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Medicine 2.0: Social Networking, Collaboration, Participation, Apomediation, and OpennessEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
“Medicine 2.0” applications, services, and tools are defined as Web-based services for health care consumers, caregivers, patients, health professionals, and biomedical researchers, that use Web 2.0 technologies and/or semantic web and virtual reality approaches to enable and facilitate specifically 1) social networking, 2) participation, 3) apomediation, 4) openness, and 5) collaboration, within and between these user groups.
Source: The Informatics Review - September 1, 2008 Category: Information Technology Authors: dean at informatics-review.com Tags: Literature Source Type: info

Automated de-identification of free-text medical recordsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
We have developed a pattern-matching de-identification system based on dictionary look-ups, regular expressions, and heuristics. Evaluation based on two different sets of nursing notes collected from a U.S. hospital suggests that, in terms of recall, the software out-performs a single human de-identifier (0.81) and performs at least as well as a consensus of two human de-identifiers (0.94). The system is currently tuned to de-identify PHI in nursing notes and discharge summaries but is sufficiently generalized and can be customized to handle text files of any format. Although the accuracy of the algorithm i...
Source: The Informatics Review - September 1, 2008 Category: Information Technology Authors: dean at informatics-review.com Tags: Literature Source Type: info

Presence in Virtual Worlds Could Help Health Plans Achieve Real-World Behavior ChangeEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Second Life is a virtual world of avatars, sims and Linden dollars, and CIGNA, Corp., Partners HealthCare System, Inc. and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) are among the first health organizations to establish beachheads on its shores. But it's not, they say, because Second Life and other social networking media (e.g., Web sites) are new and flashy. Rather, their ventures are a response to changes in the way consumers are communicating and accessing health information.
Source: The Informatics Review - September 1, 2008 Category: Information Technology Authors: dean at informatics-review.com Tags: Resources Source Type: info

DNA databases blocked from the publicEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The National Institutes of Health quietly blocked public access to databases of patient DNA profiles after learning of a study that found the genetic information may not be as anonymous as previously believed. The study that sparked the move, published in today's edition of the journal Public Library of Science, revealed the ability of a new type of forensic DNA analysis to identify a person's DNA even if it were found in minute quantities and mixed with that of hundreds of other people.
Source: The Informatics Review - September 1, 2008 Category: Information Technology Authors: dean at informatics-review.com Tags: Resources Source Type: info

Nationwide EHR implementation price tag estimated at $150 billionEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Full implementation of networked e-health records in U.S. doctors’ offices and hospitals could cost around $150 billion over eight years. Miller’s projections call for hospitals to spend $35 billion to acquire and expand EHR systems and $55 billion in new operating costs over eight years. He said this level of spending would bring hospitals’ IT spending closer to that of other industries.
Source: The Informatics Review - September 1, 2008 Category: Information Technology Authors: dean at informatics-review.com Tags: News Source Type: info

Wrong National Strategy for EMRs?Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The health informatics community, the various national organizations and professional committees and ONCHIT need to consider making major changes in order to have any hope for meaningful progress towards working, efficient, and successful EMR implementations. First, we need an honest and open discussion on the current situation. Second, we need to look at many of the health informatics myths such as “the goal of 2014 is easily achievable”, or “interoperability can easily be achieved if we follow the HITSP standards”. Only then can we create cost-effective, interoperable, non-proprietary, user friend...
Source: The Informatics Review - July 15, 2008 Category: Information Technology Authors: dean at informatics-review.com Tags: Report Source Type: info

"Plug and Play" Hospitals Medical devices that exchange data could make hospitals saferEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Device interoperability could also reduce the large number of false alarms that nurses must contend with. "If you go into an ICU, it's a madhouse," says Szolovits. "There are alarms going off constantly, because each alarm is separate from the others, so none of them have an integrated view of what's going on with the patient." If the data from medical monitors were integrated, he says, alarms would be more likely to indicate something truly important.
Source: The Informatics Review - July 15, 2008 Category: Information Technology Authors: dean at informatics-review.com Tags: Announcement Source Type: info

Surveillance Sans Frontières: Internet-Based Emerging Infectious Disease Intelligence and the HealthMap ProjectEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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Source: The Informatics Review - July 15, 2008 Category: Information Technology Authors: dean at informatics-review.com Tags: Literature Source Type: info

