4th international amam symposium: animal behavior turned into robots and more
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Building a machine that moves like a cockroach, salamander, fish or another creature is no easy task. Over 100 of the world's pioneering engineers, biologists and neuroscientists who have contributed to building biologically inspired robots will be on the campus of Case Western Reserve University, June 1-6, to discuss new developments in the field of biorobotics during the Fourth International Symposium on Adaptive Motion of Animals and Machines (AMAM). (Source: IT / Internet / E-mail News From Medical News Today)
Source: IT / Internet / E-mail News From Medical News Today - May 17, 2008 Category: Information Technology Source Type: news
Partnership to develop radiology reporting technology
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A healthcare IT company has reached a partnership agreement with a speech recognition firm (Source: Hospital IT Europe)
Source: Hospital IT Europe - May 16, 2008 Category: Information Technology Source Type: news
Dutch healthcare foundation gets new crm
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Hospitallbroeders is the first organisation to go live with CACHÉ-based Eprísa online (Source: Hospital IT Europe)
Source: Hospital IT Europe - May 16, 2008 Category: Information Technology Source Type: news
Dairyland creates emr first
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Dairyland Healthcare Solutions hits milestone with first exchange of patient information (Source: Hospital IT Europe)
Source: Hospital IT Europe - May 16, 2008 Category: Information Technology Source Type: news
Nhs it four years behind schedule
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The National Audit Office says timescales for England’s NHS IT programme were unrealistic (Source: Hospital IT Europe)
Source: Hospital IT Europe - May 16, 2008 Category: Information Technology Source Type: news
New category added to the bt e-health insider awards 2008
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An extra category has been added to the BT e-Health Insider Awards 2008 offering another opportunity to showcase excellent work by the UK's healthcare IM&T community. (Source: E-Health-Insider)
Source: E-Health-Insider - May 16, 2008 Category: Information Technology Source Type: info
Senate leaders agree on privacy protections amendment to health care information technology bill
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Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) on Wednesday announced that sponsors of a bill (HR 1693) that would promote the use of health care information technology have agreed to include an amendment Leahy proposed to help protect patient privacy, (Source: IT / Internet / E-mail News From Medical News Today)
Source: IT / Internet / E-mail News From Medical News Today - May 16, 2008 Category: Information Technology Source Type: news
New chip detects heart attacks better than an ekg
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A silicon chip under development at the University of Texas promises to help doctors more quickly diagnose heart attacks. (Source: Computerworld Health Care News)
Source: Computerworld Health Care News - May 16, 2008 Category: Information Technology Source Type: news
Doctors' notes get clearer with speech recognition software
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Speech recognition technology is being linked to an increase in adoption of electronic health records as doctors find it easier to build more complete patient records than with handwritten notes. (Source: Computerworld Health Care News)
Source: Computerworld Health Care News - May 16, 2008 Category: Information Technology Source Type: news
Ge healthcare it takes top for klas and md buyline ranking
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GE Healthcare IT, a division of General Electric Company (NYSE: GE) and a leading provider of clinical, financial and administrative information technology solutions, announced its Centricity® PACS-IW (formerly Dynamic Imaging IntegradWeb® PACS) products have been ranked number one by KLAS and MD Buyline. The announcement was made at the Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine (SIIM) conference in Seattle, May 15-18, 2008. (Source: IT / Internet / E-mail News From Medical News Today)
Source: IT / Internet / E-mail News From Medical News Today - May 16, 2008 Category: Information Technology Source Type: news
'new wave' in health care provision signalled by innovative antennae
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Compact, wireless and power efficient body sensors that allow doctors to monitor illnesses and injuries remotely are a step closer thanks to new research.The use of biosensors attached to the body for health monitoring is not new. (Source: IT / Internet / E-mail News From Medical News Today)
Source: IT / Internet / E-mail News From Medical News Today - May 16, 2008 Category: Information Technology Source Type: news
Could violent video games reduce rather than increase violence?
