Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine (SIIM) Launches New Website to Promote the Emerging Field of Imaging Informatics – January 23, 2007 The Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine (formerly SCAR), a professional organization at the nexus of medical imaging … Continued
CONCLUSION: We describe and argue for the relevance of distributed cognition to medical informatics, both for the study of human performance in healthcare and for the design of technologies meant to enhance this performance. PMID: 17556014 [PubMed – as supplied … Continued
Conclusion: Similar medication error rates in handwritten and electronic summaries may be due to the common factor of transcription, either handwritten or typed, known to be associated with medication errors. Clinical information systems evolve and often in the early stages … Continued
Conclusions: This study explains several benefits and limitations in personal exercise monitoring. These can be addressed with crossmedial design, i.e., strategic distribution of functionality and content across modes within the system. Our findings suggest that personal exercise monitoring systems may … Continued
This study examines the 3-month outcomes of two mobile weight loss interventions (Pounds Off Digitally (POD) and mobile POD (mPOD)) where participants were required to own a mobile device for study entry and received weight loss information via podcast. Only … Continued
Conclusions: Real-time attended HPSG through telematic data transmission is feasible and could be an interesting perspective to decrease the failure rate of home sleep studies, even if some technical aspects need to be improved. (Source: International Journal of Medical Informatics).
Authors: Lamb R Can higher quality healthcare practices emerge from the development and use of a loosely integrated set of intranets? This paper examines that question through a series of empirical examples that draw on data from one healthcare organization … Continued
CONCLUSIONS: An approach able to integrate several sources of information is needed to infer gene regulatory networks, as a fully data-driven search is in general prone to overfitting and to unidentifiability problems. The learned networks encode hypotheses on regulatory relationships … Continued
Authors: Rigby M In spite of their name, ‘ubiquitous’ technologies are not yet ubiquitous in the true sense of the word, but rather are ‘novel’, being at the research, pilot, and selective use stages. In future, the proliferation in types … Continued
CONCLUSIONS: Nursing home caregivers and families of nursing home patients are highly interested in telemedicine; however, they are only willing to pay a slightly higher cost of nursing care for this service. The challenge for the future in this industry … Continued