MedWorm provides a medical RSS filtering service. Over 6000 RSS medical sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest medical blog items that have been tagged with 'abstraction'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:58:29 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2132751&cid=t_105270_113_f&fid=38130&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.tempdev.net%2Fblog%2F%3Fp%3D546 Abstraction, the process of pre-populating EMR charts, is a huge win to ease physicians into the electronic chart. By adding historical information to the chart prior to the physicians patients, the physicians just need to review the old information and can then begin documenting a new encounter. Traditionally, abstraction is a labor-intensive and costly undertaking. To be done correctly, licensed medical staff (preferably RNs or highly skilled MAs)  manually go through the paper chart and manually enter the same information into the electronic chart. The mind-numbing nature of this work leads to a high level of errors, so abstracted charts must then be audited. I am working with a hospital group that early on made the executive decision to not do any manual abstraction. Instead, the burd... Implementing EMRs blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2132751 Sun, 25 Jan 2009 19:04:28 +0100 2132751 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1947765&cid=t_105270_107_f&fid=36698&url=http%3A%2F%2Fminingdrugs.blogspot.com%2F2008%2F11%2Fpython-training-for-cheminformatics.html "the best choice of high-level programming language for computational chemistry is Python" [A. Dalke]Many cheminformatic/modeling toolkits provide Python interfaces, as shown in the summary below. This is a good reason to consult Andrew for a training sessions, or checking Andrew's or Noel's blogs from time to time. The various open source projects, from which a few are stalled, support Python, as well as the academic/commercial OEChem toolkit. Two very important modeling programs supporting Python are Schrödinger's modeling suite and PyMol. For a training on the last two programs, you best contact the software support teams directly.Please let me know, if other molecular modeling/ cheminformatics/ statistical modeling programs should be mentioned here ![source: EuroQSAR poster, A. Dalk... Mining Drug Space blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1947765 Sun, 09 Nov 2008 15:23:00 +0100 1947765 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=620206&cid=t_105270_122_f&fid=35065&url=http%3A%2F%2Feideneurolearningblog.blogspot.com%2F2007%2F05%2Fenvironment-matters-lofty-ceilings.html Because the height of ceilings seems to be one of the most influential architectural features on people's mood and feelings of well-being, marketing researchers Meyers-Levy and Zhu sought to understand how environments of different ceiling heights might affect thinking performance. The results were interesting. Environment did affect performance scores, but high ceilings were not uniformly better - rather they just appeared to promote different ways of processing the same information. Whereas high ceilings were a catalyst for abstract and relational thinking, low ceilings were better at promoting concrete analysis.When subjects looked at a list of different sports-related items in high ceiling environments, they were more likely to draw abstract relationships and connections between items.... Eide Neurolearning Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=620206 Mon, 14 May 2007 07:02:00 +0100 620206 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=487396&cid=t_105270_122_f&fid=35065&url=http%3A%2F%2Feideneurolearningblog.blogspot.com%2F2007%2F03%2Fthinking-spot.html Here's a paper that shows us how the brain abstracts and makes new rules. The area that appears to be essential is the prefrontal cortex, or that thinking spot so important to Pooh and self-reflective thinkers. Rule-based learning has a developmental course (no big surprise), but what is a little surprising is the degree to which 12 year olds lag young adults in tests requiring them to make new rules.fMRI of Abstraction pdfEide Neurolearning Blog: The Examined Life: Cultivating Self-Reflection and the Return of Socratic ThinkingDevelopment of Rule-Based Category LearningTechnorati tags: learning, abstraction, cognitive, development, thinking, fMRI, science, brain, childrenEide Neurolearning Blog (Source: Eide Neurolearning Blog) Eide Neurolearning Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=487396 Mon, 05 Mar 2007 08:03:00 +0100 487396