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Government Health IT Gets Boost with Two New Websites
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HealthIT.gov redesign was rolled out this week with seperate paths for providers and patients. It makes a great case for EHRs on the provider side including examples of successful implementations in small practices. On the Patient/Family side it explains the value of health IT in lay language and has great videos by some well known ePatients – ePatient Dave and Regina Holiday.
The other announcement is the new Query Health project from ONC which “aims to define and deliver the standards and services for distributed population health queries from certified EHRs and community records, originating in the routine c...
Source: eHealth - September 8, 2011 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: John Sharp Tags: Uncategorized EMR Health Care IT Medical informatics Source Type: blogs
Greenway Medical Releases PrimeMOBILE App for the iPad and iPad2Email this article to a colleague.
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Greenway Medical Technologies, a developer of advanced healthcare IT software, has announced the release of the remote clinic and financial software app, PrimeMOBILE, for Apple’s iPad and iPad2.
PrimeMOBILE, which was released last year on the iPhone, is designed to accommodate both the clinical and administrative documentation and data needs of clinicians.
From the press release:
PrimeMOBILE provides password-protected, remote access of patient data, clinical documents, clinical scans and lab results through patient search and filter functions. The solution streamlines workflows during physician-patient encounters b...
Source: Medgadget - September 8, 2011 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Gavin Corley Tags: informatics Net News Source Type: blogs
Why Many Clinicians Dislike Their EMRsEmail this article to a colleague.
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Many clinicians dislike the EMRs that they are forced to use (see: "Usability Failures" of EMRs Frustate Physician Users; When Doctor's Say "No" to EMR Deployments; Physician Concludes that EMRs Don't Help Patients). In this way, EMRs are different than hospital diagnostic systems like LISs, RISs, and PACSs. Most pathologists, radiologists, and their support personnel would quit their jobs rather than to work without their systems. These systems are designed for, and chosen by, the professionals who view them as a critical work tools. This is not true for EMRs as explained by Katherine Rourke in...
Source: Lab Soft News - September 7, 2011 Category: Pathologists Authors: Bruce Friedman Tags: Electronic Medical Record Healthcare Business Healthcare Information Technology Healthcare Solutions Other than Lab Hospitals and Healthcare Delivery LIS Definitions and Strategy Pathology informatics Source Type: blogs
Conference overload, meet conference overlapEmail this article to a colleague.
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Normally this time of year, I’m making plans to attend the many fall conferences in health IT and related industries. This year, my decisions are harder. You see, it seems like everyone decided to schedule their events during the last week of October:
AMIA 2011, Oct. 23-26, Washington
MGMA Annual Conference, Oct. 23-26, Las Vegas
TEDMED 2011 Oct. 25-28, San Diego
CHIME11 Fall CIO Forum, Oct. 26-28, Austin, Texas
Just for kicks, I’m scheduled to participate in the Institute for Health Technology Transformation’s Health IT Summit, Nov. 2-3 in Beverly Hills, Calif.
All are worthwhile, and all will be great p...
Source: Neil Versel's Healthcare IT Blog - September 1, 2011 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Neil Versel Tags: health IT Healthcare IT media medical informatics mobile practice management AMIA CHIME Institute for Health Technology Transformation MGMA TEDMED Source Type: blogs
Medgadget Interview: Robert Oschler, Robotic Telepresence DeveloperEmail this article to a colleague.
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Robert Oschler is a robotics enthusiast with a special interest in telepresence. He has been developing his own software for years, but the latest iteration of his Robodance client brings together the Rovio robot and EPOC’s EEG-monitoring device. We often report on the developments of huge companies in the medical technology field, so we thought it would be a good idea to take a look at some of the smaller-scale, independent developers who are exploring applications of human-technology interfaces that could one day be translated into health care applications. We had a chance to ask Robert a couple questions, bu...
Source: Medgadget - August 27, 2011 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Paul Pisklak Tags: Diagnostics informatics Medgadget Exclusive Neurology Telemedicine Source Type: blogs
VitreaView Universal Medical Image Viewer Gets U.S. Green LightEmail this article to a colleague.
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Vital Images, a division of Toshiba Medical Systems, won FDA 510(k) approval of its VitreaView universal medical image viewer.
The software, which allows for browsing through any DICOM and non-DICOM compliant images, runs via a web browser, and so does not require any software installs on client computers and will operate on any decent laptop, tablet, or desktop.
VitreaView utilizes next generation technology for image distribution through a zero-footprint and zero download viewing solution. Users accessing VitreaView can use Web-enabled devices, including Windows® or Mac-based systems, for review of DICOM and non-DICOM m...
Source: Medgadget - August 17, 2011 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Gene Ostrovsky Tags: informatics Source Type: blogs
Podcast: Gartner’s Vi Shaffer on HIE, ACOs and meaningful useEmail this article to a colleague.