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Does playing violent video games make players aggressive? It is a question that has taxed researchers, sociologists, and regulators ever since the first console was plugged into a TV and the first shots fired in a shoot 'em up game. (Source: IT / Internet / E-mail News From Medical News Today)
Source: IT / Internet / E-mail News From Medical News Today - May 16, 2008 Category: Information Technology Source Type: news
Nao says care records service delayed until 2015
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The delivery of electronic patient records to hospitals by the NHS National Programme for IT is now running four years late and, according to the National Audit Office is unlikely to be completed before 2015, five years later than originally planned. (Source: E-Health-Insider)
Source: E-Health-Insider - May 15, 2008 Category: Information Technology Source Type: info
New proquest resource targets hospital information needs
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ProQuest, which provides access to and navigation of digital pages, unveiled ProQuest Hospital Collection. (Source: EContent RSS Feeds : Research Center: Sci-Tech/Medical)
Source: EContent RSS Feeds : Research Center: Sci-Tech/Medical - May 15, 2008 Category: Information Technology Source Type: info
Bmj group teams up with the college of emergency medicine
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BMJ Learning, part of the BMJ Group, announced that it has formed a partnership with the College of Emergency Medicine in the UK, to provide Continuous Professional Development (CPD) courses for Fellows and Associate Fellows of the College. The new learning resources are provided in a series of modules-those available immediately include courses on self-harm and the Medical Capacity Act, the management of acute coronary syndromes, and syncope. (Source: eHealth News EU)
Source: eHealth News EU - May 15, 2008 Category: Information Technology Tags: News - Research News Source Type: info
Orion health participates in national event for reducing acute admissions
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Orion Health, a leading provider of clinical workflow and integration technology for the healthcare sector, announced its participation in the National Event for Recurring Admission Patient Alerts (RAPA) being held at King's Mill Hospital in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, on Thursday May 15th, 2008. (Source: eHealth News EU)
Source: eHealth News EU - May 15, 2008 Category: Information Technology Tags: News - Industry News Source Type: info
Csw group ltd appointed to new ascc framework contracts
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CSW Group Ltd, a leading provider of patient-centric electronic healthcare records products, has been appointed to the new Additional Supply Capability and Capacity (ASCC) framework contracts to provide clinical information systems to deliver a range of IT products and services to the NHS. (Source: eHealth News EU)
Source: eHealth News EU - May 15, 2008 Category: Information Technology Tags: News - Industry News Source Type: info
Millennium fails again across southern england
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Many NHS staff in the south were left unable to use the Cerner Millennium care record system last Wednesday morning, after the Fujitsu-provided system failed across the region for the second time in a month. (Source: E-Health-Insider)
Source: E-Health-Insider - May 15, 2008 Category: Information Technology Source Type: info
Health grades expands health care facilities grading tool to include prescription drugs
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Health Grades on Wednesday announced it will expand its online health care facilities and services grading tool to include information and ratings of prescription medications, Dow Jones reports. The new program will feature information on 4,345 prescription medications, including which drugs are most commonly prescribed and whether use of a certain drug is increasing or decreasing. (Source: IT / Internet / E-mail News From Medical News Today)
Source: IT / Internet / E-mail News From Medical News Today - May 15, 2008 Category: Information Technology Source Type: news
Patients should get wikirecords
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The Government should create 'Wikirecords' - online, accessible medical records which patients can contribute to and comment on - according to a new report from think tank Demos. (Source: E-Health-Insider)
Source: E-Health-Insider - May 15, 2008 Category: Information Technology Source Type: info
Estimated 3.2 million burmese potentially affected by cyclone
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As many as 3.2 million Burmese are estimated to be affected by the devastation caused by Cyclone Nargis, according to geographic risk models developed by researchers from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and Lehman College, CUNY. Using Geographic Information Systems (GIS), the researchers calculated the likely distribution of the population of Burma (also known as Myanmar) and developed maps of the regions at greatest risk from the storm's effects. (Source: IT / Internet / E-mail News From Medical News Today)
Source: IT / Internet / E-mail News From Medical News Today - May 15, 2008 Category: Information Technology Source Type: news
Picis unveils ed pulsecheck 4.0
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Picis releases ED PulseCheck 4.0, its comprehensive emergency department information system (EDIS) (Source: Hospital IT Europe)
