ASU Research Into Mysteries Of Fatal Diseases To Receive $18 Million Grant – September 4, 2006 The Microscale Life Sciences Center (MLSC) led by Deirdre Meldrum, new dean of Arizona State University’s Ira A. Fulton School of Engineering, has been … Continued
Global Bioinformatics Market Set Reach Nearly $3 Billion by 2010 – May 26, 2005 A recently released report from Business Communications Company (BCC), estimates that the global bioinformatics market is set to grow at an AAGR (average annual growth rate) … Continued
The field of medical informatics is continuously expanding in scope, in depth, and in maturity. New connections to other fields are established as concepts and tools of medical informatics become essential parts of health systems and biomedicine. (Source: International Journal … Continued
Conclusion: Empirical methods may assist in finding radiology report keywords that are most highly predictive of a pneumonia diagnosis. (Source: International Journal of Medical Informatics).
Authors: Cuggia M, Darmoni SJ, Garcelon N, Soualmia L, Bourde A The UMVF project is a federation of medical teaching resources covering 32 medical schools in France. Today, the indexing of these resources is carried out manually by the CISMeF … Continued
Abstract: Purpose: A large share of the information in electronic medical records (EMRs) consists of free-text compositions. From a computational point-of-view, the continuing prevalence of free-text entry is a major hindrance when the goal is to increase automation in EMRs. … Continued
13 Diabetics Implanted with VeriMed RFID Microchip at Boston Diabetes EXPO – March 19, 2007 VeriChip Corporation, a provider of RFID systems for healthcare and patient-related needs, announced today it added 13 diabetic patients to its VeriMed Patient Identification System … Continued
Records For Living, Inc. Releases HealthFrame™ 2.1 — The Family Health Organizer – October 30, 2006 HealthFrame 2.1 is the only commercially available personal health record to support iPod connectivity. This release also introduces support for extensible reporting and web-enabled … Continued
CONCLUSIONS: This method efficiently produces reliable and valid data. The multi-dimensional nature of the data collected provides greater insights into patterns of clinicians’ work and communication than has previously been possible using other methods. PMID: 18951838 [PubMed – as supplied … Continued
Conclusions: It is possible, with modest effort, to build a functioning de-identification system de novo using the MIST framework. The resulting system achieved performance comparable to other high-performing de-identification systems. (Source: International Journal of Medical Informatics).