http://www.biohealthmatics.com/news/ This is the Syndication News Feed for Biohealthmatics.com - a biomedical informatics career portal for bioinformatics and health informatics jobs as well as industry news and events. 10:49:36 AM October 2008 Index Highlights: • The Index showed modest growth to rebound from a four month decline. Online job availability in the UK is now one percent higher than year-earlier levels • Demand surged in the healthcare and education sectors. Moderate increases were also seen in finance and engineering • By contrast, hiring fell sharply in the architecture, construction and HR sectors • Among occupational groups, demand for craft and related workers jumped while offerings for service worke /News/000000005824.aspx RealWire Fri, 21 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT Thursday 15th May, 2008 - BMJ Learning, part of the BMJ Group, announced today that it has formed a partnership with the College of Emergency Medicine in the UK, to provide Continuous Professional Development (CPD) courses for Fellows and Associate Fellows of the College. The new learning resources are provided in a series of modules—those available immediately include courses on self-harm and the Medical Capacity Act, the management of acute coronary syndromes, and syncope. Future modules w /News/000000005823.aspx BMJ Group Thu, 15 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT RESTON, VA--(Marketwire - February 20, 2008) - Language and Computing, Inc., providing the most advanced Natural Language Processing (NLP) and knowledge management solutions to the healthcare industry, announced today that Ochsner Health System has selected Language and Computing's NLP technology product suite, TeSSI® for Medicare Risk Adjustment reporting. Ochsner Health System employs 600 physicians and has 33 facilities located throughout southeast Louisiana. Language and Computing's solu /News/000000005822.aspx Language and Computing, Inc and Ochsner Health System Tue, 11 Mar 2008 00:00:00 GMT Reston, Virginia – March 11, 2008 – Language and Computing, Inc. (L&C), providing the most advanced Natural Language Processing (NLP) and knowledge management solutions to the healthcare industry, today announced that RevolutionHealth.com has chosen L&C’s technology product suite, TeSSI®, for its Medicine Chest™. Revolution Health creates products and services that empower people by putting them at the center of the healthcare system. The cornerstone of the company is RevolutionHealth.com, w /News/000000005821.aspx Language and Computing, Inc and Revolution Health.com Tue, 11 Mar 2008 00:00:00 GMT The three leaders in the race for the US presidency; Hilary Clinton, Barack Obama and John McCain, have all cited technology in their campaigns for healthcare reform. However, while IT may feature in the next president's healthcare agenda, doubt remains as to whether any of the candidates will deliver fully on their proposals. /News/000000005820.aspx Computer Business Review Wed, 13 Feb 2008 00:00:00 GMT IBM researchers and a team of doctors are building a database of digital images that they hope will enable oncologists to diagnose and treat cancer patients faster and with more success. /News/000000005819.aspx ComputerWorld Tue, 29 Jan 2008 00:00:00 GMT The growth of wireless communication, and a new generation of doctors who have grown up with the technology, have led to more physicians using text messaging as a primary source of communication. /News/000000005818.aspx AMNews Mon, 28 Jan 2008 00:00:00 GMT A new report by Connecting for Health, a public-private collaborative operated by the Markle Foundation, recommends widespread adoption of several common practices for validating identities of online consumers, which in turn would help stimulate the growth of personal health records. /News/000000005817.aspx Healthcare IT News Fri, 25 Jan 2008 00:00:00 GMT There has been talk about Google lunching a health website with a is a login page for Google Health spotted on the Internet, which signifies Google’s entry into the online health records space. /News/000000005816.aspx TechCrunch Thu, 24 Jan 2008 00:00:00 GMT According to a very small, very preliminary study, playing certain video games on the Nintendo Wii helps surgical residents to hone their fine motor skills and improve their performance on a serious surgery simulator. /News/000000005815.aspx Wall Street Journal Wed, 23 Jan 2008 00:00:00 GMT Governor Timothy M. Kaine today announced the award of two health information technology grants to projects