Source: Hospital IT Europe - May 15, 2008 Category: Information Technology Source Type: news
Medical device connectivity partnership
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Capsule and B. Braun Medical partnership to connect Outlook Safety Infusion System into CIS (Source: Hospital IT Europe)
Source: Hospital IT Europe - May 15, 2008 Category: Information Technology Source Type: news
Conference to unveil integrated pacs/ris
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Experts say the RIS requires no extra interfacing and does not interrupt the PACS storage capabilities (Source: Hospital IT Europe)
Source: Hospital IT Europe - May 15, 2008 Category: Information Technology Source Type: news
Medhost advances his integration
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EDIS provider MEDHOST introduces unique, discrete patient data-sharing capability (Source: Hospital IT Europe)
Source: Hospital IT Europe - May 15, 2008 Category: Information Technology Source Type: news
Cerner millennium implemented in abu dhabi
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Cerner has successfully implemented multiple Cerner Millennium HIT solutions in UAE (Source: Hospital IT Europe)
Source: Hospital IT Europe - May 15, 2008 Category: Information Technology Source Type: news
Imatis and jaotech collaborate on patient multimedia terminals
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JAOtech and Imatis have signed a global technology partnership (Source: Hospital IT Europe)
Source: Hospital IT Europe - May 15, 2008 Category: Information Technology Source Type: news
Pacs voice recognition improves er care
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Hospital improves emergency care using voice recognition and other features of DR Systems Unity PACS (Source: Hospital IT Europe)
Source: Hospital IT Europe - May 15, 2008 Category: Information Technology Source Type: news
Barcodes help reduce pharmaceutical waste pollution
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EcoRex Pharmaceutical Waste Management System is first fully-automated, integrated system (Source: Hospital IT Europe)
Source: Hospital IT Europe - May 15, 2008 Category: Information Technology Source Type: news
Antennas enable biosensor monitoring
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New biosensor antennas are designed to combine maximum signal with minimum size (Source: Hospital IT Europe)
Source: Hospital IT Europe - May 15, 2008 Category: Information Technology Source Type: news
Nhs appoint siemens to cis contract
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Siemens say the offer will aid the faster and easier procurement of IT systems and services (Source: Hospital IT Europe)
Source: Hospital IT Europe - May 15, 2008 Category: Information Technology Source Type: news
Editorial: pervasive healthcare. selected papers from the pervasive healthcare 2008 conference, tampere, finland.
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CONCLUSIONS: Pervasive healthcare is an emerging field with considerable technological breadth and expected strong impact for the quality and efficiency of healthcare in an aging society. However, this field is still a nascent one, with a good deal of exploratory research. There is also hypothesis-based and empirical research, which tests the assumptions or feasibility of a solution using clinical evidence, but most such trials at this time are preliminary and small. The emergence of a truly evidence-based outcomes assessment will take some time, but is in the making.
PMID: 18473080 [PubMed - in process] (Source: Metho...
Source: Methods of Information in Medicine - May 15, 2008 Category: Information Technology Authors: Saranummi N, Wactlar H Tags: Methods Inf Med Source Type: journals
Pervasive healthcare as a scientific discipline.
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CONCLUSION: The paper concludes that pervasive healthcare as a research field and agenda is novel; it is addressing new emerging research questions, represents a novel approach, designs new types of technologies, and applies a new kind of research method.
PMID: 18473081 [PubMed - in process] (Source: Methods of Information in Medicine)
Source: Methods of Information in Medicine - May 15, 2008 Category: Information Technology Authors: Bardram JE Tags: Methods Inf Med Source Type: journals
Effect of movements on the electrodermal response after a startle event.
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CONCLUSIONS: The presented work offers a good understanding of the EDA while walking at different speeds. Although the artefacts evoked by walking cannot be determined directly, information on the movement can be useful. Depending on the walking speed a measurement about the reliability of peak detection could be introduced.
PMID: 18473082 [PubMed - in process] (Source: Methods of Information in Medicine)
Source: Methods of Information in Medicine - May 15, 2008 Category: Information Technology Authors: Schumm J, Bächlin M, Setz C, Arnrich B, Roggen D, Tröster G Tags: Methods Inf Med Source Type: journals
Electrode position optimization for facial emg measurements for human-computer interface.
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CONCLUSIONS: The developed model and the tools utilized are powerful methods to optimize the electrode positions of a wearable gaze and EMG-based user interface system. The modeling results provide direct feedback for developing next generation wearable head cap with optimized electrode locations.
