• Independence Blue Cross adds online information for members

    Updated: 2010-07-31 07:26:23
    Source: IFAwebnews Content: “Independence Blue Cross (IBC) is offering its members more personalized online information about their health, a move it says coincides with health reform’s passage. “As the Amazon.com experience is to the savvy shopper, the ibxpress.com experience is to the smart health care consumer,” said a statement from the Philadelpha, Pa.-based IBC.” Article IFAwebnews, 30 July [...]

  • Tracking the Evolution of HIEs

    Updated: 2010-07-31 06:30:57
    Source: Mark Hagland, Healthcare Informatics Content: “Last week, the Washington, D.C.-based eHealth Initiative presented a one-day forum on the development of health information exchanges (HIEs). In conjunction with that event, held in Washington, D.C., the eHealth Initiative organization released the results of a nationwide survey of HIEs. Jennifer Covich, chief executive officer of eHealth Initiative, [...]

  • The impact of an integrated hospital-community medical information system on quality and service utilization in hospital departments

    Updated: 2010-07-30 16:13:58
    Source: Nirel N et al, International journal of medical informatics, 2010 Content: PURPOSE: In 2005, an innovative system of hospital-community on-line medical records (OFEK) was implemented at Clalit Health Services (CHS). The goals of the study were to examine the extent of OFEK’s use and its impact on quality indicators and medical-service utilization in Internal Medicine [...]

  • The July HIT Standards Committee

    Updated: 2010-07-30 09:28:55
    Source: John Halamka, Life as a Healthcare CIO Content: “The July HIT Standards Committee meeting focused on a review of the final Meaningful Use/Standards regulations and the processes for the next stage of our work. Today, the Federal Register published the Meaningful Use Final Rule (down to 276 pages from 874) and the Standards and Certification [...]

  • Health IT Alone Won’t Improve Primary Care

    Updated: 2010-07-30 08:36:04
    Source: Nicole Lewis, InformationWeek Healthcare Content: “Health information technology can be a strong facilitator for the establishment of the patient centered medical home (PCMH), but health IT alone is not a panacea for building an efficient model, a government study reveals. Published last month by the Department of Health and Human Services’ Agency for Healthcare Research [...]

  • Switching to electronic medical records

    Updated: 2010-07-30 08:01:07
    Source: Matt Glynn, Buffalo News Content: “The shift toward electronic medical records is taking root, a change that should benefit doctors and patients alike. That was the message from members of a panel discussion hosted Wednesday by Infotech Niagara, an information technology group. Electronic medical records bring together a patient’s health history from different sources. The goal [...]

  • Behavioral health offers cues for privacy control

    Updated: 2010-07-30 07:55:20
    Source: Joseph Conn, ModernHealthcare Content: “As a federal policy battle looms over the extent to which patients will exercise control over the movement of their electronic health records, one outstanding question is: Will electronic health-record systems be able to give practitioners and patients the level of consent management they’ll need or want? A possible answer might [...]

  • Visualizing Economics, Catherine Mulbrandon's Blog

    Updated: 2010-07-30 03:51:18
    I've just stumbled across Visualizing Economics - a blog by Catherine Mulbrandon. The title pretty much says it all, so please take a look.

  • Google, Microsoft and Cash Cows

    Updated: 2010-07-30 03:42:28
    Two interesting posts of late: Don Dodge (former Microsoft evangelist and now a Google evangelist) writing about misplaced expectations for Microsoft stock in MSFT earnings up, stock down. What do investors want? and Michael V. Copeland and Seth Weintraub at...

  • Tech Travels Japan

    Updated: 2010-07-30 02:07:31
    Just back from a quick trip to Japan, I thought I'd write up some thoughts and observations about the trip from a technology point of view. All told, Japan is a far more technologically integrated country than any other I've...

  • Q2 2010: State of the mobile health industry

    Updated: 2010-07-29 17:52:40
    Source: Brian Dolan, mobihealthnews Content: “April, May, June. These months are typically a time for rebirth, regeneration and springing forth from the winter doldrums. While the mobile health industry certainly made strides during the second quarter of 2010, we didn’t see too many corners turned or any obvious watershed moments. That said, there were highlights. [...]

  • We call “the crowd” to help define a definition of Health 2.0.

    Updated: 2010-07-29 17:49:47
    Source: lucien engelen’s posterous Content: “After our systematic review about the definition of Health 2.0, one of our next steps will be sorting out what “the crowd” thinks that has to be part of a definition of Health 2.0. For this purpose we’ve set up a little questionnaire that you could fill in below.” Article lucien engelen’s [...]

  • Regulation and innovation: is a collision inevitable?

    Updated: 2010-07-29 16:29:04
    Source: Jeff Rowe, Healthcare IT HITECHWatch Content: “Yesterday we noted the lament of a healthcare CIO who says the currently available suite of EMR products will not produce the results that HIT advocates would like. But if a recent surge in IT investment holds up, perhaps the day is not too far off when new, more [...]

  • E-mail could be good for your patients’ health

    Updated: 2010-07-29 15:56:08
    Source: Pamela Lewis Dolan, amednews Content: “There is a strong link between patients’ ability to e-mail physicians and improved patient outcomes, concludes a study conducted by Kaiser Permanente. Kaiser retrospectively observed 35,423 patients with diabetes, hypertension or both in its Southern California region from February 2005 to December 2008. It found that within any two-month period, [...]