designed to expand the use of electronic health records in Virginia: Centra Health in Lynchburg and the Northern Virginia Regional Health Information Organization (NOVARHIO) in Fairfax County. /News/000000005814.aspx Government Technology Tue, 22 Jan 2008 00:00:00 GMT TeleVox Software recently unveiled the latest offering in its suite of healthcare communication solutions. The T.LINK online patient portal enables convenient two-way communication between practices and their patients regarding appointment notifications, billing, treatment and more. /News/000000005813.aspx Web Services Journal Fri, 18 Jan 2008 00:00:00 GMT Health and Social Services Minister Brad Cathers today announced that all Yukon communities have improved health care services with the expansion of the Yukon Telehealth Network. Telehealth links patients from remote communities with clinicians at a distance through secure networks. /News/000000005812.aspx Canada NewsWire Fri, 18 Jan 2008 00:00:00 GMT The Australian Government should bypass the National E-Health Transition Authority and fund a key health stakeholder group to develop an "agreed vision and plan for e-health" according to the Health Informatics Society of Australia. /News/000000005811.aspx Australian IT Fri, 18 Jan 2008 00:00:00 GMT Healthcare Software Application Helps Hospitals Get Registration Right the First Time CINCINNATI, Ohio -- January 16, 2008 - Cincom Systems and Provider Advantage have unveiled their Revenue360™ Insurance Code Solution, a healthcare software application which increases patient registration accuracy and boosts revenue, cash flow and operating margins Registration - point of entry … point of pain One major process that stymies patients and healthcare providers starts at the /News/000000005810.aspx Cincom Thu, 17 Jan 2008 00:00:00 GMT One of the latest medical innovations to be showcased in Las Vegas this week at the world's largest technology expo includes a computer mouse which monitors your blood pressure, medicine bottle caps that track your use and report your progress back to your physician and GPS-enabled sneakers with emergency response service. /News/000000005809.aspx The Manchester Times Wed, 16 Jan 2008 00:00:00 GMT Australian researchers believe online social networking could be used to improve the nation's health. Researchers at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) have begun a project that will combine social networking techniques with search engine technology specifically tailored to Australians. /News/000000005808.aspx TheAge.com.au Wed, 16 Jan 2008 00:00:00 GMT EU countries need to look to IT systems to deliver "tools for health authorities" and "personalised health systems for patients", according to a European Commission report. /News/000000005807.aspx ZDNet.co.uk Thu, 10 Jan 2008 00:00:00 GMT Genizon BioSciences has landed $31 million to fund its personalized medicine and genomics business. The Canadian biotech company finds genes linked with diseases by comparing individuals' entire genomes, mining its data from the DNA of the 6 million descendants of the original 2,600 founders of Quebec. /News/000000005806.aspx Wired News Tue, 08 Jan 2008 00:00:00 GMT Slow diffusion of patient-managed electronic health information record technologies, or PHRs, has limited the development of an interoperable health information infrastructure that will greatly improve health-care quality and cost and will save lives. For this reason, increasing PHR diffusion has been called a top priority by the Department of Health and Human Services, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. /News/000000005805.aspx News-Medical.Net Mon, 07 Jan 2008 00:00:00 GMT An experimental information technology (IT) intervention funded by a $1.2 million, 3-year grant from the federal Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality is looking to reduce medication errors, which are one of the most serious problems occurring in doctor's offices and out-patient clinics, and older persons with chronic conditions are the most vulnerable. The study will begin this spring in eight ambulatory medical offices throughout Western New York. /News/000000005804.aspx News-Medical.Net Mon, 07 Jan 2008 00:00:00 GMT Royal Philips Electronics has agreed to acquire US-based clinical IT firm Visicu for around €290m, to expand its patient monitoring business. Visicu provides clinical IT systems for use in acute hospitals, such as the eICU software that enables 24/7 patient monitoring in intensive care units (ICUs). /News/000000005803.aspx