• The Future of Cloud Computing and EHR Rife with Opportunities and Challenges

    Updated: 2012-02-08 15:35:08
    Source: EHRScope Content: “Cloud computing is gaining momentum across several industry sectors, but has yet to be fully embraced by health care organizations due to privacy and integration concerns. Health care companies grappling with the decision to adopt cloud computing platforms have the unique challenges of patient privacy, and even more daunting, the integration of [...]

  • mHealth: Remote Patient Monitoring Is On The Rise, With Smartphones Leading The Way

    Updated: 2012-02-08 15:31:46
    Source: Rip Empson, TechCrunch Content: “Last month, we took a look at some of the ways mobile technology is transforming the health industry. While there are many factors affecting this transformation, like artificial intelligence, big data, 3-D printing, social health networks, and remote communications, to name a few (check out Josh’s post on this here), [...]

  • EHR Issues in Recording and Documenting Clinical Data

    Updated: 2012-02-08 14:42:18
    Source: Ron Sterling, HITECHAnswers Content: “With paper exam notes, the doctor and staff record information and the note reflects what they recorded. Unfortunately, EHR based notes may not be as direct. Many EHR systems store the information that you enter in one way, and offer a variety of presentation and reporting options. The ability of the [...]

  • Demystifying healthcare transformation Part 1 – EMR Shortfalls

    Updated: 2012-02-08 14:02:52
    Source: Chris Taylor, The Successful Workplace Content: “There are real challenges with Electronic Medical Records (EMR) beyond getting doctors to write things down (a feat in itself). Healthcare providers are being pushed to adopt EMR, but few are at Stage 7, shown at right. Because certification at lower levels doesn’t mean system interoperability, EMR ends [...]

  • Greater Manchester Police deploys two-way CMS

    Updated: 2012-02-08 13:30:27
    Greater Manchester Police (GMP) has implemented a case management system from STL Technologies that has a two-way interface with the Crown Prosecution Service’s system.

  • Demand for IT staff increases in 2012

    Updated: 2012-02-08 11:49:23
    Demand for permanent IT staff increased in January with IT workers rated as the second most in demand professionals, according to research.

  • Security Think Tank: What are the challenges/opportunities of smartphone security policy? (part 7)

    Updated: 2012-02-08 11:39:06
    Smartphones have become wide spread in both the consumer and business realms. More importantly, employees expect they can hold just one device for their everyday use thus the boundary between personal and business usage is diminishing. The companies should have clear set of policies, requirements and standards that cover usage of smartphones to conduct business activities, writes Vladimir Jirasek, director of alliances, Cloud Security Alliance UK & Ireland.

  • For perspective on mHealth challenges, look to developing countries

    Updated: 2012-02-08 11:21:46
    Source: Gienna Shaw, FierceMobileHealthcare Content: “Mobile healthcare shows promise in developing countries, but when you look closely at some of the great programs and dedicated people that are out there with boots on the ground, it quickly becomes apparent that Western ideas about technology don’t always translate. The past decade has seen remarkable growth in the [...]

  • Application security not a top priority for UK organisations

    Updated: 2012-02-08 09:56:38
    As operating systems become increasingly attack-resistant, cyber criminals are moving up the stack, butt relatively few UK organisations are planning application security projects.

  • First reports of IPV6 DDoS attacks raise security fears

    Updated: 2012-02-08 09:45:02
    Ahead of the official launch day on 6 June 2012, network service providers are reporting the first IPV6 distributed denial-of-service attacks.

  • Computer Order Entry Systems Reduce Preventable Adverse Drug Events

    Updated: 2012-02-08 09:44:10
    Source: HealthCanal Content: “Despite a national mandate to implement electronic health records and computer order entry systems (CPOE) by 2014, only approximately 30 percent of hospitals nationwide have done so and around 40 percent of hospitals in the state of Massachusetts have made this transition. New research from Brigham and Women’s Hospital examined the impact of [...]

  • Symantec reveals that code-stealing hackers attempted extortion

    Updated: 2012-02-08 09:33:55
    A month after confirming that hackers had stolen a segment of its source code, Symantec has revealed that the hackers tried to extort money in exchange for keeping the code private.