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Back in June, I covered the Wisconsin Technology Network’s Digital Healthcare Conference in Madison. That conference featured a panel with Vi Shaffer, research vice president and industry services director for healthcare providers at Gartner, Judy Murphy, vice president of information services at Aurora Health Care in Milwaukee, and Epic Systems CEO Judy Faulkner, based in nearby Verona, Wis.
The panel discussed the question, “Is meaningful use a floor or a ceiling?” as I reported for WTN News. The conference also featured several sessions on how business intelligence and health information exchange can s...
Source: Neil Versel's Healthcare IT Blog - August 12, 2011 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Neil VerselNeil Versel Tags: Accountable Care Organizations health information exchange health IT Healthcare IT informatics podcast AMDIS Gartner Vi Shaffer Source Type: blogs
Digitial Dog Tags for Your Personal Health RecordsEmail this article to a colleague.
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Asahi Kasei, a Japanese technology company, has just developed a small RFID tag (pictured) for storing personal health records. The device allows clinicians and emergency response personnel to instantly access a patient’s health records using a phone or laptop.The tag incorporates Sony’s FeliCa smart card technology as it is currently compatible with a large number of Japanese devices which incorporate FeliCa card readers.
In an emergency or clinical setting, paramedics or clinicians can tap the tag against compatible equipment to view the medical data of its owner in just a few seconds. Asahi Kasei says that...
Source: Medgadget - August 11, 2011 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Gavin Corley Tags: Emergency Medicine informatics Source Type: blogs
$44k to use an EHR iPad App? OK!!Email this article to a colleague.
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This has been all over the web today, just thought I’d pass it along. DrChrono is an EMR iPad app from DrChrono, Inc. that has generated a lot of buzz recently. Any practitioner who uses it in...
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Source: The 1x Objective - July 28, 2011 Category: Pathologists Authors: robstak Tags: informatics Medicine Source Type: blogs
A Different Paradigm for Analyzing the Competition between Cerner and EpicEmail this article to a colleague.
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In a recent note, I discussed the competition between the Cerner and Epic EMRs and quoted another blog, Chilmark Research, to the effect that Cerner was moving in new strategic direction, emphasizing a network of services to provide communities of care (see: Cerner Fights Back in the EMR Market: A Community Network of Services + PHR). Such an approach is sometimes referred to as the development of a care coordination platform. I concluded that Epic's approach closely coincided with the business model currently favored by hospital executives and would probably continue to succeed in the market. Vince Kuraitis responded ...
Source: Lab Soft News - July 18, 2011 Category: Pathologists Authors: Bruce Friedman Tags: Electronic Medical Record Healthcare Business Healthcare Information Technology Hospitals and Healthcare Delivery Pathology informatics Source Type: blogs
ClearPractice Launches Cloud-Based Medical EcosystemEmail this article to a colleague.
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We’ve covered a number of EMR solutions here at Medgadget, but ClearPractice is attempting to go one step beyond most other options with its new Eden software solution. Eden combines the Nimble iPad app with a practice management solution which can manage billing, scheduling, and prescribing. Eden stores all of its data in ClearPractice’s cloud servers, and includes iPhone, Mac, and PC applications, so doctors can access patient data from anywhere.
From the press release:
The Eden practice management and EMR solution includes all the clinical, financial, and administrative features and functions physicians need to oper...
Source: Medgadget - July 15, 2011 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Smit Shah Tags: informatics Net News Source Type: blogs
Panasonic’s New Toughbook H2 and Toughbook TabletEmail this article to a colleague.
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Panasonic has released a new rugged notebook in its Toughbook line, the H2. The Windows 7 machine is not only designed for mobile and demanding applications common in clinical care, but it can also withstand wear and tear that is inevitable in a busy hospital environment, such as being dropped or having liquids splashed on. The H2 has no fan vent through which things can enter, is powered by two hot swappable batteries for zero downtime, and has a screen that will look good even in direct sunlight, among other features.
Additionally, Panasonic is promising to release later this year a Toughbook tablet powered by Android th...
Source: Medgadget - July 14, 2011 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Gene Ostrovsky Tags: informatics Source Type: blogs
CMIOs wanted in the UKEmail this article to a colleague.
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I’m getting ready to head west for, among other things, the annual AMDIS Physician-Computer Connection in Ojai, Calif., a high-level gathering of chief medical information officers. After years of fighting for a seat at the table, CMIOs now are being held up as a model, at least overseas.
Specifically, my friends at E-Health Insider in the UK have embarked on a mission to have every NHS hospital hire a chief clinical information officer, the British equivalent of the CMIO. Read more about the British perspective on the American CMIO here.
Related posts:Google’s health plans, and more on CMIOs
Podcast: Dr. Bil...
