News tagged with medical informatics
Making personal health records more usable
Although personal health records are now securely accessible online to a large and growing number of individuals, little research has been conducted on opinions about their ease of use.
Jan 05, 2012 |
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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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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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E-health records should play bigger role in patient safety initiatives, researchers advocate
Patient safety researchers are calling for the expanded use of electronic health records (EHRs) to address the disquieting number of medical errors in the healthcare system that can lead to readmissions and even death. Their ...
Jul 19, 2011 |
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Outpatient electronic prescribing systems don't cut out common mistakes
Outpatient electronic prescribing systems don't cut out the common mistakes made in manual systems, suggests research published online in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association (JAMIA).
Jun 30, 2011 |
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Improving health care in the Internet age
Faster and more widely available internet access has improved our lives in many ways but healthcare is lagging behind, according to researchers writing in the International Journal of Medical Engineering and Informatics.
Nov 02, 2010 |
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Informatics = essential MD competency
In an article published in the Sept. 15 edition of the Journal of the American Medical Association, (JAMA), author Edward H. Shortliffe, MD, PhD, points out that although information underlies all clinical work, and despite t ...
Sep 14, 2010 |
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Is your hemoglobin 'trending'?
Anemia, a common blood disorder characterized by low hemoglobin levels, has long been associated with those suffering from colorectal cancer. But researchers at Tel Aviv University have discovered that, more than a symptom ...
Aug 03, 2010 |
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Privacy risks from geographic information
In today's world more geographic information is being collected about us, such as where we live, where the clinic we visited is located, and where we work. Web sites are also collecting more geographic information about their ...
Apr 08, 2010 |
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Health care groups collaborate on new reference guides for personal health records
Several groups across the healthcare sector will rollout two new "Personal Health Record (PHR) Quick Reference Guides" in an effort to educate consumers and clinicians about how PHRs can be useful tools for making more informed ...
Apr 05, 2010 |
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Mathematical innovation turns blood draw into information gold mine
Scientists at the Stanford University School of Medicine have devised a software algorithm that could enable a common laboratory device to virtually separate a whole-blood sample into its different cell types and detect medically ...
Mar 07, 2010 |
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Novel K-anonimity algorithm safeguards access to data
As electronic health records become more widely deployed, increasing amounts of health information are being collected. This data has many beneficial applications, such as research, public health, and health system planning. ...
Nov 20, 2009 |
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Can pen and paper help make electronic medical records better?
The results of a new study of the pen and paper workarounds employed by healthcare providers who use an electronic medical record system may help make electronic medical records even more useful to health-care providers and ...
Jul 20, 2009 |
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Giving doctors the complete picture
During the course of a hospitalization, patients are seen by a variety of specialists in addition to the physician who has primary responsibility for their care. However, faulty communication, inappropriate timing, inadequate ...
Mar 06, 2009 |
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