POSTS TAGGED AS informatics

Computerized Screening for Occult Disease

One of the advantages electronic medical records offer is the computerized screening of a patient’s data for undiagnosed illness.  [MORE]

Skype Download for iPad

If you haven’t already downloaded the Skype app for the iPad, here is the link to get it.  The [MORE]

Digital Identities

Getting approval signatures on clinical trial documents is something like a series of speed bumps on a super highway, [MORE]

Myths about “Clouds”

Andrew Sroka
The hospital of the future primarily may be an information service provider-one without any patient beds of its [MORE]

Cleveland Clinic’s New Personalized Healthcare Center

Cleveland Clinic’s new Center for Personalized Healthcare aims to use healthcare IT more effectively in tailoring an integrated approach to [MORE]

Brookings Study on IT and Personalized Medicine

It has happened before, and often: scientific discovery running ahead of medical practice and public policy, with consumer demand [MORE]

Data Mining Depression

Vincent Willem Van Gogh Depression
What will be the world’s leading cause of disability by 2020?  The World Health [MORE]

Smarter Hospital Beds

Electrical and Computer Engineering Professor John LaCourse, at the University of New Hampshire, has created algorithms that can [MORE]

Health Through Predictive Knowledge Management

Kevin Fickenscher, MD
For a couple of decades, banks have used predictive analysis to guide their loan strategies.  This white paper [MORE]

Mayo Clinic’s Imaging Informatics Innovation Center

This story, billed as a White Paper on imaging informatics, actually is a docutisement (free download, 4 pages) for IBM [MORE]

The Data Crush

The Analystics group of the Healthcare Information & Management Systems Society (HIMSS) recently found that nearly every hospital IT executive [MORE]

Analytics for Medical Device Clinical Trials

The FDA recently issued guidelines for using Bayesian statistical methods to correlate data from current and earlier clinical trials [MORE]

SIIM Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, June 3-6, 2010

Paul Chang MD
At the Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine’s annual meeting, the program will feature a “bootcamp” for physicians, [MORE]

Surgical Innovation

The explosion of technology in information systems and telecommunications has provided new approaches for age old problems. How to [MORE]