E-Health Europe Mon, 07 Jan 2008 00:00:00 GMT The Association of Canadian Academic Healthcare Organizations (ACAHO) has provided a powerful argument that Canada is moving into a biotechnology revolution that could turn Canada's health care trade deficit of approximately $8 billion into a trade surplus. It has been estimated the size of the global marketplace for innovative health products and services was approximately $1 trillion in 2003. If Canada were to increase its current market share from three per cent to four per cent, it would att /News/000000005802.aspx Ottawa Citizen Mon, 07 Jan 2008 00:00:00 GMT Great article on how to go about negotiating a contract for the electronic medical records system for your practice. Key note is not to feel pressured before signing that contract as you may not like what you end up with. /News/000000005801.aspx AMNews Mon, 07 Jan 2008 00:00:00 GMT The library was prepared on the base of Otava and Life Chemicals Stock Collections (about 500,000 compounds total) using receptor-based virtual screening. Design of the focused libraries consists in Lipinsky/Veber rules filtering and flexible docking in a protein target of certain enzyme family. Further computational analysis for the presence of critical receptor-ligand hydrogen bond(s) and docking score refinement makes our focused libraries good starting point for drug discovery purposes /News/000000005800.aspx Otava Tue, 20 Nov 2007 00:00:00 GMT ISoft, a cash-strapped software provider for Britain's National Health Service, is being sued in New Zealand over a business it acquired three years ago. /News/000000005799.aspx New Zealand Herald, New Zealand Thu, 12 Apr 2007 00:00:00 GMT Saturday marks the three-year anniversary of the deadline for small health plans to start providing individuals with a privacy rights notice, which is significant because health plans must remind individuals about the availability of the notice every three years. /News/000000005798.aspx BenefitsNext Thu, 12 Apr 2007 00:00:00 GMT More than 60 percent of hospitals in the U.S. have made significant enough investments in information technology to begin seeing reductions in operating costs, according to PricewaterhouseCoopers (www.pwc.com/healthcare) which has published a groundbreaking report on the relationship between health IT investment and hospital operating performance. /News/000000005797.aspx DOTmed.com, US Thu, 12 Apr 2007 00:00:00 GMT Department of Health Secretary Patricia Hewitt today announced a package of measures aimed to help patients in the most disadvantaged communities use web-delivered e-Government services to make choices about their healthcare and empower them to shape services around their needs and experience. /News/000000005796.aspx PublicTechnology.net, UK Thu, 12 Apr 2007 00:00:00 GMT UnitedHealth Group Inc., the largest U.S. health insurance company, announced yesterday that it has unveiled a Web site that allows doctors' offices to get claims approval within seconds rather than the weeks it sometimes takes to settle claims. /News/000000005795.aspx White Plains Journal News, US Thu, 12 Apr 2007 00:00:00 GMT Despite a distance of more than 1,000 miles, staff at St Jude Children's Research Hospital in Tennessee and St Joseph's Children's Hospital in New Jersey were able to simultaneously review diagnostic images from patients at the joint launch of the hospitals' new telemedicine equipment, making them the first two medical institutions in the US to employ this form of high-definition technology. /News/000000005794.aspx Computer Business Review, UK Wed, 04 Apr 2007 00:00:00 GMT Sizable gaps exist between the potential benefits of electronic-prescribing tools and physicians' actual use of commercial e-prescribing products, and this is at least partly due to products lacking advanced features or physicians not using them because of external implementation hurdles or a perception that these features didn't have value, according to a report posted today on the Health Affairs Web site. /News/000000005793.aspx ModernHealthcare.com, US Wed, 04 Apr 2007 00:00:00 GMT As dental technology advances, many new options are available to people who want a great-looking, healthy smile. But which procedures do you need? How do you choose the right dentist to perform them? And which website provides the most helpful, up-to-date, and unbiased information on dentistry? /News/000000005792.aspx Genetic Engineering News (press release), NY Wed, 04 Apr 2007 00:00:00 GMT Frost & Sullivan, a global leader in growth