.
To learn more about RSS feeds check out the article on Searchenginewatch
One of the major questions that gets asked immediately after we are impressed with the technology of telepsychiatry, is 'how financially viable is this process.' The equipment is often expensive and the technical complexities can be a deterrant to implementation.
In this month's Psychiatric Services, Steven E. Hyler, M.D. and Dinu P. Gangure, M.D looked at 380 telepsychiatry studies published from 1956 through 2002 and selected 12 of these to evaluate for cost-feasibility, cost surveys, direct comparison of costs of telepsychiatry and in-person psychiatry, and finally cost analysis.
This survey concluded that telepsychiatry can be cost-effective in selected settings (e.g. geriatrics) and can be financially viable if used beyond the break-even point in relation to the cost of providing in-person psychiatric services. As technology becomes more sophisticated and the cost of equipment continues to drop, hopefully we can focus less on the financial aspects of this valuable technology and spend more time delineating the clinical specifics of when and where telepsychchiatry can be an effective and useful treatment modality.
In-cites maintains a listing of the most cited scientists, journals, institutions and countries.
Here are the most cited researchers in Psychiatry & Psychology. If you are suprised, then you should be reading more.
As we all are painfully aware, spam has incresed 38.5% this year according to MessageLabs a mail filtering service. This represents roughly 34% of email sent or one message in 2.6. Viruses as attachments to emails have also increased about 13% over the previous month. MessageLabs offers some interesting charts on the flow of viruses, spam and pornogrphy through email systems.
SPAM revisited
Much to the chagrin of Hormel Foods, maker of the canned "Shoulder Pork and hAM"/"SPiced hAM" luncheon meat, the term "spam" has today come to mean network abuse, particularly junk E-mail and massive junk postings to USENET groups.
As described in Wired, "according to Hormel, culpability for the adoption of "spam" as a synonym for junk e-mail rests squarely with British Comedy troupe Monty Python. It all started with an old Monty Python skit in which a group of Vikings sing a chorus of "SPAM, SPAM, SPAM..." at increasing volumes in an attempt to drown out other conversation. The analogy to modern-day spam applied, Hormel said, because unsolicited e-mail is seen as drowning out normal discourse on the Internet."
Brad Templeton also offers another view of the history of spam.