  • Glucose Monitors Get Under the Skin

    Updated: 2010-07-29 15:40:39
    Source: Emily Singer, Technology Review Content: “Researchers have successfully tested a fully implantable glucose-monitoring device in pigs for nearly two years, according to new research published today in Science Translational Medicine. Scientists plan to file for approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to begin human tests. Eventually, researchers aim to couple this kind [...]

  • HIT Standards Committee: Don’t fix what isn’t broken

    Updated: 2010-07-29 10:57:44
    Source: Hilary Stout, The New York Times Content: “In the wee hours of July 14, Elizabeth Roach, a 70-year-old widow, got out of bed and went to the living room of her Virginia ranch home. She sat in her favorite chair for 15 minutes, then returned to bed. She rose again shortly after 6, went to [...]

  • Google Pitches Wave For Health Records

    Updated: 2010-07-29 07:10:53
    Source: Thomas Claburn, InformationWeek Content: “Google Wave, envisioned as a reinvention of e-mail, is not likely to replace e-mail anytime soon. But Google may have found a use for its real-time communications platform beyond puzzling people. Wave it seems is good for your health records. That’s what some Google engineers intend to argue at USENIX HealthSec [...]

  • Achieving “Meaningful Use” of Electronic Health Records Through the Integration of the Nursing Management Minimum Data Set

    Updated: 2010-07-29 06:17:26
    Source: Westra BL et al, The Journal of Nursing Administration, 40(7/8) Content: OBJECTIVE: To update the definitions and measures for the Nursing Management Minimum Data Set (NMMDS). BACKGROUND: Meaningful use of electronic health records includes reuse of the data for quality improvement. Nursing management data are essential to explain variances in outcomes. The NMMDS is a research-based [...]

  • Amazing Physics Simulations from Lagoa

    Updated: 2010-07-28 01:08:32
    Vu Nguyen posts this amazing video from Lagoa. Lagoa Multiphysics 1.0 - Teaser from Thiago Costa on Vimeo. The company behind this video is somewhat ellusive (a website with their name currently just hosts this video).

  • Worst Practices in Data Mining

    Updated: 2010-07-27 20:36:50
    I recently read the article Worst practices in business forecasting written by Michael Gilliland and Udo Sglavo. It is published in the July/August issue of AnalyticsMagazine, which is by the way an excellent journal about analytics. In their article, the authors are looking for the reasons why forecasts are sometimes completely wrong. According to them, [...]

  • Crowd Sourcing Butterfly Conservation

    Updated: 2010-07-27 12:26:30
    The BBC writes about an effort in the UK to use crowd sourcing to populate data recording the number of different types of butterflies: the Big Butterfly Count. Participants are asked to spend 15 minutes spotting butterflies and moths. The...

  • Augmented Reality - 17 years from Concept to Product?

    Updated: 2010-07-26 04:19:04
    Almost twenty years ago, I recall coming across a paper (either in the AI library in Edinburgh, or the Computer Science library in Cambridge) which described an augmented reality approach to that most intractable of problems: fixing printers. A number...

  • You Think You've Got Problems?

    Updated: 2010-07-25 12:30:50
    I'm re-reading Mosteller's Fifty Challenging Problems in Probability With Solutions while traveling in Japan. This is absolutely one of my favourite books (not least because it is such a tiny volume). Fredrick Mosteller was "one of the most eminent statisticians...

  • Task Oriented Search (Bing), Task Oriented Browsing (Firefox) - Let's Dance!

    Updated: 2010-07-24 01:27:47
    I've just watched the video introducing Firefox's TabCandy: An Introduction to Firefox's Tab Candy from Aza Raskin on Vimeo. Much of what is presented is not novel - but novelty is not the heart of innovation. Execution is, and TabCandy...

  • Facebook Using Tagged Photos for Authentication

    Updated: 2010-07-20 10:54:16
    Logging on to Facebook from Japan triggered a lengthy authentication process. Having only used the site from US IPs logging in from a Japanese address forced me to go through an authentication process which involved answering a number of face...

  • Checking In to Japan on Foursquare

    Updated: 2010-07-20 00:30:22
    I've just done my first Japan checkin on...

  • World Programming System: An Alternative to SAS

    Updated: 2010-07-19 16:39:31
    In an earlier post, I was mentioning two ways to reduce the SAS licence costs. The first one, Carolina, consists of translating the SAS code into Java code. However, it seems not very easy to do and the solution is not known (and thus there is no real support for it). Another solution is to [...]

  • New Data Mining Blog: Data Mining World

    Updated: 2010-07-12 20:33:44
    I would like to welcome a new blog related to data mining: Data Mining World. Written by Burcu Kalender, a data analysis professional. She writes about various data mining topics such as software, competition, learning resources and many others. Here is an excerpt from a recent post: How do you decide which statistical software to use? Sure [...]

  • Guest post: Why Google TV Could Destroy Nielsen’s Data

    Updated: 2010-07-08 21:39:50
    It’s my pleasure to welcome Daniel Cawrey for this guest post on Data Mining Research. He has written an interesting post about Google TV and the data mining possibilities. I hope you will enjoy it. There has been a lot of hype surrounding Google TV since it was announced at a developer symposium [...]

  • The amount of digital data created in 2010 will equal…

    Updated: 2010-07-05 17:31:49
    If you want to impress your colleagues/friends with some huge numbers, simply use the funny comparisons made by Information Management in their article “Are You Prepared to Store All This Data?”. Here is an excerpt: “The amount of digital information created in 2010 (1.2 zettabytes) will equal: The digital information created by every man, woman and child [...]

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