Tennessee Center helps tap into government money Jun 20, 2009
Panelists include: Dr. David Brailer, director of the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT Don Detmer, CEO, American Medical Informatics Association David Goetz Jr., finance and admnistration commissioner, State of TennesseeFor more information, visit www. healthcarecouncil. (Nashville Business Journal, TN)
ENT Society releases novel clinical practice guideline manual Jun 1, 2009
The manual's authors are Richard M. Rosenfeld, MD, MPH from SUNY Downstate and the Long Island College Hospital and Richard N. Shiffman MD, MCIS from the Yale Center for Medical Informatics and Yale University School of Medicine. Reporters who wish to obtain a copy of the supplement should contact Jessica Mikulski at 1-703-535-3762, or at. (EurekAlert!)
Oregon Department of Human Services Selects APS Healthcare to Manage Expanded Statewide Medicaid Program May 29, 2009
APS will partner with key Oregon stakeholders, including the Department of Medical Informatics and Clinical Epidemiology at the Oregon Health and Science University (OHSU), which will work with the state and APS to assess the program's impact. APS also will form a Clinical Advisory Committee of state medical organizations to establish and maintain a consistently high level of communication with the provider community. (PR Newswire)
Pediatrician creates easier way to identify kids' high BP May 26, 2009
D., M.P.H., MetroHealth System pediatrician, internist, and chief medical informatics officer and Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine researcher and faculty member. Nearly 75% of cases of hypertension and 90% of cases of prehypertension in children and adolescents go undiagnosed. (EurekAlert!)
Regenstrief Institute is 'pace car' for coordination of medical care at Indy 500 May 19, 2009
Regenstrief Institute research scientists form a highly respected cadre of health services researchers linked to one of the largest and most comprehensive medical informatics laboratories in the world. . (EurekAlert! -- Business News)
Unique electronic strategy alerts physicians to latest clinical information on H1N1 flu May 6, 2009
D. Dr. Overhage is the director of medical informatics at the Regenstrief Institute and Regenstrief Professor of Medical Informatics at the IU School of Medicine. He also is president and chief executive officer of IHIE.. (EurekAlert! -- Business News)
Administrative Advantage Selects ZyDoc e-Transcription Platform for Clients May 5, 2009
In 2004, ZyDoc was ranked 3rd nationally in medical transcription by the Medical Records Institute and has also won awards from the medical informatics, speech recognition, and software industries. The technology platform is augmented by 24-hour U.S.-based support through the ZyDoc Operations Center featuring unsurpassed accuracy. (Yahoo News -- Press Releases)
Study suggests doctors could add to Wikipedia Apr 30, 2009
Medical professionals should recognize that Wikipedia has become a major online source of health information for consumers, researchers wrote in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association. The study was prepared by two medical students, Michael R. Laurent at the Belgium-based Catholic University of Leuven and Tim J. Vickers at Washington University in St. Louis. (MSNBC -- Technology)
Electronic health records raise doubt Apr 13, 2009
"The problem is this kind of information should never be used clinically, especially if you don't have starting or ending dates" attached to each problem, said deBronkart's primary care doctor, Daniel Z. Sands, who is also the director of medical informatics at Cisco Systems. Personal health records, such as those offered by Google Health, are a promising tool for patients' empowerment - but inaccuracies could be "a huge problem," said Dr. Paul Tang, the chief medical information officer for the... (Boston Globe)
AAAS/Science to launch new journal, Science Translational Medicine Apr 6, 2009
The scope of content in Science Translational Medicine will encompass advances related to cancer; cardiovascular disease; metabolism, diabetes and obesity; neuroscience, neurology, and psychiatry; immunology and vaccines; infectious diseases; policy; behavior; bioengineering; physics; chemical genomics and drug discovery; imaging; applied physical sciences; medical nanotechnology; drug delivery; biomarkers; gene therapy and regenerative medicine; toxicology and pharmacokinetics; data mining;... (EurekAlert! -- Business News)
Breast Cancer: To Screen Or Not To Screen? Apr 5, 2009
As this research article is highly controversial, BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making has provided two commentaries from experts in the field ... BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making, (in press). (Science Daily)
IBM, Mayo Form Open-source Health IT Consortium Apr 3, 2009
Biomedical informatics researchers at IBM and the Mayo Clinic have launched a new open-source consortium focused on natural language processing (NLP), in an effort to help doctors share diagnosis and treatment information ... "Large-scale information extraction from the clinical narrative is a vital component in advancing translational research and patient care," Guergana Savova, a medical informatics specialist and Mayo's lead on the project, said in a statement. (Yahoo News -- Technology)