A treasure-trove of data in the UK National Health Service is set to energize biomedical researchEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Perhaps the most significant move for biomedical science at the NHS lies in opening up the ocean of patients' data that the organization has collected over the decades. Public consultations are now beginning that, favourable soundings suggest, will lead to ways by which researchers can readily find appropriate patients for research and clinical trials, and can gain access to data whose sources are anonymized but traceable subject to the patient's permission. In particular, the national extent and depth of those data will provide researchers in academia and industry with a globally unique resource for highly...
Source: The Informatics Review - July 15, 2008 Category: Information Technology Authors: dean at informatics-review.com Tags: Editorial Source Type: info

The Impact of Prevention on Reducing the Burden of Cardiovascular DiseaseEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Approximately 78% of adults aged 20-80 years alive today in the United States are candidates for at least one prevention activity. If everyone received the activities for which they are eligible, myocardial infarctions and strokes would be reduced by 63% and 31%, respectively. If more feasible levels of performance are assumed, myocardial infarctions and strokes would be reduced 36% and 20%, respectively. Implementation of all prevention activities would add {approx}221 million life-years and 244 million quality-adjusted life-years to the US adult population over the coming 30 years, or an average of 1.3 ye...
Source: The Informatics Review - July 15, 2008 Category: Information Technology Authors: dean at informatics-review.com Tags: Literature Source Type: info

DEA proposes rules to allow e-prescribing of controlled substancesEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The proposed rules, as explained in a 62-page Federal Register notice today, require doctors to use two forms of identification for each transmission of e-prescriptions for controlled substances in addition to an annual audit of each system by a certified public accountancy.
Source: The Informatics Review - July 15, 2008 Category: Information Technology Authors: dean at informatics-review.com Tags: Proposal Source Type: info

One answer to EMR data entry: Hire a scribe to do itEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Here's how it works: The scribe takes notes during the clinical exam and enters them into the appropriate place in the EMR, relieving the doctor of the note-taking and data-entry responsibilities. The common criticism of medical scribes is that their use adds one more layer of bureaucracy, and keeps physicians from unlocking the potential of their EMRs because they're never interacting with them. But medical scribe companies counter that they help physicians interact more with patients, because scribes handle the technology.
Source: The Informatics Review - July 15, 2008 Category: Information Technology Authors: dean at informatics-review.com Tags: News Source Type: info

Electromagnetic interference from radio frequency identification inducing potentially hazardous incidents in critical care medical equipmentEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Health care applications of autoidentification technologies, such as radio frequency identification (RFID), have been proposed to improve patient safety and also the tracking and tracing of medical equipment. In 123 EMI tests (3 per medical device), RFID induced 34 EMI incidents: 22 were classified as hazardous, 2 as significant, and 10 as light. The passive 868-MHz RFID signal induced a higher number of incidents (26 incidents in 41 EMI tests; 63%) compared with the active 125-kHz RFID signal (8 incidents in 41 EMI tests; 20%). In a controlled nonclinical setting, RFID induced potentially hazardous inciden...
Source: The Informatics Review - July 1, 2008 Category: Information Technology Authors: dean at informatics-review.com Tags: Literature Source Type: info

Information on Provider Taxonomy Codes for PayersEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Many hospitals, physicians and clinics are having difficulty getting claims paid because of problems related to Provider Taxonomy codes in payers’ crosswalks. The folks from HIT Transitions have posted a lot of information on their health IT blog, and they’ve just set up a link to all those posts.
Source: The Informatics Review - July 1, 2008 Category: Information Technology Authors: dean at informatics-review.com Tags: Information Source Type: info

Overview of Trends in Health Information Exchange and Implications for Public PolicyEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This month's webinar will provide an overview of what's happening related to health information exchange. The most recent findings from surveys and research on health information exchange will be shared, including: health information exchange research funded by Harvard's Program for Health Systems Improvement and published in the December 2007 edition of Health Affairs, findings from the State-level HIE Consensus Project and Final Report which focused on assessing the current landscape of state-level health information exchange initiatives, and the preliminary results from the eHI 2008 Survey of Health Info...
Source: The Informatics Review - July 1, 2008 Category: Information Technology Authors: dean at informatics-review.com Tags: Seminar Source Type: info