PMID: 18473083 [PubMed - in process] (Source: Methods of Information in Medicine)
Source: Methods of Information in Medicine - May 15, 2008 Category: Information Technology Authors: Nöjd N, Hannula M, Narra N, Hyttinen J Tags: Methods Inf Med Source Type: journals
A support system for context awareness in a group home using sound cues.
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CONCLUSIONS: The results show that the method is useful for monitoring persons. As future study, we will conduct a field test on an implemented system and improve it for practical use in a group home.
PMID: 18473084 [PubMed - in process] (Source: Methods of Information in Medicine)
Source: Methods of Information in Medicine - May 15, 2008 Category: Information Technology Authors: Kanai H, Nakada T, Hanba Y, Kunifuji S Tags: Methods Inf Med Source Type: journals
User-adaptive reminders for home-based medical tasks. a case study.
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CONCLUSIONS: The evaluation of context-sensitive systems that overlap into domestic lives is challenging. We believe that the ideal experiment is to deploy such systems in real homes and assess performance longitudinally. This case study in an instrumented live-in facility is a step toward that long-term goal.
PMID: 18473085 [PubMed - in process] (Source: Methods of Information in Medicine)
Source: Methods of Information in Medicine - May 15, 2008 Category: Information Technology Authors: Kaushik P, Intille SS, Larson K Tags: Methods Inf Med Source Type: journals
Activity and heart rate-based measures for outpatient cardiac rehabilitation.
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CONCLUSIONS: Hospital-based CR programs, despite their clinical benefits are severely under-utilized and resource-demanding. Ambulatory monitoring technologies, which provide a means for continuous physiological monitoring of patients at home compared to hospital-based tools, can enable home-based CR. The clinically relevant measures derived from these tools not only reflect patients' condition in a similar way as conventional tools but also show the continuous status of functional capacity (FC).
PMID: 18473086 [PubMed - in process] (Source: Methods of Information in Medicine)
Source: Methods of Information in Medicine - May 15, 2008 Category: Information Technology Authors: Bidargaddi NP, Sarela A Tags: Methods Inf Med Source Type: journals
Mobile health and wellness application framework.
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CONCLUSIONS: Mobile application development based on the application framework was demonstrated successfully. The developed UPHIAC platform adopts a new technical approach using a local database solution for caching of information at the mobile terminal. The platform applies a document-based approach providing a versatile and reliable way of sharing and collaboratively complementing of health information including standard information model documents (HL7/CDA), and integration with health information systems and personal storages. The implemented mobile tele-ECG case demonstrates the overall function of the platform. The p...
Source: Methods of Information in Medicine - May 15, 2008 Category: Information Technology Authors: Laakko T, Leppänen J, Lähteenmäki J, Nummiaho A Tags: Methods Inf Med Source Type: journals
A tele-home care system exploiting the dvb-t technology and mhp.
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CONCLUSIONS: The proposed system, based on a currently widespread infrastructure, is able to allow the patients monitoring from home without any installation procedure. Even untrained (or elderly) people can easily use such system due to their practice with the basic DVB-T home-entertainment equipments.
PMID: 18473088 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: Methods of Information in Medicine)
Source: Methods of Information in Medicine - May 15, 2008 Category: Information Technology Authors: Angius G, Pani D, Raffo L, Randaccio P, Seruis S Tags: Methods Inf Med Source Type: journals
An open and reconfigurable wireless sensor network for pervasive health monitoring.
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CONCLUSIONS: This work constitutes an essential step towards the construction of open, extensible, inter-operable and intelligent WSNs for pervasive health monitoring.
PMID: 18473089 [PubMed - in process] (Source: Methods of Information in Medicine)
Source: Methods of Information in Medicine - May 15, 2008 Category: Information Technology Authors: Triantafyllidis A, Koutkias V, Chouvarda I, Maglaveras N Tags: Methods Inf Med Source Type: journals
Patient privacy protection using anonymous access control techniques.
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CONCLUSION: The protocol protects the patient privacy with a secure anonymous authentication to healthcare services and medical record registries according to the European and the UK legislations, where the patient real identity is not disclosed with the distributed patient medical records.