consulting, presents this award every year to the company that most distinguishes itself by developing breakthrough products with highly sophisticated features and capabilities. The award further recognizes the recipient's successful creation and integration of revolutionary new technology into its existing suite of products. /News/000000005791.aspx Language and Computing Tue, 27 Mar 2007 00:00:00 GMT The natural-language analysing software FreePharma® is capable of analysing the pharmacological information in natural language and transforming it into structured text. The technology accepts information from a range of sources, including voice recognition, e-mail, a keyboard, referral letters, electronic or document-based information. It actually analyses the pharmacological input and then structures the prescriptions into the required format, either in real time or at a later stage in time. T /News/000000005790.aspx International Hospital Equipment & Solutions, October 2002 Sat, 24 Mar 2007 00:00:00 GMT Introduction to Natural Language Processing and Understanding: Enter Clinical Data the way you want, Capture Clinical Data the way you need. Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Natural Language Understanding (NLU) are emerging technologies for extracting data from free text documents. CARINg member Karen Doyle with Dr. James Flanagan and David Hellman from Language and Computing provided a session to explain some of the basics of these technologies. They also demonstrated use cases for using /News/000000005789.aspx Dr. James Flanagan Sat, 24 Mar 2007 00:00:00 GMT Language and Computing (L&C) NV announces that its FreePharma® advanced medication extraction tool has been selected for use by Marshfield Clinic, Marshfield, Wisconsin. FreePharma® will be used in an extensive data-mining project to support Marshfield Clinic Research Foundation (MCRF), a division of Marshfield Clinic. MCRF is the largest private not-for-profit medical research foundation in Wisconsin and one of the largest in the nation. L&C’s FreePharma was selected based on a thorough su /News/000000005788.aspx Language and Computing Sat, 24 Mar 2007 00:00:00 GMT Reston, VA, February 12, 2007: Language and Computing, Inc. (L&C), a recognized leader of Natural Language Processing (NLP) solutions in the healthcare industry, has entered into an agreement with Kaiser Permanente’s Southern California Region to launch their co-development of a computer assisted coding (CAC) solution for the Evaluation and Management (“E&M”) coding process at the national Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society’s (HIMSS) Annual Conference & Exhibition in New Orlea /News/000000005787.aspx Freepressrelease Sat, 24 Mar 2007 00:00:00 GMT Improving health care for Hoosiers is one of the most important issues facing Indiana legislators. We constantly consider how to keep citizens safer and healthier while deliberating the costs, pondering insurance plans and struggling with adequate Medicaid funding. /News/000000005786.aspx Indianapolis Star, US Thu, 22 Mar 2007 00:00:00 GMT Language and Computing: Ontology Assisted Solutions LinkCode is an application that accurately extracts E&M codes from physician notes using the CMS rules. LinkCode can process multiple documents in seconds, saving time and resources, while improving accuracy with full audit trails. LinkCode reduces the volume of routine work for outpatient coders, leaving experienced coders more time for complex cases and other chart abstractions. /News/000000005785.aspx Language and Computing: Ontology Assisted Solutions Tue, 20 Mar 2007 00:00:00 GMT In a rare instance of public dissent, an American Health Information Community AHIC) workgroup has split over whether to recommend that product certification be available for personal health record software. /News/000000005784.aspx Government Health IT, US Thu, 15 Mar 2007 00:00:00 GMT The California Regional Health Information Organization (CalRHIO) has selected the team of Medicity and Perot Systems to build a statewide health information exchange service. /News/000000005783.aspx Government Health IT, US Thu, 15 Mar 2007 00:00:00 GMT Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger used a visit to wireless giant Qualcomm on Wednesday to tout an information technology system he said he wants to see used in hospitals, doctors' offices and pharmacies across the state. /News/000000005782.aspx North County Times, US Thu, 15 Mar 2007 00:00:00 GMT London’s Chelsea and Westminster (C&W) hospital is aiming to show patient