Study: Mammogram Benefits May Be Overstated Apr 3, 2009
Writing in the BioMed Central journal BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making, they said a woman aged 55 has a 6 percent risk of developing breast cancer over the next 15 years. "Repeated screening starting at age 50 saves about 1.8 lives over 15 years for every 1,000 women screened," they wrote. (Newsmax)
Share your thoughts Mar 21, 2009
As my colleague David Zitner, Director of Medical Informatics at Dalhousie University in Halifax and Health Policy Fellow at my Institute, likes to say, no health care institution in Canada can tell you how many people got better, how many people got worse, and how many people s condition was left unchanged by their contact with their institution. None of them can give you an answer. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Health)
Assessing IT in healthcare Mar 10, 2009
Called the Alliance for Clinical Excellence (Ace), the first movers of this global, non-profit initiative include the Hong Kong Society of Medical Informatics, Singapores Ministry Of Health Holdings Pte Ltd and the National University of Singapores School of Computing. The first IT healthcare solutions providers involved in Ace are Orion Health (from the United States), iSoft and Chik Services Pte Ltd (both from Australia) and US enterprise solutions giant Oracle Corp. The Ace secretariat is... (The Star Online, Malaysia)
Giving doctors the complete picture Mar 7, 2009
The study, entitled "Using Computerized Provider Order Entry and Clinical Decision Support to Improve Referring Physicians' Implementation of Consultants' Medical Recommendations," earned Dr. Were the American Medical Informatics Association's 2008 prize for Best Student Paper and is published in the March/April 2009 issue of Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association. Dr. Were developed the physician support tool during his fellowship in medical informatics at the Regenstrief... (EurekAlert!)
Immune System 'Atlas' Will Speed Detection Of Kidney Transplant Mar 1, 2009
"An individual's antibody profile is a new aspect of human physiology that can now be surveyed in an unbiased way, the same way genes can," said co-senior author Atul Butte, MD, PhD, assistant professor of medical informatics and of pediatrics. "That's very exciting." Butte is also a member of the Stanford Cancer Center. (Science Daily)
Regenstrief Institute receives World Health Organization designation Feb 21, 2009
INDIANAPOLIS The World Health Organization has designated the Regenstrief Institute's medical informatics group as the world's first WHO Collaborating Center for Medical Informatics. The four-year designation, given for the "design, application, and research of medical information systems," is recognition of the international leadership and depth of expertise of the Institute's medical informatics group in the innovative use of information technology within medicine ... "We are honored by the... (EurekAlert! -- Business News)
Sharing electronic health data Feb 17, 2009
To protect privacy, doctors and nurses can access only the files of patients they re treating, said Dr. Peter Sanderson, director of medical informatics operations for Ministry Health Care. All access can be traced to determine who viewed a patient s information, what information they reviewed, and when and where they accessed that data. (Milwaukee Business Journal, WI)
Tech for America Feb 11, 2009
But wait a second here's Don Detmer, president of the American Medical Informatics Association. In an to Obama shortly before the inauguration, Detmer called on the new administration to spend $10 billion a year for five years to create electronic medical records, a huge project that would require the training and hiring of tens of thousands of new health care and technology workers. (Slate)
New guideline for prescribing opioid pain drugs published Feb 7, 2009
"This guideline was a true multidisciplinary effort that sought to address in a balanced manner the many challenging issues that clinicians face with regard to when and how to prescribe opioids for chronic noncancer pain," said Roger Chou, M.D., principal investigator; director of the American Pain Society Clinical Practice Guidelines Program; scientific director of the Oregon Evidence-Based Practice Center at OHSU; and associate professor of medical informatics and clinical epidemiology, and... (EurekAlert!)
Routine scans for low-back pain do not improve outcomes Feb 7, 2009
"Our study shows that performing routine X-rays or MRIs for patients with low-back pain does not lead to improved pain, function or anxiety level, and there were even some trends toward worse outcomes," said Roger Chou, M.D., lead author; scientific director of the Oregon Evidence-Based Practice Center at OHSU; and associate professor of medical informatics and clinical epidemiology, and medicine (general internal medicine and geriatrics) in the OHSU School of Medicine. "Clinicians may think... (EurekAlert!)