PMID: 18473090 [PubMed - in process] (Source: Methods of Information in Medicine)
Source: Methods of Information in Medicine - May 15, 2008 Category: Information Technology Authors: Weerasinghe D, Rajarajan M, Elmufti K, Rakocevic V Tags: Methods Inf Med Source Type: journals
Automatically created concept graphs using descriptive keywords in the medical domain.
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CONCLUSIONS: The Semantic GrowBag algorithm allows creating concept graphs fully automatically. While it does not systematically exploit specifics of a domain (such as the fundamental separation between 'drugs' and 'therapy' in MeSH), the resulting GrowBag graphs are nevertheless well-suited to support navigation in digital object collections. Moreover, they can also be used to help maintaining existing categorization systems based on the actual usage of categories.
PMID: 18473091 [PubMed - in process] (Source: Methods of Information in Medicine)
Source: Methods of Information in Medicine - May 15, 2008 Category: Information Technology Authors: Diederich J, Balke WT Tags: Methods Inf Med Source Type: journals
Prioritizing the risk factors influencing the success of clinical information system projects. a delphi study in canada.
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CONCLUSIONS: In addition to providing a comprehensive list of risk factors and their relative importance, the study presents a major contribution by unifying the literature on information systems and medical informatics. Our checklist provides a basis for further research that may help practitioners identify the effective countermeasures for mitigating risks associated with the implementation of clinical information systems.
PMID: 18473092 [PubMed - in process] (Source: Methods of Information in Medicine)
Source: Methods of Information in Medicine - May 15, 2008 Category: Information Technology Authors: Paré G, Sicotte C, Jaana M, Girouard D Tags: Methods Inf Med Source Type: journals
An overview and analysis of theories employed in telemedicine studies. a field in search of an identity.
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CONCLUSION: The theories identified as 'shared' play an important role, but are inadequate in illuminating any unique features of telemedicine. The future of telemedicine as a field will need to identify its underlying theoretical components. Frameworks employed in the field of evaluation may aid in identifying the types of theories worth articulating in telemedicine.
PMID: 18473093 [PubMed - in process] (Source: Methods of Information in Medicine)
Source: Methods of Information in Medicine - May 15, 2008 Category: Information Technology Authors: Gammon D, Johannessen LK, Sørensen T, Wynn R, Whitten P Tags: Methods Inf Med Source Type: journals
Virtx - evaluation of a computer-based training system for mobile c-arm systems in trauma and orthopedic surgery.
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CONCLUSIONS: Trainees experienced virtX as substantial enhancement of C-arm training. Training with virtX can reduce the time needed to perform an imaging task.
PMID: 18473094 [PubMed - in process] (Source: Methods of Information in Medicine)
Source: Methods of Information in Medicine - May 15, 2008 Category: Information Technology Authors: Bott OJ, Teistler M, Duwenkamp C, Wagner M, Marschollek M, Plischke M, Raab BW, Stürmer KM, Pretschner DP, Dresing K Tags: Methods Inf Med Source Type: journals
Walsall to electronically tag paper records
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Traditional paper patient records at Walsall Manor Hospital are to be electronically tagged to cut the number of files lost whilst being moved between departments. (Source: E-Health-Insider)
Source: E-Health-Insider - May 15, 2008 Category: Information Technology Source Type: info
Eli lilly aims to tap 'rock star' programmers
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Eli Lilly plans to use TopCoder's stable of "rock star" programmers to help build enterprise IT applications. (Source: Computerworld Health Care News)
Source: Computerworld Health Care News - May 14, 2008 Category: Information Technology Source Type: news
Iba boss says lorenzo ‘will happen’
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The chairman of IBA Health has told E-Health Insider that he is not aware of any problems that would prevent the installation of Lorenzo at three NHS pilot sites this summer. (Source: E-Health-Insider)
Source: E-Health-Insider - May 14, 2008 Category: Information Technology Source Type: info
Nhs direct online to be moved to choices
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NHS Direct Online, the highly successful and popular web-based patient advice and information service, looks set to be transferred wholesale to rival NHS Choices. (Source: E-Health-Insider)
Source: E-Health-Insider - May 13, 2008 Category: Information Technology Source Type: info
