• The Relationship Between Electronic Health Records and Malpractice Claims

    Updated: 2012-06-30 15:17:23
    Source: Kats AM. Archives of Internal Medicine, 2012 Content: Federal policies have created incentives for the adoption and meaningful use of electronic health records (EHRs). While EHRs enhance documentation, make visits more efficient, reduce medication errors, and allow providers to track and manage their entire patient population, some physicians harbor reservations about potential unintended consequences [...]

  • Electronic health records and patient privacy go beyond technical security practices

    Updated: 2012-06-30 14:43:43
    Source: Dennis Stufft, McKnight's Content: “Gone are the days of paper files and hastily tracking patient care on the backs of tongue depressors and other medical paraphernalia. With the shift to electronic health records (EHRs) well underway at assisted living and long-term care communities, patients, clinical staff and administration alike have much to look forward [...]

  • Companies fail to secure virtual environments

    Updated: 2012-06-29 15:36:49
    A third of companies admit they have not invested in security for their virtual computing environments, a survey has revealed

  • Delta brings Wi-Fi to international flights

    Updated: 2012-06-29 11:40:33
    The US airline will enable Wi-Fi connectivity on its flights serving the UK, along with its other international destinations

  • Universities deliver HPC for business via the cloud

    Updated: 2012-06-29 10:44:08
    The University of Cambridge and Imperial College are pooling their resources to create a high-performance computing (HPC) service that will offer some of the UK’s fastest computer resources to industry through the cloud

  • Security firm LogRhythm lands $15m investment

    Updated: 2012-06-29 08:30:47
    Cyber security and compliance firm LogRhythm has secured $15m investment funding for product innovation and international expansion

  • Analytics 2012: Feedback from the conference

    Updated: 2012-06-28 18:54:20
    I’m back from Analytics 2012 in Cologne (Germany). It was an excellent 2-days conference organized by SAS. More than 400 participants from 32 countries. Keynote talks discussed topics such as big data (classical nowadays), high-performance analytics (SAS-oriented), social network mining (so trendy) and text analytics. Some keynotes were very interesting, but the added value was [...]

  • Underwater wireless helps swimmers prepare for the Olympics

    Updated: 2012-06-28 15:30:41
    New sensor and data transfer technologies from Loughborough University are helping Team GB’s swimming team train for the games

  • Patients say they want tech tools to manage their health, but do they really?

    Updated: 2012-06-25 15:29:57
    Source: Susan D. Hall, FierceHealthIT Content: “Contrary to some previous research, the vast majority of patients in an Accenture poll said they want to use technology to manage their own healthcare. In the survey of 1,100 U.S. patients, 90 percent prefer web-based access to health information and education, and 72 percent want to book, change or [...]

  • 10 Most read articles week 17 June 2012

    Updated: 2012-06-25 08:06:06
    Source: Lodewijk Bos, ICMCC Content: The Status of Telestroke in the United States: A Survey of Currently Active Stroke Telemedicine Programs Internet use by cancer patients: should oncologists ‘prescribe’ accurate web sites in combination with chemotherapy? A survey in a Spanish cohort Doctors are using electronic records more – but liking them less “Non Structured Data [...]

  • Bing's Evolving Local Search

    Updated: 2012-06-23 17:00:27
    Recently, there have been a number of announcements regarding the redesign of Bing's main search experience. The key difference is the use of three parallel zones in the SERP. Along with the traditional page results area, there are two new...

  • 47 percent of adults use the Internet to find information about their health

    Updated: 2012-06-22 14:35:25
    Source: Nicola Ziady, Ragan’s Health care Communication News Content: “E-patients, otherwise known as Internet patients, are health consumers who use the Web to find information about medical conditions. These savvy surfers use electronic communication to find information for family, friends and their own ailments. E-patients are equipped, enabled, empowered, engaged, equals, emancipated and experts. E-patients report two outcomes [...]

  • Study examines use of a natural language processing tool for electronic health records in assessing colonoscopy quality

    Updated: 2012-06-22 10:03:11
    Source: Science Codex Content: “A new study shows that natural language processing programs can “read” dictated reports and provide information to allow measurement of colonoscopy quality in an inexpensive, automated and efficient manner. The quality variation observed in the study within a single academic hospital system reinforces the need for routine quality measurement. The study [...]

  • U.S. Healthcare Needs Data Standards, Registries, Study Says

    Updated: 2012-06-22 01:54:42
    Source: Nicole Lewis, InformationWeek Healthcare Content: “Due to the highly complex and fragmented nature of the U.S. healthcare system, developing a value-based healthcare model nationwide remains a daunting challenge, a new study from the Boston Consulting Group concludes. The study, Progress Toward Value-Based Health Care, examined the progress toward implementing a value-based healthcare system in 12 [...]

  • “Non Structured Data Is More Valuable to Practitioners Than Discrete Research Oriented Data”

    Updated: 2012-06-20 15:35:44
    Source: John, EMR and EHR Content: “I love people that make strong statements and this is no exception. This is a comment that will no doubt hit people the wrong way when you consider how much focus things like meaningful use have focused on discrete data. I can already hear the chorus of doctors asking [...]

  • JAMIA: Survey results suggest strong CPOE showing

    Updated: 2012-06-19 18:33:21
    Source: Jeff Byers, CMIO Content: “According to survey results of 34 community hospitals, each with over five years of experience with computerized physician order entry (CPOE), the national policies to promote clinical decision support (CDS) use may be successful. Published June 15 in the Journal of the Medical Informatics Association, Joan S. Ash, PhD, MBA, of [...]

  • Standard practices for computerized clinical decision support in community hospitals: a national survey

    Updated: 2012-06-19 18:27:55
    Source: Ash JS et al, J Am Med Inform Assoc, 2012 Content: Objective Computerized provider order entry (CPOE) with clinical decision support (CDS) can help hospitals improve care. Little is known about what CDS is presently in use and how it is managed, however, especially in community hospitals. This study sought to address this knowledge gap [...]

  • How diagnosis codes can improve patient care

    Updated: 2012-06-19 17:08:55
    Source: Carl Natale, ICD10 Watch Content: “One of the benefits promised in ICD-10 implementation is an increase of clinical data. Which will lead to better medical care. How that will happen isn’t all that clear. But Gregory Goth explains how researchers can use natural language processing (NLP) to analyze medical data. The NLP is used to mine [...]

  • Microsoft Surface : Bigger than Windows 8 and Bing

    Updated: 2012-06-19 02:44:15
    I've been reading the coverage on the new Microsoft tablet launch - the very cool looking Surface. Over on track // microsoft, the twitter buzz seems pretty hot. I note that the main cluster around the launch has perhaps the...

  • Data Mining Book Review: Data Mining with Microsoft SQL Server 2008

    Updated: 2012-06-17 16:55:18
    If you are using Microsoft data mining tools, this book is a must have. Written by MacLennan, Tang and Crivat, it describes how to perform data mining using SQL Server 2008. The book is huge – more than 630 pages – but it is normal since authors give detailed explanation for each data mining function. [...]

  • Data Mining Guest Post: Erin Palmer

    Updated: 2012-06-10 16:54:13
    Today’s guest post is written by Erin Palmer from University Alliance. Thanks Erin for sharing your knowledge in the field of business intelligence and data mining. Benefits of Using Data to Make Decisions It has been said that what gets measured gets done, and this is perhaps the key factor in why data analytics leads to a [...]

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