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Updated: 2012-12-31 01:15:45
Ten of the best in-depth reports for CIOs and IT professionals published in 2012
A semantic-web oriented representation of the clinical element model for secondary use of electronic health records data
Updated: 2012-12-29 15:53:20
The clinical element model (CEM) is an information model designed for representing clinical information in electronic health records (EHR) systems across organizations. The current representation of CEMs does not support formal semantic definitions and therefore it is not possible to perform reasoning and consistency checking on derived models. This paper introduces our efforts to represent [...]The implications of e-health system delivery strategies for integrated healthcare: Lessons from England
Updated: 2012-12-29 14:43:38Purpose
This paper explores the implications that different technical strategies for sharing patient information have for healthcare workers and, as a consequence, for the extent to which these systems provide support for integrated care.
Methods
Four technical strategies were identified and the forms of coupling they made with healthcare agencies were classified. A study was [...]Hospitals to implement child protection database to log children who visit A&E
Updated: 2012-12-28 09:42:43The Department of Health is introducing a £9m child protection information system to log children who visit A&E in hospitalsGuest Post: Mark Zielinski
Updated: 2012-12-27 20:44:34
Today, I have the pleasure to welcome Mark Zielinski, co-founder and former director at Winning Research in Toronto. He writes about analyzing social network traffic to better understand patterns and derive knowledge from them. Thanks for your contribution Mark.
Since late 2011, the market research industry and market research technology in general has been very [...]Nova Scotia patients to manage health records online
Updated: 2012-12-27 17:55:52“Patients in Nova Scotia will soon be able to log on to a website to get test results, view medical records and book doctors’ appointments. A new pilot project announced by the provincial Health Department will allow about 3,000 patients and their doctors in the Halifax area to communicate through a web portal instead of [...]ONC plans stronger EHR, patient safety features
Updated: 2012-12-27 16:09:26“The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT wants to use electronic health record certification criteria to make it easier for physicians to report patient safety events, which provide critical raw data for developers, healthcare providers, researchers and policymakers to improve the safety of health IT and make care safer.
The Agency for Healthcare Research [...]Facebook pays £2.6m tax on £840m profit
Updated: 2012-12-24 11:29:17The social networking giant faces criticism for paying minimal tax by pushing all of its operations outside of the US through IrelandFourth Generation HIE Improves Patient Outcomes
Updated: 2012-12-19 09:26:20“Health care providers have some heavy lifting to do. They are expected to lift health care quality scores and improve health care processes while managing dwindling resources. Collaboration is the key to this dilemma, and a new generation of Health Information Exchange (HIE) is the enabling technology.
At Sandlot Solutions, we use “Fourth Generation HIE” to [...]Teaching Med Students about Computers an Important Lesson
Updated: 2012-12-19 09:20:26“The recent explosion of interest in computers and the demand that they be made an integral part of the healthcare delivery process has introduced a new dimension to the knowledge and experience that a physician must have to practice effectively and prudently.
Medical schools, hewing to the general trends in education, have not incorporated instruction in [...]ONC Finalizes 2014 Test Methods for EHR Certification
Updated: 2012-12-18 17:35:45“The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT has finalized and formally approved the 2014 Edition Test Method for Electronic Health Record Certification following a comprehensive public review and comment process.
Test procedures, test data and test tools will now be available to help providers test and certify EHR systems under ONC’s HIT Certification Program.”
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Kathleen [...]Meaningful Use Stage 3 Could Include Patient-Generated Health Data
Updated: 2012-12-18 16:16:18“The Health IT Policy Committee is seeking public comment on a proposed Stage 3 meaningful use recommendation to require providers to accept patient-generated health data.
According to the Policy Committee, one way health care providers could electronically accept such information would be to develop “semi-structured questions” and choose information “that is most relevant for their patients [...]Applying semantic web technologies for phenome-wide scan using an electronic health record linked Biobank
Updated: 2012-12-18 10:16:23“The ability to conduct genome-wide association studies (GWAS) has enabled new exploration of how genetic variations contribute to health and disease etiology. However, historically GWAS have been limited by inadequate sample size due to associated costs for genotyping and phenotyping of study subjects.
This has prompted several academic medical centers to form “biobanks”where biospecimens linked to [...]Future of electronic health records: implications for decision support
Updated: 2012-12-17 17:44:40The potential benefits of the electronic health record over traditional paper are many, including cost containment, reductions in errors, and improved compliance by utilizing real-time data. The highest functional level of the electronic health record (EHR) is clinical decision support (CDS) and process automation, which are expected to enhance patient health and healthcare. The authors [...]Data Mining Book Review: Future Ready
Updated: 2012-12-16 19:25:01
If you are working on forecasting, you may be interested by the book from Steve Morlidge and Steve Player: Future Ready – How to master business forecasting. Whereas Dance with Chance was more about the limitations of forecasting, the present book is about the way to apply forecasting to existing businesses.
Let’s [...]Google's Year in Local Search
Updated: 2012-12-14 23:53:49At the beginning of the year, Google's results page for {restaurants in seattle} looked like this: Note: the size of the map, the presence and colouration of the main column ad block and the use of the restaurant's web page...An automated tool for detecting medication overuse based on the electronic health records
Updated: 2012-12-14 15:38:04PURPOSE:
Medication overuse is a serious concern in healthcare as it leads to increased expenditures, side effects, and morbidities. Identifying overuse is only possible through excluding appropriate indications that are primarily mentioned in unstructured notes. We developed a framework for automatic identification of medication overuse and applied it to proton pump inhibitors (PPIs).
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We first created [...]Snorkel* and Surf* in Kauai and Maui
Updated: 2012-12-08 05:20:56When I pushed out the first version of Beach G33k / Beach Ball (I'm not actually sure what the thing is called) - a search engine for beaches - I did as close to nothing in terms of features as...New Data Mining Blogs
Updated: 2012-12-07 23:14:19Here are three new data mining blogs I added to the List of Data Mining Blogs: Data Mining and Reporting (Rosaria Silipo): A focus on customer intelligence and KNIME tool. Contains a lot of examples and screenshots for KNIME users. Deep Data Mining (Jiang Zhou): Technical blog with a focus on Oracle. Several pieces of codes are [...]