eNotes Systems’ Executives to Attend American Telemedicine Association (ATA) West Program – July 24, 2006 eNotes Systems, Inc. announced today that executives from the company will be attending the American Telemedicine Association’s “ATA West” program in Marina del Rey, CA, … Continued
Conclusion: Introduction of an electronic nursing documentation system did not reduce the proportion of time nursing staff spent on documentation. This may in part have been a result of the practice of documenting some information items on paper and others … Continued
Conclusions: The EMR was associated with the declining patterns of length of stay, infection rate, and mortality rate. It had no positive effect on patient costs. (Source: International Journal of Medical Informatics).
Highlights: ? Knowledge and attitude were not predictive of perceived usefulness or perceived ease of use among health workers in Nigeria. ? Endemic barriers to technology are an important addition to the TAM in low-resource settings. ? End-user preference should … Continued
Discussion: Care quality in RWP settings can be improved with HIE tools facilitating linkage, retention and coordination of care. When fully leveraged, HIE interventions have the potential to improve coordination of care and thereby enhance patient health outcomes. (Source: International … Continued
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