• Medical Informatics Combines Healthcare and Technology

    Updated: 2010-08-30 19:05:02
    Source: Carol Sorgen, The Washington Post Content: “When it comes to job growth in the coming years, the U.S. Department of Labor forecasts that the two fields projected to have the most jobs are technology and healthcare. In the developing area of biomedical and health informatics, you can get the best of both worlds. According to [...]

  • The Role of Technology in Health Care

    Updated: 2010-08-30 19:00:35
    Source: TAP Blog Content: “As policymakers consider new approaches to providing quality health care at a lower cost, information technology is expected to play a larger role. Some consider the role of new technologies in raising costs, others, the role of information management technology in reducing costs. Others track how health technology policies relate to [...]

  • Data Challenges

    Updated: 2010-08-29 20:10:14
    Source: Linda Stotsky, LSC Physician Business Growth Services Content: “The challenges of data include both structured and unstructured data, the introduction of internal and external macros, and clumsy search technology. All impact cost effective EMR solutions. Tying practice process with technology applications makes the EMR exponentially more useful. In practice, few users find themselves operating [...]

  • EHR Data Sharing – No Manhattan Transfer

    Updated: 2010-08-29 07:51:22
    Source: Gregg Alexander, IHIIP Content: “A recent change in working arrangements led to the need to look into the exchange of a few hundred patients’ records, from one well-known EHR system to another very prominent company’s system. To say such an exchange is easy or, especially, to say it is cheap would be the understatement [...]

  • Data Journalist David McCandless

    Updated: 2010-08-28 04:05:14
    Nice talk by David McCandless on culture and data visualization. An additional interesting take on military spending would be the relationship between the country in question and the statistics of the other countries in the world as military intentions are,...

  • Documenting patients health care records for specialty clinics using Oncology EMR

    Updated: 2010-08-27 18:52:46
    Source: EMR Daily News Content: “Oncology clinics that are using EMR application software’s for documenting patient’s medical records can now solicit the service online. The company Medical Transcriptions Service sets up VPN connectivity with the application EMR that is in use by the oncology clinics. This service is available for all specialty specific EMR applications, [...]

  • Practical Health Information Exchange using a Personally Controlled Health Record

    Updated: 2010-08-27 15:35:06
    Source: Adida B et al, 2010 Content: We suggest that doctors can most effectively share data with one another via a patient’s personally controlled health record. The security model of patient-mediated health-information exchange is more realistic and scalable than existing provider-centric designs.

  • Wave’s wireless monitoring aims to manage epilepsy

    Updated: 2010-08-27 07:48:11
    Source: Brian Dolan, mobihealthnews Content: “In the United States today there are about 3 million people with some form of epilepsy, a medical condition that produces seizures affecting mental and physical functions. When a person has two or more unprovoked seizures they are generally considered to have epilepsy, according to the Epilepsy Foundation, which estimates [...]

  • 6 million hits in 2010

    Updated: 2010-08-27 07:39:52
    Source: Lodewijk Bos, ICMCC Content: In 2010 the ICMCC News Page and Science Pages reached 6 million hits, 2 million visits and almost 5 million pageviews by over 84,000 visitors.

  • PLoS: Health IT can improve cardiovascular risk management

    Updated: 2010-08-27 07:23:58
    Source: CMIO Content: “IT-based programs can improve cardiovascular disease (CVD) management and patient empowerment, but must be accompanied by supportive social and political environments and active patient and clinician engagement, according to an article published online Aug. 24 in PLoS Medicine. “Despite good evidence for the effectiveness of CVD management, large gaps between what is known [...]

  • Harnessing Health IT for Improved Cardiovascular Risk Management

    Updated: 2010-08-27 07:21:06
    Source: Wells S et al, PLoS Medicine, 7(8) Content: Robyn Whittaker and colleagues argue that IT-based programs can improve cardiovascular disease management and patient empowerment, but must be accompanied by supportive social and political environments and active patient and clinician engagement.

  • The Recorded Future is Here

    Updated: 2010-08-26 03:50:16
    Recorded Future is a new venture which mines the web for statements that are associated with some time expressions. It then uses this corpus to describe the future in various geographies for various topics. In addition to the application of...

  • The Spectrum of Time Series Forms

    Updated: 2010-08-22 13:22:20
    I've been playing around with time series data recently. Seeing the many forms that these take, I was planning a post describing a bestiary of time series. This, it turns out, is too much work, so here I have collected...

  • What are the Odds?

    Updated: 2010-08-20 05:22:22
    I'm walking down a street in Bangkok and I bump into a colleague from my place of work in the UK. I'm hiking in the hills near Kathmandu and meet someone from my birth town. A friend take a flight...

  • Data Mining Research Interview: Anthony Goldbloom

    Updated: 2010-08-16 15:53:54
    In the series of Data Mining Research Interview, I would like to welcome Anthony Goldbloom, CEO of Kaggle. He kindly accepted to answer the following questions for the readers of Data Mining Research. Data Mining Research: Could you introduce yourself and explain your way to Kaggle? Anthony Goldbloom: I am Kaggle’s founder and CEO. I am an [...]

  • Press Release: Online and Offline become 1 with FinWEB Customer Online Targeting

    Updated: 2010-08-09 16:43:05
    Here is a press release about our new product at FinScore. Customer Online Targeting is a software for personalizing web site interactions based on the fusion of customer and web behavior data. This maximizes the value of company web sites and turns them into a truly customer oriented channel. Lausanne, Switzerland – August 9th, 2010: FinScore has [...]

  • Are Facebook likes Flooding the Internet?

    Updated: 2010-08-09 04:21:32
    I recently enabled the Facebook 'like' feature on this blog, which is hosted by SixApart's Typepad service. Of late, I haven't been blogging at anything like the rate I'd like, but - O happy day - my traffic (according to...

  • Mobile's Not Zen

    Updated: 2010-08-08 23:06:40
    How cool is this? The picture below is from the Twitter Map overlay on Bing Maps. It shows images tweeted from the Rush concert at White Water Amphitheater last night. Some of the tweets from the concert: "Solo still going",...

  • BlackBerry - Love it, Hate it, Whatever

    Updated: 2010-08-05 13:12:35
    I was amused by this moment of journalistic dissonance assembled by Techmeme where to authors started off their articles with opposing generalities about the BlackBerry.

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