X-rays at the bedside after an electronic picture archiving and communications (Pacs) system goes live this week. /News/000000005781.aspx IT Week, UK Thu, 15 Mar 2007 00:00:00 GMT Motorola completes enterprise mobility implementation at hospital for delivery of world-class patient care and service /News/000000005780.aspx Assodigitale, Italy Mon, 12 Mar 2007 00:00:00 GMT The days of bulky patient files are numbered. And in the not-too-distant future, patients may be able to access their medical records by logging onto their home computer. /News/000000005779.aspx Journal and Courier, US Mon, 12 Mar 2007 00:00:00 GMT A host of new technology products and services may help reduce medical costs for individuals, employers and health insurance companies by making it easier for people to remain independent in their homes longer, reducing the need for hospital care. /News/000000005778.aspx Sun-Sentinel.com, US Mon, 12 Mar 2007 00:00:00 GMT With $8.5 million in federal support, leading researchers at three universities, including Johns Hopkins, are creating an ambitious digital network that will allow cardiovascular researchers worldwide to easily exchange data and expertise on heart-related illnesses. /News/000000005777.aspx GRIDtoday, US Mon, 12 Mar 2007 00:00:00 GMT Say good-bye to those plain, thick manila folders used to keep medical records. Dr. Dan Mingle, a family physician who heads the technology department at MaineGeneral Medical Center, is leading the central Maine health-care provider's changeover from written to electronic medical records. /News/000000005776.aspx Central Maine Morning Sentinel, US Fri, 09 Mar 2007 00:00:00 GMT The In-Stat report found that the main drivers of growth in mobile data usage have shifted from financial services, insurance, and real-estate applications to health-care and government apps /News/000000005775.aspx iT News, Australia Fri, 09 Mar 2007 00:00:00 GMT Hospitals, businesses and government departments must take greater steps to protect personal client and patient information in a world where identify theft and fraud run rampant, Ontario's privacy commissioner said Thursday. /News/000000005774.aspx CBC News, Canada Fri, 09 Mar 2007 00:00:00 GMT Perhaps the two most important technologies of the 21st century will be information technology and biotechnology. Certainly they have become the most rapidly expanding domains of our era. The advancements in devices such as microarray biochips, medical imaging, and mass spectrometers have created a wealth of biological data to be analyzed. The result is that, increasingly, biological problems now require large scale computing. In a sense, life science has become a sub-domain of information scien /News/000000005773.aspx HPCwire, US Fri, 09 Mar 2007 00:00:00 GMT Local healthcare providers last night got a glimpse of what a paperless practice might look like and how it could increase the quality of their patient care. /News/000000005772.aspx The Journal News.com, US Fri, 09 Mar 2007 00:00:00 GMT A first-in-province local health care solution could be the key to tackling longer wait times in Eastern Ontario. Wilmer Matthews, chairman of Eastern Ontario's Champlain health network, said 18 of the region's 20 hospitals are now able to share patient records electronically. All 20 of the region's hospitals are due to be linked together by the fall. /News/000000005771.aspx Canoe.ca, Canada Thu, 08 Mar 2007 00:00:00 GMT Ontario Privacy Commissioner urges officials to encrypt personal health data /News/000000005770.aspx Globe and Mail, Canada Thu, 08 Mar 2007 00:00:00 GMT The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston is using Semantic Web technology to boost its bio-surveillance effort. /News/000000005769.aspx FCW.com, US Thu, 08 Mar 2007 00:00:00 GMT Low cost products could facilitate faster spread of telemedicine in developing countries and India poised for a "big growth" in the sector, Michael Nerlich, President, International Society for Telemedicine and eHealth said today. Addressing reporters here through teleconference from Regemburgh University in Germany, he said low cost products could promote telemedicine in a big way. /News/000000005768.aspx Space Daily, US Wed, 07 Mar 2007 00:00:00 GMT The Health and Human Services Department has received mixed reviews for its decision to insist that the next iteration of the Nationwide Health Information Network (NHIN) allow patients to control who sees their electronic health records on the network. /News/000000005767.aspx Government Health IT, US Wed, 07 Mar 