POSTS TAGGED AS informatics

A National Health Records Database

Oracle, Cerner plan to build national medical records database
“The concept of the national health records database, which would hold anonymized [MORE]

5 New Innovations Centers

Healthcare Innovation
“We love innovation so long as it’s nothing new” may be the mantra of most healthcare systems, but here [MORE]

“Healthcare Engineering”

Healthcare engineering
In naming itself, the American Society of Healthcare Engineering put its namesake on the map in 1962.  “Disciplines associated [MORE]

Software Change Control in Laboratory Automation

Laboratory Automation System
“At our laboratory, we [informatics managers at Yale New Haven Hospital] implemented a form-based change control process that [MORE]

Quantum X-Ray Microscopy

How quantum x-ray works
Means of increasing the resolution of an x-ray image without raising the radiation level is what the [MORE]

AI Coming to Primary Care

Automated image analysis
“With more than 500 million patient visits annually, primary care is a prime area where artificial intelligence can [MORE]

Perspective on Wearables

Verily watch
“From the patient’s perspective, wearables already give their users a sense of data ownership, even at the basic level [MORE]

Healthcare as a Data Problem

Big data healthcare
“Last year, an article published in The Economist declared that the world’s most valuable resource was no longer [MORE]

What to Do about Security Flaws in Pacemakers?

Cardiac Pacemaker
How does one protect against a security flaw in an implanted device, like a pacemaker?   The next question is [MORE]

Hacking the Robots

Hardly a day passes without some news about cyber insecurity. Banks, movie studios, many kinds of manufactures, and universities are [MORE]

An Automated “Radiologist” Named Avicenna

Avicenna Software
IBM is placing a big bet that computational medicine will be the fulcrum between the digital patient and the [MORE]

Medical Innovation Drivers

An executive with Cardinal Health (the pharmaceutical and medical device distribution giant headquartered in Dublin, OH), lists twelve drivers [MORE]

D Space

Library science may not be the most obvious field of medical automation, but surely it is the most advanced [MORE]

Harnessing the Power of Digital Patients

Quintiles, a healthcare consultancy in Research Triangle Park, NC, has a downloadable white paper titled “Harnessing the Power of the [MORE]