CCHIT Certified Inpatient EHR 2007Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The following products have achieved CCHIT Certified status by testing against the 2007 Inpatient EHR criteria.
Source: The Informatics Review - July 1, 2008 Category: Information Technology Authors: dean at informatics-review.com Tags: Report Source Type: info

Top five biggest healthcare IT blundersEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Despite their best efforts, many hospitals adopting healthcare IT have found some unexpected curves in the road over the last few years. Here are some of the biggest blunders...
Source: The Informatics Review - July 1, 2008 Category: Information Technology Authors: dean at informatics-review.com Tags: Report Source Type: info

Implementation of a novel on-ward computer-assisted surveillance system for device-associated infections in an intensive care unitEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
A computer-based surveillance system for detecting nosocomial infections (NI) with direct data input from attending on-ward physicians was implemented. Detected infection rates ranged within the German national reference data. Personnel costs for on-ward physicians and infection control personnel were 1.01 Euro per device day in the routine phase. Time expenditure of less than 3 min per device day, rendered in about equal parts by physicians and infection control personnel, was lower than in studies relying on on-ward assessment by infection control personnel.
Source: The Informatics Review - July 1, 2008 Category: Information Technology Authors: dean at informatics-review.com Tags: Literature Source Type: info

Novel, Web-based, information-exploration approach for improving operating room logistics and system processesEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
A Web-based, graphical dashboard is described in this study, which can be used to interpret clinical operational data, allow managers to see trends in data, and help identify inefficiencies that were not apparent with more traditional, paper-based approaches. The dashboard provides a visual decision support tool that assists managers in pinpointing areas for continuous quality improvement. Strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats associated with implementing such a program in the perioperative environment are summarized.
Source: The Informatics Review - July 1, 2008 Category: Information Technology Authors: dean at informatics-review.com Tags: Literature Source Type: info

Evidence on the Costs and Benefits of Health Information TechnologyEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Many people believe that health information technology (health IT) has the potential to transform the practice of health care by reducing costs and improving quality. In this paper, prepared at the request of the Chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) examines the evidence on the costs and benefits of health information technology, possible barriers to a broader distribution and use of it in hospitals and clinicians’ offices, and possible options for the federal government to promote use of health IT.
Source: The Informatics Review - June 15, 2008 Category: Information Technology Authors: dean at informatics-review.com Tags: Report Source Type: info

Behind the Curtain at Epic SystemsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Of course, there are ways in which Epic does resemble its competitors. It sells corporately designed clinical systems software, which it implements in patient care organizations; it has a team of internal software developers and a team of implementers; and it competes with other core-clinical companies for the same essential base of customers, in both the inpatient and outpatient spheres.
Source: The Informatics Review - June 15, 2008 Category: Information Technology Authors: dean at informatics-review.com Tags: Article Source Type: info

E-Prescribing: Becoming Mainstream PracticeEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
report is intended to set the stage for rapid growth in the adoption and use of e-prescribing technology that can significantly improve medication safety while better managing medication costs and improving health outcomes related to medications. It provides an overview of the progress that has occurred, and challenges that still exist.
Source: The Informatics Review - June 15, 2008 Category: Information Technology Authors: dean at informatics-review.com Tags: Report Source Type: info

The more ‘wired’ the hospital, the happier the patientsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
An analysis of patient-satisfaction surveys from more than 1,000 hospitals found that the more “wired” a hospital is, the happier its patients are. Patients from the most-wired hospitals reported higher satisfaction related to the admission process, their experiences with physicians, and personal issues such as sensitivity and pain.
Source: The Informatics Review - June 15, 2008 Category: Information Technology Authors: dean at informatics-review.com Tags: News Source Type: info

Virtual Discussions: An Interface to KnowledgeEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The Virtual Conversations® programs ( click to read article describing project
Source: The Informatics Review - June 15, 2008 Category: Information Technology Authors: dean at informatics-review.com Tags: Application Source Type: info