Source: Neil Versel's Healthcare IT Blog - July 10, 2011 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Neil Versel Tags: health IT Healthcare IT informatics international AMDIS CMIO E-Health Insider National Health Service United Kingdom Source Type: blogs
OpenPCR Do-It-Yourself Open Source PCR Kit Now ShippingEmail this article to a colleague.
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The folks at OpenPCR project have just announced they have started shipping the first batch of OpenPCR kits for your at-home DNA replication pleasure. The OpenPCR is a computer controlled 16 well PCR machine for the lab bench or a workshop/garage, with its own built-in screen. A DIY Xerox machine for DNA built mostly with off the shelf components and free schematics, which does thermal cycling as well as boiling, cooling, and freezing (4C) samples. From the first prototype, development of the OpenPCR took only 14 months, funded through Kickstarter with 158 people bringing in a total of $12,121.
It costs $512 (compared to $...
Source: Medgadget - July 8, 2011 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Wouter Stomp Tags: Genetics informatics Source Type: blogs
Meducation, a Multi-Lingual Drug Regiment App, Wins Harvard ChallengeEmail this article to a colleague.
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Children’s Hospital Boston and Harvard Med School just announced the winner of their “SMART” Platform Apps Challenge, a contest of web applications that take advantage of data within electronic medical records.
Meducation, made by Polyglot Systems, is a simple tool for clinicians and pharmacists to print out easily understood personal medication instructions, including a choice for those instructions to be in any one of twelve languages. There are also demo videos available when referencing something a little more complicated than oral pills, such as asthma inhalers.
Some features of the app from the product page:
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Source: Medgadget - June 28, 2011 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Gene Ostrovsky Tags: in the news... informatics Medicine Net News Source Type: blogs
If you have too much data, then “good enough” is good enoughEmail this article to a colleague.
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I would suggest that all my friends in the world of bioinformatics read this fabulous article by Pat Helland. Pat’s on of the leading experts in distributed transactions and knows more about databases than most of us put together. His ACM article goes into some the tradeoffs and changes in mindset that need to me made when working with data that changes and comes from different sources, and all so o ften has ambiguity associated with it. It also tells you a little but about the differences in SQL and NoSQL systems when it comes to transaction semantics and in a way that meets complete sense.
Perhaps the mos...
Source: business|bytes|genes|molecules - June 6, 2011 Category: Bioinformaticians Authors: Deepak Singh Tags: Big Data Computing informatics Software & Internet Source Type: blogs
BodyMaps, A 3-D Anatomical AtlasEmail this article to a colleague.
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We last reported on BodyMaps when it was still in Beta, and it has now been officially released. In case you missed that post, BodyMaps is a flash-based interactive anatomic atlas. It is searchable via text or by just clicking on various parts of the body, a sort of Google Maps of human anatomy (incidentally, Google is working on Google Body, a similar project).
Designed primarily for consumer education, it is a collaborative effort of GE HealthyImagination and HealthLine networks, a consumer health-information company.
In addition to providing patients with the ability to learn more about their anatomy, the site is ri...
Source: Medgadget - June 2, 2011 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Paul Pisklak Tags: informatics Net News Source Type: blogs
IBM Watson Shows Off Its Medical KnowledgeEmail this article to a colleague.
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IBM’s Watson, the supercomputer known for handily beating human contestants on Jeopardy! a few months ago, started to show off its more practical skills medical knowledge. It recently gave a demonstration to the Associated Press.
According to the AP,
Watson was gradually given information about a fictional patient with an eye problem. As more clues were unveiled — blurred vision, family history of arthritis, Connecticut residence — Watson’s suggested diagnoses evolved from uveitis to Behcet’s disease to Lyme disease. It gave the final diagnosis a 73 percent confidence rating.
The medical version of Wa...
Source: Medgadget - May 24, 2011 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Scott Jung Tags: in the news... informatics Source Type: blogs
PenRad Compass Breast MRI Computer Aided Visualization and Analysis SoftwareEmail this article to a colleague.
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PenRad has unveiled its Compass breast MRI analysis software. The package resides on a conventional PC and automatically processes images coming from the MRI for immediate review by the physician.
Features from the product page:
Image registration
Subtractions
Multiplanar reformatting
MIPs
Angiogenesis Maps and curves
3D Navigation from MIPs
Customizable hanging layouts
Dynamic thresholding and peak series adjustment
One click image save as .jpg
One click movie save as .wmv
Volume and morphologic analysis
Integration with PenRad MIS and PenView
Software only – installed on any mini...
Source: Medgadget - May 23, 2011 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Gene Ostrovsky Tags: informatics Radiology Source Type: blogs
Drowning in too much health information ?Email this article to a colleague.
