News tagged with medical data
Drug costs, not volume, causes regional differences in Medicare drug spending
The cost of medications through Medicare's subsidized prescription drug program varies from region to region across the United States largely due to the use of more expensive brand-name drugs and not because of the amount ...
Feb 08, 2012 |
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Report: Electronic health records still need work
(AP) -- America may be a technology-driven nation, but the health care system's conversion from paper to computerized records needs lots of work to get the bugs out, according to experts who spent months studying the issue.
Jan 27, 2012 |
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Deaths from heart attacks halved in last decade
The death rate from heart attack in England has halved in the last decade, claims a research paper published today in the British Medical Journal.
Medicine & Health / Cardiology
Jan 26, 2012 |
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Missing trial data threatens the integrity of medicine
Missing clinical trial data can harm patients and lead to futile costs to health systems, warn experts in the British Medical Journal today as part of an in-depth BMJ review of the matter.
Jan 04, 2012 |
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Lingua franca critical for electronic medical records and health information exchange
A universal method of identifying medical test results and other clinical measurements is essential for health information exchange, which requires a common terminology to ensure that medical data can be recorded, transferred ...
Dec 22, 2011 |
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Google strikes deal to preserve DNA data online
Concerned that the federal government might not keep funding the world's largest free database of genetic data, Google Inc. has forged a deal with a Mountain View, Calif., startup to keep the information online - and free ...
Oct 27, 2011 |
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Ethnic differences in appointment keeping affect health of diabetes patients
Ethnic differences in appointment keeping may be an important factor in poor health outcomes among some minority patients with diabetes, according to a new study.
Oct 27, 2011 |
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Cybersecurity breakthrough keeps sensitive data confined in physical space (w/ video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- In a breakthrough that could aid spies, keepers of medical records, and parents who want to prevent their kids from "sexting," a team of Virginia Tech researchers has created software to remotely ...
Oct 17, 2011 |
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Doctor experience matters in carotid artery procedures
Preventing a stroke by placing a stent in the carotid artery, a major artery of the head and neck, is a procedure that's skyrocketing in the United States, but the outcomes can be deadly if older patients ...
Medicine & Health / Cardiology
Sep 27, 2011 |
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'Natural experiment' documents the population benefit of vaccinating preschoolers against the flu
Recent policies calling for vaccinating preschool-aged children against the flu led to a 34 percent decline in influenza cases in this age group, according to researchers at Children's Hospital Boston and McGill University. ...
Sep 19, 2011 |
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New report on creating clinical public use microdata files
The demand for transparency through publicly available healthcare data is on the rise. This is the case for administrative and clinical data for research, and for clinical trials data used to support new drug approvals. Broad ...
Sep 15, 2011 |
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Mayo Clinic study finds widespread medical resident burnout and debt
Feelings of burnout persist among internal medicine residents despite significant cutbacks in duty hours for doctors-in-training in recent years, a national study by Mayo Clinic found.
Sep 06, 2011 |
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Boys reach sexual maturity younger and younger
(Medical Xpress) -- Boys are maturing physically earlier than ever before. The age of sexual maturity has been decreasing by about 2.5 months each decade at least since the middle of the 18th century. Joshua ...
Aug 18, 2011 |
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Most Canadians can be uniquely identified from their date of birth and postal code
There are increasing pressures for health care providers to make individual-level data readily available for research and policy making. But Canadians are more likely to allow the sharing of their personal data if they believe ...
Aug 08, 2011 |
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Integrating science and medicine in the treatment of chronic disease
Chronic non-communicable diseases (NCD), such as cardiovascular disease, diabetes, arthritis, chronic respiratory disorders and cancer represent the major global health problem of the 21st century and affect all age groups. ...
Jul 06, 2011 |
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