This is a selection of articles from the December 2007 archive. Click here for this month's Information Technology headlines.
Perl HL7 Toolkit Updated
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Source: HL7 Tools and Resources Update - December 31, 2007 Source Type: journals
Ensuring Medication Reconciliation
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Source: The Informatics Review - December 31, 2007 Authors: dean at informatics-review.com Tags: Literature Source Type: journals
Memorial staff says electronic patient records more secure than paper
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Source: The Informatics Review - December 31, 2007 Authors: dean at informatics-review.com Tags: Report Source Type: journals
Health Information Technology Structural Measures
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Source: The Informatics Review - December 31, 2007 Authors: dean at informatics-review.com Tags: Request Source Type: journals
SCALE Announces 2008 Speaker Line Up
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Source: GNU/Linux And Open Source Medical Software News - December 31, 2007 Source Type: journals
Preventing The Forgotten Ureteral Stent: Implementation Of A Web-Based Stent Registry With Automatic Recall Application
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Source: IT / Internet / E-mail News From Medical News Today - December 30, 2007 Source Type: journals
'Gizmo' Designed To Save Lives In Emergencies
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Source: IT / Internet / E-mail News From Medical News Today - December 29, 2007 Source Type: journals
York University to study BioBank data use
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Source: E-Health-Insider - December 28, 2007 Source Type: journals
eHealth Initiative Releases Results of 2007 Survey on Health Information Exchange
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Source: eHealth News EU - December 28, 2007 Tags: News - Industry News Source Type: journals
PACS now used in every English trust, DH says
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Source: E-Health-Insider - December 28, 2007 Source Type: journals
OpenEMR Group Training Scheduled - Tulsa Oklahoma
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Source: GNU/Linux And Open Source Medical Software News - December 27, 2007 Source Type: journals
SparkIP Adds University Listings
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Source: EContent RSS Feeds : Research Center: Sci-Tech/Medical - December 27, 2007 Source Type: journals
Finding A Common Language In Health Care Information Technology
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Source: IT / Internet / E-mail News From Medical News Today - December 27, 2007 Source Type: journals
Lawmakers pressure DEA to okay e-prescribing for controlled substances
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Source: Medical Economics - Technology - December 26, 2007 Source Type: journals
Proposal: Tax health insurers to pay for EHRs and RHIOs
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Source: Medical Economics - Technology - December 26, 2007 Source Type: journals
Two studies report RHIOs are struggling
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Source: Medical Economics - Technology - December 26, 2007 Source Type: journals
E-prescribing volume expected to triple in 2008
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Source: Medical Economics - Technology - December 26, 2007 Source Type: journals
Studies Examine Rising Demands On Community Health Centers, Pay-for-Performance Initiatives, Comparative Effectiveness Research
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Source: IT / Internet / E-mail News From Medical News Today - December 24, 2007 Source Type: journals
Opposition calls for rethink on data storage
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Source: E-Health-Insider - December 24, 2007 Source Type: journals
Announcement on CfH future due in ‘weeks’
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Source: E-Health-Insider - December 23, 2007 Source Type: journals
Efficiency Of Satellite Telecommunications For Civil Protection Agencies
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Source: IT / Internet / E-mail News From Medical News Today - December 23, 2007 Source Type: journals
Forest Service Launches Web-based Forest Threats Viewing Tool
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Source: IT / Internet / E-mail News From Medical News Today - December 23, 2007 Source Type: journals
Professor Links Adverse Health Outcomes To Assisted Reproductive Technology In Massachusetts
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Source: IT / Internet / E-mail News From Medical News Today - December 23, 2007 Source Type: journals
Researchers Developing Mathematical Models Predicting Spread Of Epidemics
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Source: IT / Internet / E-mail News From Medical News Today - December 22, 2007 Source Type: journals
Philips to Acquire VISICU
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Source: eWeek Health Care - December 21, 2007 Source Type: journals
GP Systems of Choice: next steps
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Source: Health Informatics Newsfeed - December 21, 2007 Source Type: journals
Guidance on preparation of local IM&T plans for 2008/09
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Source: Health Informatics Newsfeed - December 21, 2007 Source Type: journals
Health Care Proposals Outlined In Report Might Reduce Spending, Improve Quality, Editorial States
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Source: IT / Internet / E-mail News From Medical News Today - December 21, 2007 Source Type: journals
Accelerating the Development of the eHealth Market in Europe
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Source: eHealth News EU - December 21, 2007 Tags: News - Publications Source Type: journals
Open Letter to RWJ, PeaceHealth and Shared Care Plan
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Source: GNU/Linux And Open Source Medical Software News - December 20, 2007 Source Type: journals
EC may reconsider patient information rules
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Source: E-Health-Insider - December 20, 2007 Source Type: journals
Transinsight's GoPubMed with Social Networking Features for Biomedical Experts
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Source: eHealth News EU - December 20, 2007 Tags: News - Industry News Source Type: journals
Integration Of Patient Monitoring Equipment And Information Systems Offers Significant Potential In The Medical Technologies Arena
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Source: IT / Internet / E-mail News From Medical News Today - December 20, 2007 Source Type: journals
Characteristics of effective electronic mail messages distributed to health care professionals in a hospital setting.