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There's no question that it's important to be well informed if you are ill. Knowledge is power ( which is why you go to your doctor - he knows more about medicine than you do !)While not having enough information can result in poor care, today unearthing too much information has become a much bigger problem, thanks to google.Any one can search for any health topic on google and instantly come up with thousands of results. It's become very easy to search , but to find the relevant information is much harder. Making sense of these results is hard to do - and causes a lot of heartburn !Users get lost and confused and this oft...
Source: The Patient's Doctor - May 18, 2011 Category: Obstetricians and Gynecologists Tags: Health informatics Search Engines Information google Website Source Type: blogs
Barco’s New Breast Tomosynthesis MonitorEmail this article to a colleague.
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Barco has just received the first ever FDA approval for a computer monitor to be used for viewing breast tomosynthesis imagery. Tomosynthesis involves sequential movie-like playback of images of the breast taken from different angles, so the monitor has to properly render each frame quickly and with precision.
From the product page:
RapidFrame ™: RapidFrame technology counteracts motion blur when scrolling through a stack of images due to a high pixel refresh rate.
Per Pixel Uniformity™: PPU measures and adjusts the luminance of each pixel, making every pixel permanently DICOM compliant.
SmoothGray™: SmoothGray g...
Source: Medgadget - May 18, 2011 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Gene Ostrovsky Tags: informatics Ob/Gyn Radiology Surgery Source Type: blogs
A Possible Scenario of the Two-Screen Revolution for PhysiciansEmail this article to a colleague.
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In a recent note, I discussed the two-screen revolution that seems to be gaining traction (see: iPad Helping to Launch a "Two-Screen Revolution"). The basic idea is that many of us we will soon be operating with two screens, the large one being a TV or PC monitor and the small one being a tablet computer such as an iPad for simultaneously browsing the web. The large screen provides generalized, standard content and the smaller one provides customized, complementary information. I have been thinking about how this computing model relates to physicians and I think I can now describe how it may work in a hospital or...
Source: Lab Soft News - May 13, 2011 Category: Pathologists Authors: Bruce Friedman Tags: Electronic Medical Record Healthcare Business Healthcare Information Technology Hospitals and Healthcare Delivery Laboratory Industry Trends Medical Education Pathology informatics Source Type: blogs
Healthwise Patient Education SolutionEmail this article to a colleague.
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The Healthwise Patient Education Solution provides evidence-based patient instructions for virtually any moment in care. The meaningful health content includes instructions on how to prepare for upcoming procedures, after-care instructions, drug leaflets, and guidelines for when to call for help. And the patient instructions include “Go to Web” codes that directly link patients to more health information and interactive decision aids in the Healthwise® Knowledgebase, an online health encyclopedia. The Patient Information Education Trust is the Indian distributor for Healthwise !
Source: The Patient's Doctor - May 11, 2011 Category: Obstetricians and Gynecologists Tags: Medicine Health informatics Evidence-based medicine Health care Professional patient EHealth Source Type: blogs
Study Finds That iPhone App Can Make Accurate Stroke Diagnosis-Email this article to a colleague.
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Researchers from the University of Calgary have shown that doctors can make a stroke diagnosis using an iPhone application just as accurately (and faster) than they can on a traditional computer. In a study recently published by Journal of Medical Internet Research, two neuro-radiologists looked at 120 consecutive noncontrast computed tomography (NCCT) scans and 70 computed tomography angiogram (CTA) head scans. One used a diagnostic workstation and the other using Calgary Scientific‘s ResolutionMD Mobile app. The study results showed that using the ResolutionMD app is between 94%-100% accurate in diagnosing acute st...
Source: Medgadget - May 10, 2011 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Scott Jung Tags: informatics Net News Radiology Source Type: blogs
Samson and Sanuk New ToysEmail this article to a colleague.
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Juggling work commitments, family life and writing can be tricky. However, new vigour and inspiration has been instilled with the arrival of some geeky new toys from Samson and Sanuk Australia.
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - April 18, 2011 Category: Emergency Medicine Doctors Authors: Mike Cadogan Tags: Blog News Featured Gadget Health Health informatics Reviews Shout Out Australia gadgets geek meteor mic pick pocket podcast samson Sandals sanuk Sanük Australia toys USB microphone Source Type: blogs
Getting your grep onEmail this article to a colleague.
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Tweet In the life science software world, we are always trying to make software “easier to use by biologists”. Over the years, I’ve decided that means that the user interface and level of functionality should enable a biologist to ask the right questions and the workflow should fit their way of thinking and interrogation. Unfortunately, too often that ends up being interpreted as “let us make some form of GUI which is easy to use” without really thinking through that. At the same time, to do any sort of in depth analysis and drill downs you need a certain level of skill which no amount of R...