2007 00:00:00 GMT MPs have expressed their concerns over the potential abuse of a one Singaporean, one Electronic Medical Record (EMR) system. /News/000000005766.aspx Channel News Asia, Singapore Wed, 07 Mar 2007 00:00:00 GMT When searching for health advice online, consumers often reject websites with high quality medical information in favour of those with a human touch, according to new research funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC). /News/000000005765.aspx News-Medical.net, Australia Wed, 07 Mar 2007 00:00:00 GMT It's been more than 10 years since the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act became law, but many healthcare practitioners across the country are still unsure of what the law requires and how its provisions interact with other state and federal privacy laws, according to participants in a federally funded healthcare privacy research project who are meeting in Bethesda, Md., this week. /News/000000005764.aspx ModernHealthcare.com, US Wed, 07 Mar 2007 00:00:00 GMT Despite more than five years of work, the Defense and the Veterans Affairs departments still have problems sharing electronic health records (EHRs), according to Cynthia Bascetta, director for health care at the Government Accountability Office, testifying March 5 to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. /News/000000005763.aspx Government Health IT, US Wed, 07 Mar 2007 00:00:00 GMT Australian Federal Health Minister Tony Abbott has warned e-health vendors and systems designers eyeing off federal coffers that their products must deliver tangible economic benefits over technological improvements if they expect to get government funding for e-Health. /News/000000005762.aspx CIO Australia, Australia Wed, 07 Mar 2007 00:00:00 GMT With $8.5 million in federal support, leading researchers at three universities, including Johns Hopkins, are creating an ambitious digital network that will allow cardiovascular researchers worldwide to easily exchange data and expertise on heart-related illnesses. /News/000000005761.aspx News-Medical.net, Australia Wed, 07 Mar 2007 00:00:00 GMT In what it hopes will become the gold standard for consumer information initiatives in other states, a coalition of California health groups is launching what it calls the most comprehensive online hospital comparison tool in the nation. /News/000000005760.aspx MarketWatch Tue, 06 Mar 2007 00:00:00 GMT "Physician, plug in thyself," is the lede of Rick Merritt's interesting article in today's EETimes about the Health Information and Management Systems Society meeting in New Orleans last week. /News/000000005759.aspx San Francisco Chronicle, US Tue, 06 Mar 2007 00:00:00 GMT A wireless network that allows children suffering from cancer to communicate and access entertainment online has been rolled out in Our Lady’s Children’s Hospital in Crumlin. /News/000000005758.aspx Siliconrepublic.com, Ireland Tue, 06 Mar 2007 00:00:00 GMT The last thing you would think to do with your PDA is dunk it in a pail of disinfectant. But a Newton start-up, Emano Tec Inc., has designed a wafer-thin, wireless hand-held computer that is designed to be washed thousands of times. /News/000000005757.aspx Boston Globe, US Mon, 05 Mar 2007 00:00:00 GMT A development that a decade ago seemed futuristic to doctors, hospitals, labs, clinics and insurers is today becoming a necessary medical tool to help streamline operations, reduce errors and improve patients’ experiences. /News/000000005756.aspx Colorado Springs Gazette, US Mon, 05 Mar 2007 00:00:00 GMT Few local hospitals have given up paper charts and ballpoint pens for hand-held computers, mirroring a national trend that shows building a computerized database of patients' medical records is a marathon rather than a sprint /News/000000005755.aspx Washington Times, US Mon, 05 Mar 2007 00:00:00 GMT ER-Link is the first operational EMS telemedicine system in the country and it's right here in Tucson. /News/000000005754.aspx KVOA.com, US Fri, 02 Mar 2007 00:00:00 GMT Sydney Children's Hospital at Westmead has completed a trial of integrated wireless networking technologies to streamline manual processes and improve patient care. /News/000000005753.aspx Webwereld, Netherlands Fri, 02 Mar 2007 00:00:00 GMT The Defense Department and Microsoft Corp. will jointly develop a medical data warehouse prototype and the analytical tools needed to access health data and records for the Armed Forces Health Longitudinal Technology Application (AHLTA) clinical data repository. /News/000000005752.aspx