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Yottalook Takes Radiology Web Searching to a New Level – January 5, 2007 A team of medical imaging clinicians and researchers announced today the launch of a free, radiology-centric vertical search engine that rapidly identifies and retrieves relevant images from … Continued

Perceptive Informatics and University of Chicago Collaborate to Bring Breakthrough Imaging Method to Clinical Research – May 29, 2007 Perceptive Informatics today announced the availability of a unique medical imaging capability, called the Double Reference Tissue Method (DRTM)..

University of Texas Medical Branch Electronic Health Network to Pilot GoCode to Automate Coding of Free Text Encounter Notes – March 1, 2007 The University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) Electronic Health Network (EHN) is a leader in e-health and … Continued

Alcatel:Telbios Selects Alcatel Solution To Deliver Innovative Residential Telemedicine Services – July 13, 2006 Alcatel today announced that it has been awarded a contract by Telbios, a leading Italian provider of health-care services, to provide an innovative solution to deliver … Continued

Pharmacogenomics: New Technologies in the Development of Personalized Therapies – July 25, 2006 The term ‘Pharmacogenomics’ is evolved from the words – pharmacology and genomics and therefore a combination of pharmaceuticals and genetics. Pharmacogenomics is a specialized study of how … Continued

Conclusion: Overall, information about medications and previous history was described in most referrals, but was still the information most frequently inquired or searched for. Qualitative assessments revealed that insufficient information put a significant stress on both patients and staff, and … Continued

Highlights: ? We developed a clinical decision support system (CDSS) for celiac disease diagnosing. ? The attributes relating to signs/symptoms/high-risk groups tested were effective. ? Artificial intelligence techniques were tested to recognize celiac disease cases. ? Bayesian classifier algorithm with … Continued

Conclusion: This analysis revealed sociotechnical interactions affecting IIT CDSS that previous studies have not addressed. These issues may influence protocol performance at other institutions. Findings have implications for IIT CDSS user interface design and alerts, and may contribute to nascent … Continued

Conclusion: Through faults in order-set design, limitations of software, and/or because of an inherent tendency to resist directed behavior, clinicians may often ignore questions embedded in order-sets. (Source: International Journal of Medical Informatics).