News tagged with medical informatics
Novel K-anonimity algorithm safeguards access to data
Nov 20, 2009 |
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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. ...
Can pen and paper help make electronic medical records better?
Jul 20, 2009 |
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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 ...
Giving doctors the complete picture
Mar 06, 2009 |
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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 ...
Protecting patient privacy the new fashioned way
Sep 25, 2008 |
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Protecting patient privacy has been recognized as the duty of health-care providers for about as long as doctors have seen patients. In 1996 that duty became a legal obligation when Congress passed the Health Insurance Portability ...
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Tarantula venom-based MD therapy to be advanced by UB scientists' biotech company
10 hours ago |
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University at Buffalo biophysicists have found a protein in tarantula venom that shows promise as a potential therapy for muscular dystrophy (MD). They have formed a start-up biotech company in Buffalo -- Rose Pharmaceuticals ...
Acupuncture reduces hot flashes, improves sex drive for breast cancer patients
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Not only is acupuncture as effective as drug therapy at reducing hot flashes in breast cancer patients, it has the added benefit of potentially increasing a woman's sex drive and improving her sense of well-being, according ...
Gap exists between vision for EMRs to improve care coordination and clinicians' experiences
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A gap exists between policy makers' expectations that current commercial electronic medical records (EMRs) can improve coordination of patient care and clinicians' real-world experiences with EMRs, according to a study by ...
Blood test that provides prior blood sugar average now recommended for diabetes screening, diagnosis (w/ Video)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- In an annual supplement to the journal Diabetes Care, published Dec. 29 by the American Diabetes Association, the A1C test is given a prominent role in the 2010 guidelines for diabetes screening, diagnosis ...
COMPASS points to weight loss
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Obesity researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis are recruiting families with overweight children for a study to help those kids, and their parents, lose weight. The two-year study, ...
'Notch'ing up a role in the multisystem disease tuberous sclerosis complex
Dec 28, 2009 |
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Two independent teams of researchers have identified a role for enhanced activation of the signaling protein Notch in tumors characterized by inactivation of either the TSC1 or the TSC2 protein. As indicated by Warren Pear, ...
Scientists discover a controller of brain circuitry
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Dec 28, 2009 |
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By combining a research technique that dates back 136 years with modern molecular genetics, a Johns Hopkins neuroscientist has been able to see how a mammal's brain shrewdly revisits and reuses the same molecular ...
Schizophrenia mouse model should improve understanding and treatment of the disorder
Dec 28, 2009 |
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Scientists have created what appears to be a schizophrenic mouse by reducing the inhibition of brain cells involved in complex reasoning and decisions about appropriate social behavior.
Now hear this: Swim-proof hearing aids to get test
Dec 28, 2009 |
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(AP) -- They're not your grandpa's hearing aids. Today's newest models range from the completely invisible - it sits deep in the ear canal for months at a time - to Bluetooth-enabled gadgets that open cell phones and iPods ...
Small molecules found to protect cells in multiple models of Parkinson's disease
Dec 28, 2009 |
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Several structurally similar small molecules appear capable of protecting cells from alpha-synuclein toxicity in multiple models of Parkinson's disease, according to Whitehead Institute researchers. Misfolded copies of the ...
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