HMRC sees record number of online tax returns
Updated: 2012-02-03 16:39:23
A record 7.65 million people submitted their tax returns online this year, 81% of the total number of tax returns filed, according to HMRC.
Adoption and Meaningful Use of Computerized Physician Order Entry With an Integrated Clinical Decision Support System for Radiology: Ten-Year Analysis in an Urban Teaching Hospital
Updated: 2012-02-03 16:08:19
Source: Ip IK et al, Journal of the American College of Radiology, 9(2) Content: Purpose
The aim of this study was to assess whether an integrated imaging computerized physician order entry (CPOE) system with embedded decision support for imaging can be accepted clinically.
Methods
The study was performed in a health care delivery network with an affiliated academic [...]Innovation and optimisation top UK’s 2012 IT agenda, survey shows
Updated: 2012-02-03 14:55:512012 will be a year of change and smarter working, with IT departments focused on improving processes and finding ânew ways of doing thingsâ, according to a survey by The Corporate IT Forum.Volkswagen UK CIO leaves to go nuclear
Updated: 2012-02-03 14:33:31Nick Gaines, formerly CIO at Volkswagen UK, has left the car firm to join Ultra Electronics Nuclear Control Systems.Cloud-based EHRs raise data rights questions
Updated: 2012-02-03 14:20:44Source: Marla Durben Hirsch, FierceEMR Content: “With cloud-based electronic health record systems becoming more popular, providers should carefully read their vendor contracts regarding their rights and use of their patients’ data, according to American Medical News.
Gerard Nussbaum, director of technology services for the global management consulting firm Kurt Salmon Associates, tells amednews that since the [...]St. Helens and Knowsley NHS trust signs £1.3m storage deal
Updated: 2012-02-03 13:57:33St. Helens and Knowsley Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust has signed a £1.3m deal with EMC as part of its five-year plan to overhaul its storage infrastructure.Security Think Tank: Challenges and opportunities of smartphone security policy (part 4)
Updated: 2012-02-03 11:56:49In many ways, smartphones can be more secure operating platforms than PCs, but there is one major policy issue that needs to be dealt with first, writes John Pescatore, vice-president and distinguished analyst at Gartner.Met Police exposes over 1,000 crime victims’ email addresses
Updated: 2012-02-03 09:10:06The Metropolitan Police has blamed âhuman errorâ for exposing the emails of more than 1,000 crime victims.Reuters Social Pulse
Updated: 2012-02-02 18:57:52Briefly - I just saw that Reuters launched a site which connects the world of journalism with that of the social web: Reuters Social Pulse. This has similarities with what I've been experimenting with at the d8tplex news page which...Using Electronic Medical Records as patient teaching tools
Updated: 2012-02-02 18:00:46Source: Sheri Ross, Technology for Doctors Online Content: “Healthcare providers have a unique opportunity to not only address current or anticipated health problems with their patients, but also to help patients avoid future negative health consequences by teaching them how to care for themselves. Regular reinforcement increases the likelihood that patients will adhere to the [...]New online databases help patients find adverse event
Updated: 2012-02-02 14:44:49Source: Sara Jackson, FierceHealthIT Content: “Two health IT startups aim to help patients sift through the reams of adverse event data collected by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, according to a report today in the Wall Street Journal.
The two companies, AdverseEvents and Clarimed, have developed websites backed by algorithms that sort FDA adverse event [...]Flexibility from hospitals needed for data use to reach its potential
Updated: 2012-02-02 14:40:00Source: Dan Bowman, FierceHealthIT Content: “Information silos in healthcare settings are a primary reason why available data often isn’t used to its fullest potential, concludes Russ Richmond, M.D., CEO of McKinsey Healthcare’s Objective Health consulting firm, in a new post that appears on The Health Care Blog.
Such a failure to “connect the dots” Richmond says, [...]Ofcom reports UK improvement in broadband
Updated: 2012-02-02 14:20:12Boris Johnson says people should go to the pub to avoid massive rush-hour delays during the Olympics, but perhaps teleworking would be better for businessSecurity Think Tank: Challenges and opportunities of smartphone security policy (part 3)
Updated: 2012-02-02 11:45:36The smartphone â and tablet â revolution offers organisations new ways of performing their work and realising tangible benefits. They offer new paths to gain business and competitive advantage by creating new customer services and experiences, and they enhance operational access and flexibility. But these devices present one main problem: how to secure devices which were not necessarily designed and built with business use in mind, writes Adrian Davis, principal research analyst at the Information Security Forum (ISF).MPs call on government to help keep public safe online
Updated: 2012-02-02 11:17:54MPs on the House of Commons Science and Technology Select Committee say the government must do more to help the public understand how to stay safe online.2012: Go Big (Data) or Go Home
Updated: 2012-02-02 10:25:34Source: Janet Dillione, Huffington Post Content: “The adoption of healthcare IT as a means to improve clinical workflow processes and ultimately to improve the delivery of patient care has accelerated. I believe 2012 will be a substantial year for HIT progress on the adoption front, as well as on the innovation front — particularly as [...]Cisco unveils product consolidation plan
Updated: 2012-02-02 10:09:36Cisco has unveiled details of the product line consolidation it hopes will turn around the company after its struggles with poor financial performance.Rising to the information management challenge
Updated: 2012-02-02 10:00:48In a world of increasingly devolved decision making, few would disagree that itâs important to make the right information available to the right people at the right time.Mobile phone chip supplier Qualcomm faces US anti-corruption probe
Updated: 2012-02-02 09:38:53US anti-corruption authorities investigate mobile phone chip-maker Qualcommâs compliance with the 1977 Foreign Corrupt Practices ActFacebook's $5bn IPO falls short of expectations
Updated: 2012-02-02 09:26:34Facebook has filed for a $5bn initial public offering on the US stock market, marking a milestone in the social networking siteâs history.Forrester: Big data – start small, but scale quickly
Updated: 2012-02-02 08:00:10At extreme scale, traditional data management and business intelligence become impractical and companies do not get what they demand â more insight to drive greater business performance.Some Tweet, Some Don't - at Reuters
Updated: 2012-02-02 05:45:28A minor update to the d8taplex news site has An updated set of journalist and editor author identities - now numbering over 500 An indication of the number of followers each tweeting author has An indication as to whether the...Video: What CIOs need to know about IT consumerisation
Updated: 2012-02-02 05:00:00Adrian Drury, practice leader for IT consumerisation at Ovum, discusses device managementElectronic prescription system could help cut errors
Updated: 2012-02-01 17:43:19Source: Amy Corderoy, smh.com.au Content: “Electronic prescribing systems could drastically cut previously intractable hospital medication errors, a study of two Sydney hospitals has found.
