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Northwestern University Signs With Compass Knowledge Group Supporting New Online Master’s Degree in Medical Informatics – March 12, 2007 Distance learning services provider Compass Knowledge Group has contracted with Northwestern University School of Continuing Studies to provide marketing, student services … Continued

CompuMed, Inc. Announces New Contract with Wexford Health Sources to Provide Remote ECG Screening – October 17, 2006 CompuMed, Inc. today announced three agreements that extend its dominance as the leading provider of electrocardiogram (ECG) remote interpretation systems and services … Continued

American Medical Informatics Association Leaders Shaping the Future of Biomedical and Health Informatics – May 24, 2007 The American Medical Informatics Association is featured in an important new episode of Healthy Body, Healthy Mind exploring the link between health information … Continued

CompuMed, Inc. Announces Initiation of Coverage by Cohen Independent Research Group – January 23, 2007 CompuMed, Inc. today announced that Cohen Independent Research Group, a leading Wall Street research firm, has initiated coverage. The report concludes, “CompuMed’s unique business model … Continued

Eons Selects Healthline to Provide “Medically Guided” Health Search and Navigation for New Media Portal – December 5, 2006 Healthline Networks, the leading provider of intelligent health information services, today announced that it has been selected by Eons™, the 50-plus … Continued

Frost & Sullivan Lauds Cisco Healthcare Initiatives With Its Brand Development Strategy Leadership Award – April 9, 2007 Frost & Sullivan selected Cisco as the recipient of the 2007 Frost & Sullivan Brand Development Strategy Leadership Award for its efforts … Continued

VisualMED offers Personal Electronic Medical Record for the Internet – January 24, 2007 VisualMED Clinical Solutions Corp. has reached a preliminary agreement to provide a series of medical information modules to support a subscriber-accessible Electronic Medical Record (EMR) that will … Continued

In the preface of the book the editor starts with expressing the hope that this book is not yet another textbook on biomedical image processing. Instead the authors want to provide a ‘suitable’ textbook on image processing (with suitable defined … Continued

Conclusions: This study successfully combined “think-aloud” protocol analysis with “near-live” clinical simulations in a usability evaluation of a new primary care CDS tool. Each phase of the study provided complementary observations on problems with the new onscreen tool and was … Continued

Conclusions: Further development of the Chinese EHR Standard should focus on supporting privacy and security mechanism, diverse data types, more generic and extensible lower level data structures, and relational attributes for data elements. (Source: International Journal of Medical Informatics).