Regenstrief Institute tapped by CDC to combat potentially catastrophic disease outbreaks Mar 15, 2008
"Our selection to participate in this important effort recognizes Indiana's established leadership in using health information technology for public health improvement," said Dr. Overhage, director of medical informatics at the Regenstrief Institute and president and CEO of the Indiana Health Information Exchange ... Regenstrief Institute research scientists form a highly respected cadre of health services researchers linked to one of the largest and most comprehensive medical informatics... (EurekAlert! -- Business News)
Quest for knowledge Feb 18, 2008
Local Search Site Search. THIS STORY HAS BEEN FORMATTED FOR EASY PRINTING. (Boston Globe)
Why The Web Tells Us What We Already Know Jan 29, 2008
What also matters is where the information appears in the search results and how much time a person spends looking at it, according to the research which has been published in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association. "The first or the last document the user sees has a much greater impact on their decisions," said Professor Coiera, who is the Director of the Centre for Health Informatics at UNSW.. (Science Daily)
Battling potential disease outbreaks online Jan 18, 2008
Dr. Overhage is the director of medical informatics at the Regenstrief Institute and Regenstrief Professor of Medical Informatics at the IU School of Medicine. He also is president and chief executive officer of the Indiana Health Information Exchange, a collaboration of Indiana health care institutions to help improve patient safety and efficiency. (EurekAlert!)
Predicting Growth Hormone Treatment Success Dec 18, 2007
BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2007, 7:40 (12 December 2007) (). Adapted from materials provided by. (Science Daily)
Medical Lab Tests Could Confuse Computer Systems With Several Names For Same Test Dec 18, 2007
17, 2007) I may say soda and you may say pop, but what if the hospital lab you go to today says BMP and the one you visit next week calls the same test SMA7. Your physician knows that these are the same tests, but the computer systems they use don't automatically know. (Science Daily)
The dirty work of health care information technology Dec 15, 2007
The study, published in the 2007 Proceedings of the American Medical Informatics Association Symposium, has been awarded the 2007 AMIA Distinguished Paper Award, one of only three such awards made this year in a field of 175 papers ... Dr. Overhage is director of medical informatics and research scientist at the Regenstrief Institute, Inc.; Regenstrief Professor of Medical Informatics at IU School of Medicine and president and CEO of the Indiana Health Information Exchange. (EurekAlert!)
Telemedicine publication expands coverage Nov 22, 2007
At the helm of Telemedicine and e-Health are its two distinguished editors, Ronald C. Merrell, MD, FACS, Professor of Surgery and Director, Medical Informatics and Technology Applications Consortium, Virginia Commonwealth University, and Charles R. Doarn, MBA, Deputy Director, Advanced Center for Telemedicine and Surgical Innovation, University of Cincinnati said Liebert. Peer-reviewed papers ensure that applications of these tools are best understood and emulated. (EurekAlert! -- Business News)
Estimation of progression of multi-state chronic disease using the Markov model and prevalence pool concept Nov 9, 2007
BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2007, 7:34doi:10. 1186/1472-6947-7-34. (BioMed Central)
Carestream Health Wins Two Awards Nov 3, 2007
Frost van also recognized Carestream Health with its award for Best Customer Value in the medical informatics market. ll/yc. (R News)
Incidental Findings on Brain MRI in the General Population Nov 1, 2007
From the Departments of Epidemiology and Biostatistics (M.W.V., M.A.I., A.H., M.M.B.B.), Radiology (M.W.V., H.L.T., G.P.K., W.J.N., A.L.), Neurosurgery (A.J.P.E.V.), and Medical Informatics (W.J.N.), Erasmus MC University Medical Center, Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Address reprint requests to Dr. van der Lugt at the Department of Radiology, Erasmus MC University Medical Center, 's-Gravendijkwal 230, Rotterdam 3015 CE, the Netherlands, or at a.vanderlugt{at}erasmusmc. (New England Journal of Medicine)
Molecular condom may be commercialized under Utah-India deal Oct 30, 2007
Globerians resources will help medical and bioinformatics researchers and students at the University of Utah identify emerging opportunities for the development and commercialization of the Us medical informatics expertise. Future collaborative efforts may include advancing health information research and data management technologies to provide individuals and institutions global access to health information. (EurekAlert! -- Business News)
Microsoft offers free HealthVault for patients' records Oct 5, 2007
Microsoft teamed with more than 40 companies and organizations, including the American Heart Association, Allscripts Healthcare Solutions Inc., a Johnson on diabetes management program called LifeScan Inc., softwaremaker Kryptiq Corp., Home Diagnostics Inc., New York-Presbyterian Hospital and Medical Informatics Engineering, which provides electronic medical records. The true potential of HealthVault will take time to develop, said Steve Shihadeh, general manager of the company's Health... (San Francisco Chronicle -- Business)
Unanticipated consequences of health-care information technology Sep 19, 2007
This study appears in the September issue of the Journal of American Medical Informatics Association JAMIA.. Use of sophisticated HIT in hospitals is increasing dramatically. (EurekAlert!)