The federal government will begin rolling out an e-health system across the country in July, but it has been plagued by criticisms it would not reduce risks for patients and could be [...]Businesses confident of disaster recovery plans in 2012
Updated: 2012-02-01 15:07:33Businesses are more confident in their IT systems' ability to survive a disaster, despite one of the most difficult years in 2011Personal health data better protected by ISO standard
Updated: 2012-02-01 09:30:25Source: The Financial Content: “ISO has published a new technical specification which will increase protection of personal health information processed, stored and transferred by computer systems for subsequent use by clinicians and others in healthcare organizations, according to ISO.
ISO/TS 14265:2011, Health informatics – Classification of purposes for processing personal health information, defines a set of [...]Google+ Is Like 401K For Search
Updated: 2012-02-01 04:56:57I'm trying to figure out which camera to go for: the GoPro or the Contour. When I search on Google for help in finding some way to compare, it was suggested to me to ask on Google+: I then waited...Medical e-record use mandate drawing nearer
Updated: 2012-01-31 18:28:02Source: Kim Bandura, The Morehead News Content: “Technology will be playing a bigger role in patient care than ever before.
Healthcare professionals and their related associates have been mandated by the federal government to abide by “meaningful use” of electronic medical records (EMR) by the end of 2014.
EMR is the electronic version of the paper medical [...]Google Provides Links to Journalists' G+ Profile
Updated: 2012-01-29 16:49:07Google New - which aggregates, clusters and ranks news articles from many sources - recently started including links to the Google+ profiles of journalists. Here we see an example of a link to Shayndi Raice who, with Randall Smith, wrote...Facebook Likes Burgers
Updated: 2012-01-29 02:48:22I found this data mining error on Silo Breaker somehow amusing: The article does mention McDonalds in comparison to Facebook, but Silo Breaker didn't figure out that the article wasn't about McDonalds per se.Bitly Users Vote with their Clicks on Vatican Scandal
Updated: 2012-01-27 02:37:21By far the biggest story right now according to clicks on the bit.ly links to articles published by Reuters (as shown on d8taplex) is: This story doesn't make it on to Google News front page or even their page of...Data Mining Guest Post: Eric Greenwood
Updated: 2012-01-25 18:38:23Today, Eric Greenwood, expert in data storage, is our guest blogger on Data Mining Research. Thanks for his post and feel free to comment about his input. Data Mining, Refining, and Storage As companies are able to more effectively store and retrieve information via online storage services, the relevance of data mining as the crucial first step [...]Super-hot News
Updated: 2012-01-24 02:06:45A simple list of articles may tell you that the ones at the top are 'more something' (relevant, popular, etc.) than those lower, but not by how much. I just noticed on the d8taplex news page that this article, entitled...Journalists' Tweets Provide Additional Story Context
Updated: 2012-01-23 04:49:44I'm watching the bit.ly counts for Reuters story on the RIM guard change continue to jump up on the d8taplex news page. Because the d8taplex page links to the Twitter accounts of the journalists when they are available, I took...Visualizing the ROI of News Articles
Updated: 2012-01-22 18:41:01By filtering on a contributors name (in the example below, I've filtered on the enigmatic Cynthia Johnston) the d8taplex news page can instantly show to what degree the contributors articles are getting attention (according to bit.ly stats). Here we see...Exploring News
Updated: 2012-01-21 00:15:14In experimenting with news aggregation and mining on the d8taplex site, I've come up with the following questions: Why are some news articles picked up and others not? News sources such as Reuters create articles that are either directly consumed...Data Mining Book Review: Decision Management Systems
Updated: 2012-01-16 16:54:09
I recently read the last book from James Taylor, Decision Management Systems: A Practical Guide to Using Business Rules and Predictive Analytics. As a data miner, I was interested by the subtitle of the book. Although, the book is really well written, I’m a bit disappointed regarding the content for someone in analytics. I was [...]New data mining blogs
Updated: 2012-01-08 20:52:52It is my pleasure to welcome two new data mining blogs in the data mining blogosphere. I have of course added them to the data mining big list of blogs: Inside Data Mining: Blog written by the two authors of the excellent Data Mining Techniques in CRM, Antonios Chorianopoulos and Konstantinos Tsiptsis. The blog is about [...]