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Source: Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association - December 20, 2007 Authors: Kaltschmidt J, Schmitt SP, Pruszydlo MG, Haefeli WE Tags: J Am Med Inform Assoc Source Type: journals
Automatic Classification of Foot Examination Findings using Statistical Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning.
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Source: Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association - December 20, 2007 Authors: Pakhomov SV, Hanson PL, Bjornsen SS, Smith SA Tags: J Am Med Inform Assoc Source Type: journals
Exchange of Computable Patient Data Between the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and the Department of Defense (DoD): Terminology Standards Strategy.
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Source: Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association - December 20, 2007 Authors: Bouhaddou O, Warnekar P, Parrish F, Do N, Mandel J, Kilbourne J, Lincoln MJ Tags: J Am Med Inform Assoc Source Type: journals
HealthMap: Global infectious disease monitoring through automated classification and visualization of Internet media reports.
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Source: Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association - December 20, 2007 Authors: Freifeld CC, Mandl KD, Reis BY, Brownstein JS Tags: J Am Med Inform Assoc Source Type: journals
The BRIDG Project: A Technical Report.
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Source: Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association - December 20, 2007 Authors: Fridsma DB, Evans J, Hastak S, Mead CN Tags: J Am Med Inform Assoc Source Type: journals
Using machine learning algorithms to guide rehabilitation planning for home care clients
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Source: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making - Latest articles - December 20, 2007 Authors: Mu Zhu, Zhanyang Zhang, John P Hirdes and Paul Stolee Source Type: journals
Use of a Regional Health Information Exchange to Detect Crossover of Patients with MRSA Between Urban Hospitals.
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Source: Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association - December 20, 2007 Authors: Kho AN, Lemmon L, Commiskey M, Wilson SJ, McDonald CJ Tags: J Am Med Inform Assoc Source Type: journals
Identifying organizational capacities and incentives for clinical data-sharing: the case of a regional perinatal information system.
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Source: Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association - December 20, 2007 Authors: Korst LM, Singer JM, Aydin CE, Frank A Tags: J Am Med Inform Assoc Source Type: journals
A Randomized Effectiveness Trial of a Clinical Informatics Consult Service: Impact on Evidence Based Decision-Making and Knowledge Implementation.