Developing a web-based information resource for palliative care: an action-research inspired approach Sep 14, 2007
BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2007, 7:26 doi:10. 1186/1472-6947-7-26. (BioMed Central)
Kaiser considers tech to care for patients at home Sep 4, 2007
"My personal dream," said Karita Ilvonen, a researcher on loan to Kaiser's Garfield Center from Stanford Medical Informatics, "If I could have one thing, it would be the scale locking the fridge door.". a Carlsbad company, makes a device that transmits data recorded using some 40 different biometric measurement devices, such as blood pressure cuffs, glucose monitors and insulin pumps, representing major conditions from chronic heart failure to diabetes and asthma. (East Bay Business Times, CA)
New survey documents the headaches of computerized medicine Aug 3, 2007
The survey results were described in a research paper published in the July/August issue of the peer-reviewed Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association ... D., M.L.S., M.S., M.B.A., the lead investigator, who is an associate professor and vice chair, department of medical informatics and clinical epidemiology, OHSU School of Medicine ... Sittig also serves as director of applied research in medical informatics for Northwest Permanente, PC. The research was supported by a grant from... (EurekAlert!)
W-B medical firm gets boost from county Jul 27, 2007
United Medical Informatics is the first Wyoming Valley business to take advantage of this new loan program, said John Augustine of the Greater Wilkes-Barre Chamber of Business and Industry. UMI is one of the newest tenants of the Innovation Center, a business incubator on South Main Street run by the chamber to foster the development of start-up companies. (Wilkes Barre Citizen's Voice, PA)
No contract yet for court-related employees Jul 21, 2007
The commissioner approved a $50,000 business development loan to Loan Unified Medical Informatics for a $1. 8 million project in Wilkes-Barre. (The Citizen's Voice, PA)
Traffic Pollution May Raise Heart Risks by Hardening Arteries Jul 17, 2007
Coronary atherosclerosis is the underlying pathology for the events people suffer from, like sudden cardiac death,'' said Barbara Hoffmann, the study's lead author and a researcher at the Institute for Medical Informatics at the University of Duisburg- Essen in Essen, Germany. Coronary atherosclerosis causes complications when plaque on artery walls blocks blood flow. (Bloomberg)
Elsevier's 'Procedures Consult' first to blend clinical information Jul 12, 2007
Procedures Consult allows physicians, residents and students to customize their online educational experiences, says Dr. Jonathan Teich, an attending physician in emergency medicine at Harvard's Brigham and Women's Hospital and Chief Medical Informatics Officer at Elsevier. Physicians, and other clinicians who perform procedures can access the full details for an upcoming procedure or settle on quick review summaries for emergencies. (EurekAlert! -- Business News)
Predicting Survivability For Cancer Patients Jun 29, 2007
D., director, Applied Research in Medical Informatics Northwest Permanente; John Holland, M.D., associate professor of radiation medicine, OHSU School of Medicine, a member of the OHSU Cancer Institute; and Charles Thomas Jr., M.D., chairman, Department of Radiation Medicine, OHSU School of Medicine and a member of the OHSU Cancer Institute. The research was funded by a National Institutes of Health's National Library of Medicine post-doctoral fellowship in biomedical informatics. (Science Daily)
OHSU Cancer Institute researchers get closer to predict survivability for some cancer patients Jun 28, 2007
D., director, Applied Research in Medical Informatics Northwest Permanente; John Holland, M.D., associate professor of radiation medicine, OHSU School of Medicine, a member of the OHSU Cancer Institute; and Charles Thomas Jr., M.D., chairman, Department of Radiation Medicine, OHSU School of Medicine and a member of the OHSU Cancer Institute. Wang is also a post-doctoral fellow in the Department Medical Informatics and Clinical Epidemiology, OHSU School of Medicine ... The research was funded by... (EurekAlert!)
