• HL7 Version 2.5.1 Implementation Guide for Electronic Laboratory Reporting

    Updated: 2010-03-10 09:55:12
    “Health Level Seven® International (HL7®), the global authority for interoperability and standards in healthcare information technology, recently announced that it has published the Version 2.5.1 Implementation Guide for Electronic Laboratory Reporting to Public Health (as also specified in HITSP’s Interoperability Specification IS01). The implementation guide is directly related to the initial set of standards and certification [...]

  • Patients’ medical records go online without consent

    Updated: 2010-03-10 09:04:29
    “Those who do not wish to have their details on the £11 billion computer system are supposed to be able to opt out by informing health authorities. But doctors have accused the Government of rushing the project through, meaning that patients have had their details uploaded to the database before they have had a chance to [...]

  • Military Health System develops EHR for White House

    Updated: 2010-03-10 07:28:11
    “The Military Health System has set up a version of its AHLTA electronic health record system for use in the White House. MHS chief information officer Charles Campbell talked about the initiative at the recent Health Information and Management Systems Society’s annual conference in Atlanta.” Article Paul McCloskey, Healthcare IT News, 9 March 2010

  • How to reconcile Kaiser’s statements about who can access patient data

    Updated: 2010-03-09 22:12:35
    “Two reports of how Kaiser Permanente approaches security left this blogger scratching her head last week as the reports might seem to contradict each other. And because the VA Watchdog had the same questions I have, I decided to follow-up. On February 28, and as reported by Health Data Management, Eric Liederman, M.D, director of [...]

  • Stimulus To Push Electronic Health Records Could Widen ‘Digital Divide’

    Updated: 2010-03-09 22:07:09
    “A year after Congress agreed to spend billions of dollars to encourage a national switch to electronic health records, many doctors and hospitals have grown skeptical of the pace and details of the plan. Medical societies, both large and small, say that federal officials are pushing doctors to phase out paper charts too quickly. Some rural [...]

  • More to HIMSS than EHRs: Four Technologies for Patients and Providers

    Updated: 2010-03-09 21:47:40
    “Amidst all the buzz about clinical data sharing and the accompanying alphabet soup of acronyms (EHRs, EMRs, PHRs, RHIOs and HIEs, not to mention ARRA and HITECH), it’s easy to forget that the annual HIMSS conference is also a showcase for technology of the hardware variety—physical products and gadgets you can see, feel, and, in [...]

  • Electronic Health Records Use by Hospitals and Doctors

    Updated: 2010-03-09 21:25:53
    “In the abstract, government officials love EHRs , but in the concrete world of practice, few hospitals and doctors use them, and even when they do, hospital and doctor EHRs rarely speak to one another. Here is David Blumenthal, MD, National Coordinator of Health Information, speaking in the abstract He is responsible for implementing the government’s [...]

  • Electronic medical records need to better focus on patients

    Updated: 2010-03-09 13:09:11
    “The biggest problem with today’s push for electronic medical records is an archaic user interface. Physician Alexander Friedman, writing a scathing essay in The Wall Street Journal, agrees.” Article KevinMD.com, 9 March 2010

  • No boundaries plan needs shared records

    Updated: 2010-03-09 13:02:16
    “The abolition of GP practice boundaries will increase the importance of shared medical records, according to the Department of Health. The DH has launched a consultation on its plans to scrap GP practice boundaries which it argues will meet demand from a “significant minority” of patients to move to a different practice.” Article Fiona Barr, e-Health Insider Primary [...]

  • Use of electronic information systems in nursing management

    Updated: 2010-03-09 10:51:20
    Purpose The purpose of this study is to describe nurse managers’ perceptions of the use of electronic information systems in their daily work. Several kinds of software are used for administrative and information management purposes in health care organizations, but the issue has been studied less from nurse managers’ perspective. Methods The material for this qualitative study was [...]

