• Mobile phone set to detect cancer

    Updated: 2010-09-02 18:12:29
    Source: Shweta, newKerala Content: “A hospital in cooperation with a research group here, has conceptualised and launched a health service that uses mobile phones to detect cancer. The Mazumdar Shaw Cancer Centre (MSCC) of the Narayana Hrudayalaya, a well-known hospital along with the SANA (a research group at Harvard/MIT), has launched the ‘mhealth’ that uses mobile [...]

  • Canadian Patient Access and Nightingale Launch Canada’s First Interactive PHR

    Updated: 2010-09-02 09:29:23
    Source: MedicExchange Content: “Canadian Patient Access Inc. (CPA) and Nightingale Informatix Corporation (”Nightingale” or the “Company”) announce the launch of myPatientAccess.ca, Canada’s first interactive patient portal to be fully integrated with an EMR system. Canadian Patient Access Inc. (CPA) and Nightingale Informatix Corporation (”Nightingale” or the “Company”) announce the launch of myPatientAccess.ca, Canada’s first [...]

  • E-health groups seek systems for ‘data harvest’

    Updated: 2010-09-01 09:17:59
    Source: Liz Tay, ITNews Content: “E-health experts have called for information management systems to “harvest” data from electronic health records for medical research. According to Donald Mon of the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA), “secondary use” of data by researchers could improve medicine, patient safety and public health.” Article Liz Tay, ITNews, 1 September 2010

  • In the Future of Healthcare, High Tech Meets High Touch

    Updated: 2010-09-01 07:15:42
    Source: EMR Daily News Content: “Today, people tend to live in two worlds – a digital and a physical universe – but in the near future, these two universes will merge. This concept was one of many explored last week at Sacred Heart Hospital‘s “Inventing the Future” summit. Healthcare, industry and academic leaders discussed the [...]

  • IBM Works on China’s Medical Records

    Updated: 2010-09-01 06:20:15
    Source: Loretta Chao, The Wallstreet Journal Content: “The Chinese government’s plan to spend billions on health-care reform has multinational technology companies like International Business Machines Corp. and Dell Inc. racing to secure a slice of a huge potential market that has long been too fragmented and disorganized to crack. IBM is deploying technology in a group [...]

  • Directed exchange, meaningful consent: Learning the terms

    Updated: 2010-08-31 21:09:40
    Source: Jean DerGurahian, HealthITExchange Content: “Stakeholders can add two more phrases — directed exchange and meaningful consent — to the health information technology lexicon as they continue to understand the recommendations federal policymakers are considering for the meaningful use rollout. The privacy and security tiger team of the Health IT Standards Committee presented its final [...]

  • Data Journalist David McCandless

    Updated: 2010-08-28 04:05:14
    Nice talk by David McCandless on culture and data visualization. An additional interesting take on military spending would be the relationship between the country in question and the statistics of the other countries in the world as military intentions are,...

  • The Recorded Future is Here

    Updated: 2010-08-26 03:50:16
    Recorded Future is a new venture which mines the web for statements that are associated with some time expressions. It then uses this corpus to describe the future in various geographies for various topics. In addition to the application of...

  • The Spectrum of Time Series Forms

    Updated: 2010-08-22 13:22:20
    I've been playing around with time series data recently. Seeing the many forms that these take, I was planning a post describing a bestiary of time series. This, it turns out, is too much work, so here I have collected...

  • What are the Odds?

    Updated: 2010-08-20 05:22:22
    I'm walking down a street in Bangkok and I bump into a colleague from my place of work in the UK. I'm hiking in the hills near Kathmandu and meet someone from my birth town. A friend take a flight...

  • Data Mining Research Interview: Anthony Goldbloom

    Updated: 2010-08-16 15:53:54
    In the series of Data Mining Research Interview, I would like to welcome Anthony Goldbloom, CEO of Kaggle. He kindly accepted to answer the following questions for the readers of Data Mining Research. Data Mining Research: Could you introduce yourself and explain your way to Kaggle? Anthony Goldbloom: I am Kaggle’s founder and CEO. I am an [...]

  • Press Release: Online and Offline become 1 with FinWEB Customer Online Targeting

    Updated: 2010-08-09 16:43:05
    Here is a press release about our new product at FinScore. Customer Online Targeting is a software for personalizing web site interactions based on the fusion of customer and web behavior data. This maximizes the value of company web sites and turns them into a truly customer oriented channel. Lausanne, Switzerland – August 9th, 2010: FinScore has [...]

  • Are Facebook likes Flooding the Internet?

    Updated: 2010-08-09 04:21:32
    I recently enabled the Facebook 'like' feature on this blog, which is hosted by SixApart's Typepad service. Of late, I haven't been blogging at anything like the rate I'd like, but - O happy day - my traffic (according to...

  • Mobile's Not Zen

    Updated: 2010-08-08 23:06:40
    How cool is this? The picture below is from the Twitter Map overlay on Bing Maps. It shows images tweeted from the Rush concert at White Water Amphitheater last night. Some of the tweets from the concert: "Solo still going",...

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