  • Few SMS health applications have been evaluated

    Updated: 2012-02-07 16:52:29
    Source: Brian Dolan, mobihealthnews Content: “The Journal of Medical Internet Research recently published a research paper called, SMS Applications for Disease Prevention in Developing Countries, that found while there have been many text message-powered health initiatives, very few of them have been sufficiently evaluated.” Article Brian Dolan, mobihealthnews, 7 January 2012 Article (Déglise 2012)

  • U-M Researchers Call for More Robust Electronic Health Record Data Sharing Capabilities

    Updated: 2012-02-07 16:44:08
    Source: The Sacramento Bee Content: “U-M researchers are calling for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to encourage a more seamless exchange of information between electronic health records and immunization registries. This means the criteria by which doctors’ offices qualify for Meaningful Use incentive payments would include an emphasis on synchronizing electronic health records and [...]

  • UK business PC sales plummet as CIOs cut back

    Updated: 2012-02-07 16:22:42
    The UK PC market saw its worst decline in five years in the last quarter of 2011, according to data from Gartner

  • Hospitals criticized for patient data-mining

    Updated: 2012-02-07 15:35:41
    Source: Alicia Caramenico, FierceHealthcare Content: “Hospitals are coming under fire for using private health and financial records to target affluent or privately insured patients, according to Kaiser Health News and USA Today. Although data mining is common among hospitals, patient advocates and privacy groups are accusing hospitals of using the business practice to secure profits by [...]

  • Medway NHS cuts costs with virtualisation project

    Updated: 2012-02-07 13:41:37
    Medway NHS Foundation Trust is reducing its costs and carbon footprint by virtualising its IT using a blade server environment

  • Utility supplier benchmarks IT

    Updated: 2012-02-07 11:09:16
    Gas supplier Wales & West Utilities (WWU) has benchmarked in-house IT and external services agreements to keep its cost, service levels and processes in line with the best on offer in its sector.

  • More than half of government projects behind schedule

    Updated: 2012-02-07 10:51:50
    More than half of major government projects are behind schedule, according to the head of Whitehall's Major Projects Authority.

  • Electronic Health Records Face Rapidly Changing Technology

    Updated: 2012-02-07 10:21:24
    Source: Raymond Rendleman, The Lund Report Content: “Technology is changing so quickly that state officials and advocates overseeing more streamlined transfers of health information in Oregon are scrambling to keep up. 2010 may not seem like that long ago, but from the perspective of a computer, it’s already the Stone Age. That was the year that [...]

  • Survey reveals need for new approach to back-up and recovery

    Updated: 2012-02-07 09:15:47
    Traditional approaches to back-up and recovery of IT systems no longer work and a new approach is needed, a survey of more than 1,400 IT professionals worldwide has revealed.

  • UK to take part in weekend protests against Acta

    Updated: 2012-02-07 07:51:56
    Protests against the controversial Anti-Counterfeiting Agreement (Acta) have been organised across Europe, with most set to take place on 11 February.

  • Ofcom proposes phone and broadband price cuts by BT Openreach

    Updated: 2012-02-07 07:15:03
    Telecoms regulator Ofcom has told BT’s wholesale division Openreach to reduce the prices charged to ISPs that use BT’s lines.

  • (ISC)2 volunteers head to UK schools on Safer Internet Day

    Updated: 2012-02-07 06:04:41
    (ISC)2, the largest not-for-profit membership body of certified information security professionals worldwide, is engaging with children at UK schools to mark the ninth annual world Safer Internet Day.

  • Improving Electronic Health Records Retrieval Using Contexts

    Updated: 2012-02-06 17:06:48
    Source: Prados-Suárez B et al, Expert Systems with Applications, 2012 Content: This paper aims to solve a recently arose problem, related to the access to the Electronic Health Records (EHR) in the Hospitals. Due to the digitalization of the information contained in the medical records, and the growing availability of devices that directly generate digital [...]

  • Internet services could drop out during the Olympics

    Updated: 2012-02-06 12:22:55
    Businesses using home-working policies during the Olympics are being warned that internet services could drop out during the Games.

  • Government IT subject to heaviest spending cuts, says NAO

    Updated: 2012-02-06 12:17:58
    Government IT and other back office functions have so far taken the brunt of spending cuts, according to the National Audit Office.

  • Use of collaboration techniques and classification algorithms in personal healthcare

    Updated: 2012-02-06 10:45:08
    Source: Trajkovik V et al, Health and Technology, 2012 Content: Adoption of mobile devices and technology in the field of medical monitoring and personal health care systems is very important nowadays, especially when it comes to certain categories of people with chronicle diseases who need 24 hour access to medical care. The collaborative Information system [...]