Report from workshop on Guidelines for good evaluation practice and reporting" at MIE 2008 in Göteborg, 26 - 28 May 2008Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The WG meeting was very successful with more than 60 attendees and active participation of some of them. Attendees were enthusiastic about STARE-HI and GEP-HI and some of them already use STARE-HI e.g. for supervising Master theses.
Source: The Informatics Review - June 15, 2008 Category: Information Technology Authors: dean at informatics-review.com Tags: Conference Source Type: info

IT Visionary: William W. Stead, M.D.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
“We wanted to focus on decision support,” he says, and that meant bringing together all the groups involved in management of information, from the library to hospital systems. The result was creation of the Informatics Center. It also meant building an information architecture to link the enterprise and a strong academic unit to support it.
Source: The Informatics Review - June 15, 2008 Category: Information Technology Authors: dean at informatics-review.com Tags: Biography Source Type: info

THE ONC-COORDINATED FEDERAL HEALTH INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY STRATEGIC PLAN: 2008-2012Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The Plan has two goals, Patient-focused Health Care and Population Health, which are defined as follows: Patient-focused Health Care: Enable the transformation to higher quality, more cost-efficient, patient-focused health care through electronic health information access and use by care providers, and by patients and their designees.
Source: The Informatics Review - June 15, 2008 Category: Information Technology Authors: dean at informatics-review.com Tags: Report Source Type: info

Hospitals Using Telehealth to Provide Efficient ICU CareEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The critical patients at both the Naval Hospital in Guam and the Army Hospital Yongsan in Korea can be stabilized under the direction of intensivists at Tripler. Dr. Benjamin Berg , an intensivist at the University of Hawaii's Telehealth Research Institute said, "patients can be treated and many times the need for air evacuation can be eliminated or delayed at a cost of more than $100,000. If they need to be, stabilized patients can be brought to Tripler on a regularly scheduled medical flight mission when they are in better condition to fly.
Source: The Informatics Review - May 27, 2008 Category: Information Technology Authors: dean at informatics-review.com Tags: Report Source Type: info

Just Looking: Consumer Use of the Internet to Manage CareEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
A recent Pew Internet and American Life survey showed that 80% of consumers search the Internet for health-related information. Yet their relationship to health information on the Web remains a passive one for most. Relatively few patients tap the Internet to manage their care, including scheduling appointments with their doctors, filling prescriptions, or using ratings information to make choices about their doctors or hospitals.
Source: The Informatics Review - May 27, 2008 Category: Information Technology Authors: dean at informatics-review.com Tags: Report Source Type: info

A New Concept for Medical Imaging Centered on Cellular Phone TechnologyEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The goal of this study is to introduce and demonstrate the feasibility of a new concept in medical imaging that is centered on cellular phone technology and which may provide a solution to medical imaging in underserved areas. The new system replaces the conventional stand-alone medical imaging device with a new medical imaging system made of two independent components connected through cellular phone technology.
Source: The Informatics Review - May 27, 2008 Category: Information Technology Authors: dean at informatics-review.com Tags: Literature Source Type: info

Simple accessories could turn mobile phones into useful medical devicesEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
A research team led by Dan Fletcher from the University of California, Berkeley, which has developed a cheap attachment to turn the digital camera on many of today's mobile phones into a microscope. Called a CellScope, it can show individual white and red blood cells, which means that with the correct stain it can be used to identify the parasite that causes malaria. Moreover, by transmitting an image directly over the mobile network, the CellScope could greatly help with the remote diagnosis and monitoring of many illnesses.
Source: The Informatics Review - May 27, 2008 Category: Information Technology Authors: dean at informatics-review.com Tags: Report Source Type: info

Medical Errors Cost U.S. $8.8 Billion, result in 238,337 potentially preventable deathsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
HealthGrades' analysis of 41 million Medicare patient records ( Full Report
Source: The Informatics Review - May 27, 2008 Category: Information Technology Authors: dean at informatics-review.com Tags: Report Source Type: info

The supporting player: second generation CDS goes beyond the basics to become intuitiveEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Ask most IT professionals for a definition of CDS and they're likely to talk about alerts or warnings related to drug allergies or drug-drug interactions. But new and emerging second-generation CDS goes far beyond alerts. It infers possible questions and needs before they are explicitly asked, and it combines reference information seamlessly with tools for taking action. It embraces order sets, guideline helpers, problem-based documentation templates, just-in-time flowsheets and data displays, and intelligent integrated reference information.
Source: The Informatics Review - May 27, 2008 Category: Information Technology Authors: dean at informatics-review.com Tags: Literature Source Type: info

