Do you think social networking should always be closed? We don’t. That’s why we have created an open and federated social networking platform that is bootstrapped from email. We call this system Mr. Privacy. Applications built on Mr. Privacy are “social apps” that look nothing like email. Email is used only as a transport and personal database. We choose email because it is more pervasive than ...

Amaç: Bu makale, sağlık hizmetlerinin sunumunda Türkiye sisteminin kapasitesinin bütünüyle arttığı Sağlıkta Dönüşüm Programı (2003-2013) boyunca ve takip eden yıllarda, hastanelerin teknolojik donanımının nasıl değiştiğini açıklığa kavuşturmayı amaçlamaktadır.
 Yöntem: Makalede, hastanelerdeki başlıca tanıya yardımcı tıbbi görüntüleme teknolojilerinin (MR, BT, Ultrason, Doppler EKO) 2002-2...

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