  • 10 Most read articles week 29 January 2012

    Updated: 2012-02-06 09:08:34
    Source: Lodewijk Bos, ICMCC Content: Electronic health record goes personal world-wide Natural language processing in EMRs can improve disease tracking 2012: Go Big (Data) or Go Home Study: Diagnostic imaging on iPads twice as slow Blog post: Dr. Watson, what made me sick? Healthcare technology: A competitive advantage in improving the patient experience How changing patient workflow can make [...]

  • Mobile News Page on d8taplex

    Updated: 2012-02-06 05:15:51
    In a fit of agility, I added a page for mobile devices to get some of the d8taplex news info: d8taplex.com/m/hapaxPage.html. This shows the articles crawled from Reuters which are getting a reasonable amount of bit.ly juice. Note that currently...

  • News Aggregator News

    Updated: 2012-02-06 04:00:00
    For some reason, a number of projects are coming out of the closet this week. I mentioned Reuters 'Social Pulse' briefly already (not to self: write post describing how while many Reuters journalists have twitter accounts, no-one is tweeting...). Here...

  • Analytics and Data Science Reports

    Updated: 2012-02-05 18:04:55
    I would like to share with you two reports regarding analytics that I read recently. The first one is Intelligence for Everyone: Transforming Business Analytics Across the Enterprise is written by Irfan Khan from SAP. According to the author, big data is a big lie. The fear from the industry regarding big data is not [...]

  • Two Studies Find that Patients Want Access to their Health Records, Including Clinical Pathology Test Data

    Updated: 2012-02-05 16:22:28
    Source: Dark Daily Content: “Data from two studies here in the United States affirms that patients want access to their health records. Consequently, health systems are increasingly making it easier for patients to get access to prescription lists, medical laboratory test results and now even doctors’ notes. These findings are important for clinical laboratories and anatomic [...]

  • Reuters Social Pulse

    Updated: 2012-02-02 18:57:52
    Briefly - I just saw that Reuters launched a site which connects the world of journalism with that of the social web: Reuters Social Pulse. This has similarities with what I've been experimenting with at the d8tplex news page which...

  • Some Tweet, Some Don't - at Reuters

    Updated: 2012-02-02 05:45:28
    A minor update to the d8taplex news site has An updated set of journalist and editor author identities - now numbering over 500 An indication of the number of followers each tweeting author has An indication as to whether the...

  • Google+ Is Like 401K For Search

    Updated: 2012-02-01 04:56:57
    I'm trying to figure out which camera to go for: the GoPro or the Contour. When I search on Google for help in finding some way to compare, it was suggested to me to ask on Google+: I then waited...

  • Google Provides Links to Journalists' G+ Profile

    Updated: 2012-01-29 16:49:07
    Google New - which aggregates, clusters and ranks news articles from many sources - recently started including links to the Google+ profiles of journalists. Here we see an example of a link to Shayndi Raice who, with Randall Smith, wrote...

  • Facebook Likes Burgers

    Updated: 2012-01-29 02:48:22
    I found this data mining error on Silo Breaker somehow amusing: The article does mention McDonalds in comparison to Facebook, but Silo Breaker didn't figure out that the article wasn't about McDonalds per se.

  • Bitly Users Vote with their Clicks on Vatican Scandal

    Updated: 2012-01-27 02:37:21
    By far the biggest story right now according to clicks on the bit.ly links to articles published by Reuters (as shown on d8taplex) is: This story doesn't make it on to Google News front page or even their page of...

  • Data Mining Guest Post: Eric Greenwood

    Updated: 2012-01-25 18:38:23
    Today, Eric Greenwood, expert in data storage, is our guest blogger on Data Mining Research. Thanks for his post and feel free to comment about his input. Data Mining, Refining, and Storage As companies are able to more effectively store and retrieve information via online storage services, the relevance of data mining as the crucial first step [...]

  • Super-hot News

    Updated: 2012-01-24 02:06:45
    A simple list of articles may tell you that the ones at the top are 'more something' (relevant, popular, etc.) than those lower, but not by how much. I just noticed on the d8taplex news page that this article, entitled...

  • Journalists' Tweets Provide Additional Story Context

    Updated: 2012-01-23 04:49:44
    I'm watching the bit.ly counts for Reuters story on the RIM guard change continue to jump up on the d8taplex news page. Because the d8taplex page links to the Twitter accounts of the journalists when they are available, I took...

  • Data Mining Book Review: Decision Management Systems

    Updated: 2012-01-16 16:54:09
    I recently read the last book from James Taylor, Decision Management Systems: A Practical Guide to Using Business Rules and Predictive Analytics. As a data miner, I was interested by the subtitle of the book. Although, the book is really well written, I’m a bit disappointed regarding the content for someone in analytics. I was [...]

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