First 4D Virtual Human Created, Dubbed CAVEman May 29, 2007
This project is a major breakthrough in medical informatics and systems biology, says Dr. Grant Gall, dean of the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Calgary. My congratulations to Christoph Sensen and his team for building a tool that will be useful not only to researchers studying disease, but also to physicians exploring new pathways in surgical planning. (Science Daily)
Confidentiality and privacy of personal health information is critical to acceptance of NHIN Apr 18, 2007
Dr. Zaroukian is a member of ACPs Medical Informatics Subcommittee and Medical Director of the Michigan State University (MSU) Internal Medicine Clinic and the Universitys Chief Medical Information Officer. He spoke with the subcommittee by phone. (EurekAlert!)
Desi immigrants in US: 'No sex before marriage' Apr 9, 2007
The survey was conducted by Neeti Joshi and her colleagues from the Department of Medical Informatics at the Columbia University under the overall supervision of Vimla L Patel among New Yorkers. It was published in the Columbia Undergraduate Science Journal and the results were reported by IndoLink, an ethnic portal for Asian Indians. (India Times)
Tackling autism online Apr 2, 2007
"So far, the biggest complaint was that we are not asking enough questions," said Paul Law, director of medical informatics at the Maryland institute. He also directs the interactive autism network. (Newsday -- Health)
Internet Use Can Boost Breast Cancer Patients' Faith in Docs Mar 30, 2007
The study, funded by the U.S. National Cancer Institute, is in the April issue of the International Journal of Medical Informatics. More information. (Health-Finder)
Global Computer Grid To Analyze Bird Flu Mar 26, 2007
Added Arzberger: Fighting a pandemic will also be easier if we put in place the infrastructure to replicate data, support medical informatics, and even assist in remote diagnosis. UC San Diego will lead the one-year project, with more than 350,000 in funding from the Telemedicine and Advanced Technology Research Center (TATRC), part of the U.S. Army Medical Research and Material Command (USAMRMC). (Science Daily)
Study: Online information may improve cancer patients' opinions about doctors Mar 21, 2007
The results of the study are published in the April 2007 issue of the International Journal of Medical Informatics. The Center of Excellence in Cancer Communications Research was funded by the National Cancer Institute to improve the quality of life for cancer patients and their families, particularly those from underserved populations. (EurekAlert!)
BlueCross taps BlueCare vet to lead Medicare Advantage program Mar 16, 2007
In that job, she oversaw the start of a medical informatics and medical management division. Most recently she serviced as director of health care services operations. (Nashville Business Journal, TN)
Hole poked in hospital cellphone shroud Mar 14, 2007
Chris O'Connor, director of medical informatics in the ICU, said the hospital needed to get beyond a paper-based system, which often relied on notes jotted on pieces of paper towel. Having seen first-hand the dangers posed by communication lapses, he has championed the hospital's testing of the BlackBerry in the ICU.. (Globe and Mail)
Jazz musician enjoys Kendo Mar 14, 2007
He attended the University of Utah in Salt Lake City where he got his bachelor s in biology and his master s in medical informatics. While at U of U he also studied karate. (Pocatello Idaho State Journal, ID)
University receives informatics program funding Feb 20, 2007
as medical informatics training site; Engineering, Medical Schools to collaborate ... The University will become one of the National Library for Medicine's sites for medical informatics training in June after having successfully filed a proposal for funding from the organization last March ... The practice of medical informatics deals with applying "computer and communications technology to the field of health," according to a NLM press release. (The Cavalier Daily, VA)
Israeli medical IT mission checks potential local ties Feb 3, 2007
DbMotion Ltd., a medical informatics company based in Ra anana, has experience building regional health information networks in Israel. Clalit Health Services, Israel s largest healthcare organization, used dbMotion to link healthcare providers at Israeli hospitals, clinics, pharmacies, labs and imaging centers. (Cleveland Jewish News, OH)
Marshfield Clinic's electronic health record first to receive CCHIT certification Jan 30, 2007
D., FACMI, director, Marshfield Clinic Biomedical Informatics Research Center and associate medical director, Medical Informatics ... Recognized as a national leader in health care information technology, Marshfield Clinic was honored in 2006 by the Association of Medical Directors of Information Systems for excellence and achievement in applied medical informatics. (EurekAlert! -- Business News)
Health data goes high tech Jan 7, 2007
The (Louisville) Courier-Journal, using information provided by the American Health Information Management Association and American Medical Informatics Association. Technology helps patients take charge of health records. (USA Today -- News)
Surgery in 3-D Jan 5, 2007
Meanwhile, it has the capacity to add medical informatics, allowing for the screen-in-screen viewing, he said. In the future, Tucker thinks the informatics will allow surgeons to call up a patient's medical records and other data on command. (San Diego Union-Tribune -- Business)