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Source: Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association - December 20, 2007 Authors: Mulvaney SA, Bickman L, Giuse NB, Lambert EW, Sathe NA, Jerome RN Tags: J Am Med Inform Assoc Source Type: journals
User-Based Motion Sensing and Fuzzy Logic for Automated Fall Detection in Older Adults
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Source: Telemedicine and e-Health - December 19, 2007 Tags: article Original Research Source Type: journals
Pioneers in Telemedicine
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Source: Telemedicine and e-Health - December 19, 2007 Tags: article Source Type: journals
The Slow Pace of Interactive Video Telemedicine Adoption: The Perspective of Telemedicine Program Administrators on Physician Participation
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Source: Telemedicine and e-Health - December 19, 2007 Tags: article Source Type: journals
Distribution of Telemedicine in Japan
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Source: Telemedicine and e-Health - December 19, 2007 Tags: article Original Research Source Type: journals
Telemedicine News
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Source: Telemedicine and e-Health - December 19, 2007 Tags: article Source Type: journals
New Products
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Source: Telemedicine and e-Health - December 19, 2007 Tags: article Source Type: journals
Relationship of a Diabetes Telehealth Eye Care Program to Standard Eye Care and Change in Diabetes Health Outcomes
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Source: Telemedicine and e-Health - December 19, 2007 Tags: article Original Research Source Type: journals
Innovative Programs in Telemedicine
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Source: Telemedicine and e-Health - December 19, 2007 Tags: article Source Type: journals
A Special Thanks to Our Reviewers for 2007
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Source: Telemedicine and e-Health - December 19, 2007 Tags: article Source Type: journals
The Importance of Peer Review
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Source: Telemedicine and e-Health - December 19, 2007 Tags: article Editorial Source Type: journals
O'Reilly: Open Source Licenses Are Obsolete
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Source: GNU/Linux And Open Source Medical Software News - December 19, 2007 Source Type: journals
Cathedral vs. Bazaar in HIT-OSS
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Source: GNU/Linux And Open Source Medical Software News - December 19, 2007 Source Type: journals
Medsphere Consultant Speaks Out
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Source: GNU/Linux And Open Source Medical Software News - December 19, 2007 Source Type: journals
Connected Santa comes to Great Ormond St.
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Source: E-Health-Insider - December 19, 2007 Source Type: journals
eHealth ERA Project Concluded Successfully
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Source: eHealth News EU - December 19, 2007 Tags: News - Research News Source Type: journals
Washington State Governor Outlines Provisions Of $7.9M Patient Safety Proposal
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Source: IT / Internet / E-mail News From Medical News Today - December 19, 2007 Source Type: journals
CSW named SME of the year
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Source: E-Health-Insider - December 19, 2007 Source Type: journals
Senators Demonstrate Support For Electronic Prescribing - National Association Of Chain Drug Stores
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Source: IT / Internet / E-mail News From Medical News Today - December 19, 2007 Source Type: journals
HIT Definitions Project Announces First Public Forum, USA
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Source: IT / Internet / E-mail News From Medical News Today - December 19, 2007 Source Type: journals
FDA Critical Path Initiative Can Advance Women's Health
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Source: IT / Internet / E-mail News From Medical News Today - December 19, 2007 Source Type: journals
Developing a Wireless Speech- and Touch-Based Intelligent Comprehensive Triage Support System.
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Source: CIN: Computers, Informatics, Nursing - December 18, 2007 Tags: Abstract HTML PDF (483 K) Source Type: journals
Characteristics of Midlife Women Recruited Through Internet Communities/Groups.
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Source: CIN: Computers, Informatics, Nursing - December 18, 2007 Tags: Abstract HTML PDF (189 K) Source Type: journals
A Model for Incorporating Technology into Student Nurse Clinical.
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Source: CIN: Computers, Informatics, Nursing - December 18, 2007 Tags: HTML PDF (1.842 M) Source Type: journals
An Academic-Industry Partnership for Advancing Technology in Health Science Education.
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Source: CIN: Computers, Informatics, Nursing - December 18, 2007 Tags: HTML PDF (1.842 M) Source Type: journals
One Strategy to Reduce Medication Errors: The Effect of an Online Continuing Education Module on Nurses' Use of the Lexi-Comp Feature of the Pyxis MedStation 2000.
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Source: CIN: Computers, Informatics, Nursing - December 18, 2007 Tags: Abstract HTML PDF (266 K) Source Type: journals
Student Usage of Electronic Medical Record.
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Source: CIN: Computers, Informatics, Nursing - December 18, 2007 Tags: HTML PDF (1.842 M) Source Type: journals
Technology Informatics Guiding Education Reform: TIGER Phase 2: Achieving the Vision.
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Source: CIN: Computers, Informatics, Nursing - December 18, 2007 Tags: HTML PDF (113 K) Source Type: journals
Late Effects of Treatment for Long-term Cancer Survivors: Qualitative Analysis of an Online Support Group.
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Source: CIN: Computers, Informatics, Nursing - December 18, 2007 Tags: Abstract HTML PDF (548 K) Source Type: journals
A Collaborative Model to Ensure Graduating Nurses Are Ready to Use Electronic Health Records.
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Source: CIN: Computers, Informatics, Nursing - December 18, 2007 Tags: HTML PDF (1.842 M) Source Type: journals
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