Source: business|bytes|genes|molecules - April 17, 2011 Category: Bioinformaticians Authors: Deepak Singh Tags: informatics Programming Software & Internet Source Type: blogs
Some Types of Cancer More Prevalent Among the Wealthier AustraliansEmail this article to a colleague.
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Frequently, but now always, cancer strikes people in the lower socioeconomic groups. The development of cancer can be related to poverty or lifestyle issues including poor nutrition, smoking, alcohol abuse, obesity, and access to care. A recent article took a difference tack and discussed cancers that are more prevalent among the wealthy in Australia (see: Some cancers more prevalent in the wealthy), Below is an excerpt from it:
A new report has shown that Australians living in wealthy areas are more likely to get breast, prostate and skin cancers than those living in poorer zones. The report from Australian Institute of H...
Source: Lab Soft News - April 7, 2011 Category: Pathologists Authors: Bruce Friedman Tags: Medical Consumerism Medical Education Medical Research Public Health informatics Source Type: blogs
The data is the questionEmail this article to a colleague.
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I have long channeled Jeff Jonas and his ideas around on data finds data. His recent blog post on the data being the query extends some of those thoughts. I find this trend fascinating, although I favor the just in time data approach, since not all information needs to be acted upon instantly, but the broader point holds. I had a similar discussion with Richard Durbin recently around data first science, where we discussed collecting data and then querying it to generate hypotheses and to see how the new data impacted existing knowledge.
It’s going to be interesting how today’s life science data systems...
Source: business|bytes|genes|molecules - April 5, 2011 Category: Bioinformaticians Authors: Deepak Singh Tags: Big Data Computing informatics Source Type: blogs
Opening Day for Health Wonk ReviewEmail this article to a colleague.
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It’s time for another baseball season, and Health Wonk Review is ready to go. as with the Spring Training Edition two weeks ago, optimism reigns. (Host Jason Shafrin of the Healthcare Economist blog proves it by calling for the Milwaukee Brewers to win the World Series this year. I guess cheeseheads are still from the Green Bay Packers’ victory in the Super Bowl two months ago.)
I didn’t make the starting lineup, but am an early choice from the bullpen for my “Slams on Berwick are getting pathetic” post. Curiously, Shafrin wades away from the controversy a bit by highlighting something said by...
Source: Neil Versel's Healthcare IT Blog - April 1, 2011 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Neil Versel Tags: health IT health reform Health Wonk Review medical informatics Don Berwick Health Affairs Mark Frisse Source Type: blogs
Cameras Monitoring Traffic Light Infractions Shown to Save LivesEmail this article to a colleague.
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It had never occurred to me before, but it makes perfect sense that cameras positioned at red lights to monitor traffic infractions can save lives (see: Red-Light Cameras Save Lives). Below is an excerpt from an article discussing this topic:
A recent study by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety has shown that red-light cameras saved 159 lives over a four-year period in the 14 large U.S. cities where the study took place. The scientists claimed that more than 800 traffic fatalities would have been prevented during the course of the study if the cameras had been deployed in all large U.S. cities. The scientists compa...
Source: Lab Soft News - March 17, 2011 Category: Pathologists Authors: Bruce Friedman Tags: Medical Research Public Health informatics Source Type: blogs
Report from AMIA – All Diseases will become OrphanEmail this article to a colleague.
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The first speaker I heard at the American Medical Informatics Joint Summit was Kenneth Buetow from the National Cancer Institute. In his typical provocative manner, he challenged the audience on the transition day from the Translational Bioinformatics to the Clinical Research Informatics Summits. He began with promoting the P4 Medicine as the new model for healthcare: personalized, predictive, preemptive, participatory. Although throughout the conference little was articulated on the participatory aspects with one exception. More on that later.
Buetow talked about defining cancer on the molecular level and the challenge...
Source: eHealth - March 12, 2011 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: John Sharp Tags: Uncategorized Disruptive Technology EMR Genomics health care predictions Medical informatics participatory medicine Source Type: blogs
American Medical Informatics Association – Clinical Research Informatics SummitEmail this article to a colleague.
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Heading to San Francisco for this AMIA meeting. Looking forward to the opportunity to present from the podium and poster session. Topics include:
Development and Sustainability of an EHR-based Chronic Kidney Disease Registry
REDCap – Characterizing the Rapid Adoption at a large Academic Health Center
Design of a Registry Management Tool for EMR Data
Research Recruitment in Anesthesia Using EMR Data
There will be many opportunities for networking. Hope to come home with lots of ideas.
Hash tag is #TBICRI11
Source: eHealth - March 7, 2011 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: John Sharp Tags: Uncategorized AMIA EMR Medical informatics Source Type: blogs
Practical machine learning and scaling data platformsEmail this article to a colleague.