  • Usability testing of mobile ICT for clinical settings: Methodological and practical challenges

    Updated: 2010-03-09 10:40:30
    Background While much is known about how to do usability testing of stationary Electronic Patient Record (EPR) systems, less is known about how to do usability testing of mobile ICT systems intended for use in clinical settings. Aim Our aim is to provide a set of empirically based recommendations for usability testing of mobile ICT for clinical work. Method We [...]

  • CCHIT has jump on EHR certification competition

    Updated: 2010-03-09 08:09:21
    “One of many potential beneficiaries of last week’s release of a proposed federal rule outlining the process by which HHS will authorize organizations to test and certify electronic health-record systems is the not-for-profit organization formed in 2004 to do those very tasks. The Certification Commission for Health Information Technology has a first-mover advantage under the new [...]

  • ‘Better IT means better patient safety’

    Updated: 2010-03-09 07:42:19
    “If all hospital specialists used the same electronic health records system it would lead to huge savings for the health services, according to a consultant rheumatologist. Electronic medical record systems allow doctors to directly access vital health information on patients such as current medications and recent test results regardless of the site where a patient is [...]

  • Survey: Many Non-EHR Users Plan To Purchase Systems Within 2 Years

    Updated: 2010-03-08 22:06:59
    “Fifty-eight percent of physicians who currently do not use electronic health records say they plan to introduce new systems in the next two years, according to a survey released Tuesday at the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society’s 2010 conference, HealthLeaders Media reports. For the study, Accenture’s Innovation Center for Health and Institute for Health & [...]

  • Seeing a Web of Data

    Updated: 2010-03-04 15:28:06
    TEDi master Flake gives a dynamic overview of the Live Labs Pivot demo.

  • Sebastian Wain: Take, for instance, the way Google's engine learns which words are synonyms. "We discovered a nifty thing very early on," Singhal says. "People change words in their queries. So someone would say, 'pictures of dogs,' and then they'd say, 'pictures of puppies.' So that told us that maybe 'dogs' and 'puppies' were interchangeable. We also learned that when you boil water, it's hot water. We were relearning semantics from humans, and that was a great advance."Fwd: Not your father's PageRank - http://kottke.org/10/02/not-your-fathers-pagerank (via http://ff.im/gHCI7)

    Updated: 2010-02-28 16:43:16

  • Small Book Review: Analytics at Work

    Updated: 2010-02-26 20:43:21
    Analytics at Work is the new book of Thomas Davenport, Jeanne Harris and Robert Morison. Davenport and Harris already published Competing on Analytics in 2007. Both books are quite different in their targeted audience. I will not discuss the first book here, but I had an interview with Jeanne Harris that will soon appear on [...]

  • Web Mining: Short/Long Term User Profile

    Updated: 2010-02-21 18:04:25
    It’s now nearly one year that I manage a project about targeted advertising for a Telco company in Switzerland. The particularity of our approach is the fusion of offline (CRM) and online (web) customer profiles. We build these extended customer profiles (ECP) on a shifting time window. These ECP are then mined to predict some [...]

  • Bing Maps Updates Hyperlocal Application

    Updated: 2010-02-18 05:52:28
    Today we pushed out a modest update to our hyperlocal application Local Lens. Users won't see a huge difference, but behind the scenes we have improved our text mining systems which recognize and map entity names (e.g. restaurants, museums, coffee...

  • Apps are great, but Ecosystems are better

    Updated: 2010-02-15 05:01:21
    By now, everyone is pretty much on the same page with apps on mobile devices. The popularity of these programs, which range from simple widgets to full applications, is not surprising given a) the model has been in existence for...

  • Bing Maps Continues To Innovate

    Updated: 2010-02-12 04:56:58
    Take a moment to check out this video which shows some of the content that Blaise presented at TED today. There are two key features: integration and matching of photographs to our human scale imagery, and the integration of the...

  • Making disastrous downtime a thing of the past: a guide to business continuity

    Updated: 2010-02-11 10:04:00
    Tough economic challenges mean that businesses cannot afford any downtime, particularly to their business critical applications and data.

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