National Alliance for Health Information Technology (NAHIT) Releases HIT DefinitionsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Finally, NAHIT has released its final report
Source: The Informatics Review - May 27, 2008 Category: Information Technology Authors: dean at informatics-review.com Tags: Report Source Type: info

Interface Terminologies: Bridging the Gap between Theory and Reality for AfricaEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Adoption of EHRs by physicians has been slow and the use of decision support has been minimal. Part of the difficulty lies in the challenges that users face in capturing structured clinical information. Reference and administrative terminologies have been in use for many years and provide a critical infrastructure to support reimbursement, decision-support and data analysis. The problem is that physicians do not think and work using reference terminologies. Interface terminologies bridge the gap between information that is in the physician's mind and information that can be interpreted by computer applications.
Source: The Informatics Review - May 27, 2008 Category: Information Technology Authors: dean at informatics-review.com Tags: Literature Source Type: info

The Launch of Google HealthEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Google's Personal Health Record Application
Source: The Informatics Review - May 27, 2008 Category: Information Technology Authors: dean at informatics-review.com Tags: Resource Source Type: info

Practical Guide to Clinical Computing Systems: Design, Operations, and InfrastructureEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The development of clinical computing systems is a rapidly growing priority area of health information technology, spurred in large measure by robust funding at the federal and state levels. It is widely recognized as one of the key components for reducing costs and improving the quality of care. At the same time as more and more hospitals and clinics are installing clinical computing systems, major issues related to design, operations, and infrastructure remain to be resolved. This book tackles these critical topics, including system selection, configuration, installation, user support, interface engines, ...
Source: The Informatics Review - May 27, 2008 Category: Information Technology Authors: dean at informatics-review.com Tags: Book Source Type: info

Detection and prevention of prescriptions with excessive doses in electronic prescribing systemsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Our study revealed a remarkable number of prescriptions with doses exceeding approved limits (2.5 - 6.1%). Their prevention appears feasible but the choice of an appropriate database for MRTDs is essential, and differences between available information sources are large.
Source: The Informatics Review - April 30, 2008 Category: Information Technology Authors: dean at informatics-review.com Tags: Literature Source Type: info

A Randomized Trial of the Effectiveness of On-Demand vs. Computer-Triggered Drug Decision-Support in Primary CareEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Customization of computer-triggered alert systems is more useful in detecting and resolving prescribing problems than on-demand review but neither approach was effective in reducing prescribing problems. New strategies are needed to maximize the use of drug decision-support systems to reduce drug-related morbidity.
Source: The Informatics Review - April 30, 2008 Category: Information Technology Authors: dean at informatics-review.com Tags: Literature Source Type: info

Diagnosing Alzheimer's disease--non-clinicians and computerised algorithms together are as accurate as the best clinical practiceEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
A combination of non-clinical researchers, a structured interview and a computerised algorithm is as effective at identifying AD as highly trained and skilled clinicians.
Source: The Informatics Review - April 30, 2008 Category: Information Technology Authors: dean at informatics-review.com Tags: Literature Source Type: info

Best Practices for Laptop Management and Data Breach PreventionEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
In 2006, Allina lost a laptop containing sensitive data, and could not prove that the data on that laptop was encrypted. At that time, Allina could only locate approximately 65% of its laptop population. To address its laptop management challenges, Allina implemented Computrace®, an IT asset management, remote data delete and theft recovery solution. By 2007, the solution was deployed on all of the hospital network’s laptops and tablets. Since implementing Computrace, Allina Hospitals & Clinics has recovered 75% of stolen laptops, including a laptop that was tracked to Vietnam and back.
Source: The Informatics Review - April 30, 2008 Category: Information Technology Authors: dean at informatics-review.com Tags: Report Source Type: info

Denis Protti, founder of the University of Victoria’s School of Health Information is honoredEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
To recognize Protti’s commitment to improving health information systems and the quality and cost-effectiveness of patient care the health care systems management company Courtyard Group
Source: The Informatics Review - April 30, 2008 Category: Information Technology Authors: dean at informatics-review.com Tags: Resource Source Type: info