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Tweet A couple of great posts on the Metamarkets blog recently that might be of relevance to the bioinformatics crowd. The first one, by Mike Driscoll, talks about lessons for building a petabyte data platform. Their four guiding principles
Experiment often, fail fast
Keep things simple to scale well
Keep things modular to accommodate change
Avoid undifferentiated heavy lifting
I still feel that the data systems we have in the life science domain aren’t doing enough to learn good lessons from the web world, which is embracing change, complexity and scale, and even small teams, like the one at Metamarkets is ...
Source: business|bytes|genes|molecules - March 5, 2011 Category: Bioinformaticians Authors: Deepak Singh Tags: Big Data Computing informatics Omics Source Type: blogs
Breaking: The Real People Behind ExtormityEmail this article to a colleague.
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As many of you know, EMR and HIPAA is a big time news company. We have a really fat budget and pay our reporters huge amounts of money to sit and smoke cigars while producing very little content of value.
One of our biggest expenses here at HIMSS is in our investigative reporting department. Our motto is that if someone else breaks a story before us, then we spend the money to break them. Yes, we’re very serious about spending outrageous money breaking stories that no one else can break.
After 3 years of investigation (and no government stimulus money), we’ve finally cracked the code on who’s behind the f...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - February 22, 2011 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: John Tags: EHR EMR Electronic Health Record Electronic Medical Record HealthCare IT EHR Vendors EMR Vendors Extormity Medical informatics Engineering MIE NoMoreClipboard Source Type: blogs
Real bioinformaticians …Email this article to a colleague.
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Tweet Neil’s been on a roll lately. His latest post touches upon something that I have written about and believe in deeply. Two bits in particular stood out
know the data sources, know the right tools and you can always sculpt a solution for your own situation.
(It didn’t surprise me one bit that Matt Wood picked up on this as well)
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Good web search skills are an essential part of the bioinformatics toolkit, but they don’t define the job. Real bioinformaticians write code.
That we need to even say this is what you get from the Curse of Blast. We have too much of the data danger zone in life sciences, ...
Source: business|bytes|genes|molecules - February 17, 2011 Category: Bioinformaticians Authors: Deepak Singh Tags: informatics Programming Software & Internet Source Type: blogs
Data and a product mindsetEmail this article to a colleague.
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Tweet Lots of interesting discussion around the web on the rise of data-driven startups and product teams. Russell Jurney’s blog post on Analytic Product Teams has picked up a lot of press, and in general that is a topic that the LinkedIn SNA team talks about quite a bit. Bradford Cross has eloquently covered Research-driven startups and more recently, this comes up in a Dataspora article on mining big data
What strikes me about this, especially light of Neil’s recent post on data scientists and my own past is that in some ways the social science space is going through a fascinating discovery about the value o...
Source: business|bytes|genes|molecules - February 14, 2011 Category: Bioinformaticians Authors: Deepak Singh Tags: Big Data informatics Software & Internet Source Type: blogs
Telemedicine Transforms Intensive Care Units in Smaller Hospitals with Remote MonitoringEmail this article to a colleague.
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I recently stumbled upon a successful example of telemedicine about which I was unaware -- the enhanced intensive care unit (eICU). Provena Health, with six hospitals in Illinois, has a web page explaining the concept which I quote from below (see: eICU - enhanced ICU):
Initially one of only a handful of health systems to implement eICU technology, the Provena eICU Connection is one of 43 eICUs of its kind in the country, which collectively monitor approximately 10 percent of ICU beds nation-wide and lead the way in innovative patient care....It's a revolutionary service that utilizes enhanced computer software and phy...
Source: Lab Soft News - February 10, 2011 Category: Pathologists Authors: Bruce Friedman Tags: Healthcare Business Healthcare Information Technology Hospitals and Healthcare Delivery Pathology informatics Source Type: blogs
Ontario and GE's Omnyx Establish Digital Pathology Center of ExcellenceEmail this article to a colleague.
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GE has announced an agreement to establish its first Global Pathology Imaging Centre of Excellence in Toronto, Ontario. GE and its digital pathology joint venture, Omnyx, will invest $7.75M along with a $2.25M grant from the Health Technology Commercialization Program created by HTX (Health Technology Exchange) and funded by the Ontario Ministry of Research and Innovation. Planned collaborative research and development partnerships will bring an additional $7.2M, for a total investment of $17.2M over the next 3 years (see: GE and the Government of Ontario Establish First Global Digital Pathology Centre of Excellence to Imp...
Source: Lab Soft News - February 8, 2011 Category: Pathologists Authors: Bruce Friedman Tags: Anatomic Pathology Digital Imaging in Pathology Healthcare Business Information Technology Medical Research Pathology informatics Source Type: blogs
Epic's Personnel Challenge: Keeping Up with the Large Number of New InstallsEmail this article to a colleague.
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In a recent note, I quoted Mr. HIStalk describing how Epic manages its sales process (see: Some Details about the Epic Sales Force and Sales Process). In the same blog note that I linked to, he also cites the recent success of Epic in writing new EMR contracts (see: Monday Morning Update 1/24/11)
Until 2009, Epic was making just 10-15 new sales a year and many of those were just for ambulatory or inpatient alone, but the percentage of enterprise sales has increased each year. In 2010, they supposedly made around 40 new sales ....
Continuing on in this same vein regarding Epic staffing and personnel issues, Mr. HIStalk resp...
Source: Lab Soft News - January 31, 2011 Category: Pathologists Authors: Bruce Friedman Tags: Electronic Medical Record Healthcare Business Healthcare Information Technology Hospitals and Healthcare Delivery Pathology informatics Source Type: blogs
The challenges of sharing proteomics dataEmail this article to a colleague.
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Danny Navarro has a great blog post on how and why sharing proteomics data is trickier than it seems. As informaticians we are quick to blame our experimental brethren about being protective of their data (although I think many computational types are very protective as well). Danny’s very valid point is that this is not as simple as just that. One of the core points he brings up is something I care about deeply, infrastructure.
I won’t go into details about the various proteomics data sharing resources and their respective strengths and weaknesses. Read Danny’s post for that. What is telling is...
Source: business|bytes|genes|molecules - January 23, 2011 Category: Bioinformaticians Authors: Deepak Singh Tags: informatics Molecules Omics Open Science Programming Source Type: blogs
Enabling incremental scienceEmail this article to a colleague.
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Tweet Last night I was attended a rather interesting private event. I won’t talk about the event in detail since it was private, but it was a mix of life science folks and technologists, with the latter pushing the former to try and get a sense of scale and boundaries. The difference in mindset between engineers and scientists was so apparent at that time. While much of the discussion was centered around really hard biological and computational problems I was reminded that science is not just about solving really hard problems. Much of it is incremental, a result of access to new types of experiments and data and inc...
Source: business|bytes|genes|molecules - January 23, 2011 Category: Bioinformaticians Authors: Deepak Singh Tags: BioIT informatics Life Science Source Type: blogs
A Motorcyclist’s Irreparable InjuryEmail this article to a colleague.
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aka Trauma Tribulation 008 A 26 year-old male was BIBA after falling off his stationary motorbike at a set of traffic lights. C-spine precautions were removed following palpation of his neck and assessment of his sphincter tone. Initially, his only complaint was pain to his right thumb, presumably from a hyperextension injury. However a detailed [...]
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - January 18, 2011 Category: Emergency Medicine Doctors Authors: Kane Guthrie Tags: Equipment / Technology Health Health informatics Medical Humor Utopia Utopian Medicine Acute Traumatic iPhone Failure Apple iPhone 4 iPhone Trauma Source Type: blogs
"Healthy Days" per Month as a Measure of Chronic Disease and DisabilitiesEmail this article to a colleague.
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A recent article about racial health disparities in the New York Times using CDC data was fascinating and I recommend it for anyone interested in general health issues (see: Broad Racial Disparities Seen in Americans’ Ills). To whet your interest, here are three short statements extracted from it:
Babies born to black women are up to three times as likely to die in infancy as those born to women of other races.
American Indians and Alaska Natives are twice as likely to die in car crashes as any other group.
More than 80 percent of all suicides are committed by whites, but young American Indian adults have the highest su...
Source: Lab Soft News - January 18, 2011 Category: Pathologists Authors: Bruce Friedman Tags: Hospitals and Healthcare Delivery Medical Consumerism Medical Education Medical Ethics Public Health informatics Source Type: blogs
Is Meditech Hampered Because of its Lack of a Robust Ambulatory EHR Product?Email this article to a colleague.
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Until about ten years ago, there was only minimal interest in IT support for ambulatory care. Successful EMR vendors such as that of Cerner were focused on inpatient care although their forward-looking "vision" statements always included ambulatory care. In terms of their major product focus, however, they were following the lead of the hospital executives who derived the bulk of their revenue from the inpatient side of the hospital. Many physicians shared this view at this time. Academic surgeons, for example, operated on mainly inpatients and then saw them as outpatients mainly to ensure that the surgical incis...
Source: Lab Soft News - January 17, 2011 Category: Pathologists Authors: Bruce Friedman Tags: Electronic Medical Record Healthcare Business Healthcare Information Technology Hospitals and Healthcare Delivery Lab Information Products Laboratory Industry Trends LIS Vendor News Pathology informatics Source Type: blogs
Google Goggles Solves Sudoku Puzzles as Well as Performing Other TricksEmail this article to a colleague.