AHRQ Health Care Innovations ExchangeEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The Health Care Innovations Exchange is an AHRQ program designed to support health care professionals in sharing and adopting innovations that improve the delivery of care to patients. Explore this site to find innovative strategies and quality-related tools, learn how to improve your organization's ability to innovate and adopt new ideas, and interact with innovators and adopters.
Source: The Informatics Review - April 30, 2008 Category: Information Technology Authors: dean at informatics-review.com Tags: Resource Source Type: info

Web guru targets malaria with social network siteEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Hadfield came up with the idea for www.MalariaEngage.org
Source: The Informatics Review - April 30, 2008 Category: Information Technology Authors: dean at informatics-review.com Tags: News Source Type: info

How Do You Amend Your Terms of Use? Hint: Don't Hide the BallEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The case, *Douglas v. U.S. District Court*, 495 F.3d 1062 (9th Cir. 2007), involved a change to terms of use for an AOL subsidiary providing long-distance telephone services. The subsidiary was acquired by Talk America, which changed the existing terms of use to add a number of new clauses, including a new arbitration provision and a waiver of the right to class actions. The plaintiff, a California resident, filed a class action on a number of claims arising from the change in terms. The defendant moved to compel arbitration based on the new arbitration provision. The District Court granted arbitration and ...
Source: The Informatics Review - April 30, 2008 Category: Information Technology Authors: dean at informatics-review.com Tags: Report Source Type: info

Leapfrog CPOE Evaluation ToolEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The CPOE Evaluation Tool is a remote test for use by hospitals to assess their compliance with The Leapfrog Group's CPOE patient safety standard. Leapfrog's CPOE standard requires that hospitals: assure that prescribers enter hospital medication orders via a computer system that includes decision support software to reduce prescribing errors; and,
Source: The Informatics Review - April 30, 2008 Category: Information Technology Authors: dean at informatics-review.com Tags: Resource Source Type: info

SlidesOnline.org A resource for Powerpoint Slide PresentationsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Slidesonline is a web resource designed to facilitate educational process of medical professionals. As you know slide presentations has become one of the key ways of facilitating education and a way of communicating the new scientific developments. Academic faculties and clinicians in practice from worldwide have contributed to the web portal. We would like to invite you to share and enhance the sharing and collaborative development of this educational resource.
Source: The Informatics Review - April 30, 2008 Category: Information Technology Authors: dean at informatics-review.com Tags: Resource Source Type: info

Characterizing the Health Information Technology Workforce: Analysis from the HIMSS Analytics™ DatabaseEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The data in this report focus on IT professionals in health care settings. We extracted data from the HIMSS Analytics™ Database and extrapolated our findings to the United States (US) as a whole. We found the following results: There are approximately 108,390 IT professionals in health care the US.
Source: The Informatics Review - April 30, 2008 Category: Information Technology Authors: dean at informatics-review.com Tags: Resource Source Type: info

Carefx announced the “go live” of its integrated, open systems platform for the Louisiana Rural Health Information Exchange (LARHIX)Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The integrated platform employs a federated model that offers clinicians secure, anywhere, anytime access to a portal-based view of patient-centric data housed in disparate applications across multiple hospitals. Fusion from Carefx provides the platform, architecture and aggregate view of real-time patient data. IBM Websphere provides the portal framework while user authentication and single sign-on, policy-based authorization, identity federation, and auditing of access is provided by CA’s Identity & Access Management suite of products. The architecture and data flow among the four technology partners en...
Source: The Informatics Review - April 14, 2008 Category: Information Technology Authors: dean at informatics-review.com Tags: Announcement Source Type: info

New group forms to focus on interoperabilityEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Open Health Tools' stated mission is to accelerate the implementation of electronic health information interoperability platforms, which improve patient quality of care, safety and access to electronic health records. The new tools will be available under an open source agreement so that anyone may use them to provision interoperable healthcare platforms to link clinics, hospitals, pharmacies and other points of care to make the healthcare system more efficient, OHT officials said.
Source: The Informatics Review - April 14, 2008 Category: Information Technology Authors: dean at informatics-review.com Tags: Announcement Source Type: info