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I had previously heard about Google Goggles but do not have the app on my smartphone -- I don't have an Android phone. However, I may consider one in the future. It turns out that the app can perform a new trick that astonishes me (see: Android Google Goggles Adds Barcode Scanning, Sudoku Cheats). Below are the details:
Google's latest version of Google Goggles is apparently powerful enough to beat a Sudoku champ at her own game....Google announced Goggles 1.3 client for Android, featuring instant barcode scanning and print ad recognition. And as an added bonus, Goggles 1.3 can also help you cheat on Sudoku. First ...
Source: Lab Soft News - January 13, 2011 Category: Pathologists Authors: Bruce Friedman Tags: Digital Imaging in Pathology Information Technology Pathology informatics Source Type: blogs
Fewer Hospital Admissions for Heart Failure Among Better Educated PatientsEmail this article to a colleague.
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I have long been interested in the correlation between good health and level of education (see: Correlation of Sociodemographic Status with Personal Engagement in Cancer Screening Programs). Here's a quote from an article in the NYT that succinctly summarizes this issue (see: A Surprising Secret to a Long Life: Stay in School):
James Smith, a health economist at the RAND Corporation, has heard a variety of hypotheses about what it takes to live a long life — money, lack of stress, a loving family, lots of friends....But what, he asks, is cause and what is effect? And how can they be disentangled? He is venturing, of ...
Source: Lab Soft News - January 12, 2011 Category: Pathologists Authors: Bruce Friedman Tags: Hospitals and Healthcare Delivery Medical Consumerism Medical Education Medical Research Public Health informatics Source Type: blogs
How Valid Is "Anecdotal" Information about Clinical Information Systems?Email this article to a colleague.
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Anecdotal information is defined as being based on personal experiences or, alternatively, on reports of individual cases rather than more rigorously acquired data. With regard to the selection of a new information system such as an LIS, it is nearly impossible to obtain detailed side-by-side comparisons of competing systems in the market. I personally pay no attention to the KLAS rankings (see: Mr. HIStalk Comments on KLAS). In order to make an informed decision when replacing an LIS, is it therefore necessary to perform a rigorous request-for-proposal (RFP) (see: More Ideas about Developing and Refining an RFP, Assessing...
Source: Lab Soft News - January 11, 2011 Category: Pathologists Authors: Bruce Friedman Tags: Clinical Lab Industry News Electronic Medical Record Healthcare Business Healthcare Information Technology Laboratory Industry Trends LIS Definitions and Strategy LIS Vendor News Pathology informatics Source Type: blogs
Is Cerner Modifying Its EMR Business Model?Email this article to a colleague.
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This article on Idaho hospital EMR projects describes Cerner, being implemented at North Canyon Medical Center for $2 million, as “an economical system that works well for smaller rural hospitals.” Syringa Hospital (a strangely satisfying hospital name) paid $1.3 million.
What? The Cerner EMR as “an economical system that works well for smaller rural hospitals.” I, like Mr. HIStalk, was surprised by this description and had to think about the idea for a while. Then some of my thoughts started to come together. First of all, and as I noted in a previous note, Epic is winning most of the contracts for the highest-end...
Source: Lab Soft News - January 6, 2011 Category: Pathologists Authors: Bruce Friedman Tags: Healthcare Business Healthcare Information Technology Hospitals and Healthcare Delivery Lab Information Products LIS Definitions and Strategy LIS Vendor News Pathology informatics Source Type: blogs
Top Eleven Technology Innovations for the Past Ten YearsEmail this article to a colleague.
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I tend to be a sucker for the various "top ten" lists and they are common at this time of year. I tend to always read them, mainly to see if I agree with the list. Hence my interest in the "top 11" technology innovations of the past ten years published by the IEEE (see: The top 11 technology innovations of the last 10 years, from the IEEE). IEEE is an organization that bills itself on its web site as "the world’s largest professional association dedicated to advancing technological innovation and excellence for the benefit of humanity." Why the top eleven? I suspect that there were some ties...
Source: Lab Soft News - December 28, 2010 Category: Pathologists Authors: Bruce Friedman Tags: Healthcare Information Technology Lab Information Products Laboratory Industry Trends Pathology informatics Source Type: blogs
More Information about Google's Chrome OSEmail this article to a colleague.
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In a previous note, I began to address the Chrome browser/operating system (see: The Decline of Microsoft: The Clues Seem to Be Obvious). A recent NYT article begins to fill in some of the white space concerning this product (see: For Google, the Browser Does It All). Below is an excerpt from it:
....Chrome stores everything that people have on their computers — like documents, photos and e-mail — online, or in tech parlance, in the cloud. In Google’s vision of a world where all computers run on its Chrome OS, anyone can walk up to any computer with an Internet connection and gain access to all their information....I...
Source: Lab Soft News - December 2, 2010 Category: Pathologists Authors: Bruce Friedman Tags: Information Technology Medical Consumerism Pathology informatics Source Type: blogs