GCN.com, US Fri, 02 Mar 2007 00:00:00 GMT The Health and Human Services Department will ask for proposals next month for a new version of a health care “network of networks” capable of giving consumers unprecedented control over the dissemination of their personal health care information. /News/000000005751.aspx Government Health IT, US Fri, 02 Mar 2007 00:00:00 GMT Visualize the idea of bringing together all of your favorite electronic comforts of home right to your bedside – TV, movies on demand, video games and more. According to Cerner the hospital room of the future is not that far off. /News/000000005750.aspx Wireless Healthcare, UK Fri, 02 Mar 2007 00:00:00 GMT Doctors would get $3 for every patient signed up to use an electronic health record under terms of a new House bill introduced today. /News/000000005749.aspx PC World Fri, 02 Mar 2007 00:00:00 GMT The Defense Department has signed an agreement with Microsoft under which the software vendor will help develop tools and methods for analyzing the department's 9.1 million electronic patient records to find better ways to manage the health of DOD beneficiaries. /News/000000005748.aspx Government Health IT, US Fri, 02 Mar 2007 00:00:00 GMT Hospital doctors and GPs within Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust are taking advantage of IT software that will enable them to work better together. /News/000000005747.aspx PublicTechnology.net, UK Fri, 02 Mar 2007 00:00:00 GMT The Army Telemedicine and Advanced Technology Research Center has tapped Sonitor Technologies for a pilot project to track and monitor medical equipment at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences by using ultrasound technology similar to what bats use to navigate. /News/000000005746.aspx Government Health IT Thu, 01 Mar 2007 00:00:00 GMT A local electronic medical records program will receive a Virginia state grant to help bring more health-care providers on board, Gov. Tim Kaine announced Wednesday. /News/000000005745.aspx TriCities.com Thu, 01 Mar 2007 00:00:00 GMT Patients and Caregivers Access, Manage and Share Healthcare Information; Healthcare Providers Receive Up-to-date Clinical Information, Avoiding Risk and Treatment Delays /News/000000005744.aspx HULIQ Thu, 01 Mar 2007 00:00:00 GMT At a trade show, Cerner Corp. unveils what it sees as the look of the future in health care. /News/000000005743.aspx Kansas City Star Thu, 01 Mar 2007 00:00:00 GMT Electronic devices with bar-coding technology could cut medics' workloads and help save £2 billion. /News/000000005742.aspx SupplyManagement.com, UK Thu, 01 Mar 2007 00:00:00 GMT After successful trials at one of the North West’s best performing hospitals, an Intel and Motion Computing designed electronic clipboard has been unveiled. /News/000000005741.aspx Information World Review, UK Thu, 01 Mar 2007 00:00:00 GMT Winchester and Eastleigh Healthcare NHS Trust (WEHCT) and North and Mid Hampshire Health Informatics Service (NHHIS) have implemented Touchpaper’s IT Business Management (ITBM) solution to support the go live of the Government’s National Care Record Service (NCRS) in Winchester. /News/000000005740.aspx PublicTechnology.net, UK Thu, 01 Mar 2007 00:00:00 GMT While 51% of patients are willing to pay for e-health record services if reasonably priced, only 11% of the doctors surveyed say they use electronic patient records. /News/000000005739.aspx InformationWeek Wed, 28 Feb 2007 00:00:00 GMT Sun Debuts B2B-Enabled Electronic Master Patient Index and PACS OEM Offerings at HIMSS 2007. /News/000000005738.aspx HULIQ, US Wed, 28 Feb 2007 00:00:00 GMT Microsoft in late February delivered what it claims is an extensible architectural foundation to simplify a problem that has plagued health care IT—interoperability and integration among a variety of health care solutions. /News/000000005737.aspx Channel Insider, US Wed, 28 Feb 2007 00:00:00 GMT Kent and Medway Health Informatics Service (KMHIS) will soon deliver faster, more cost-effective IT support to more than 300 locations and 30,000 staff through Touchpaper’s new service desk integration (SDI) solution. /News/000000005736.aspx PublicTechnology.net, UK Wed, 28 Feb 2007 00:00:00 GMT The East Central Health (ECH) Region has received money for expansion of its Telehealth services. /News/000000005735.aspx Vermilion Standard, Canada Tue, 27 Feb 2007 00:00:00 GMT Buying and selling certain health information isn’t new. Since the 1940s, health insuring organizations (HIOs) have bought prescription records from a variety of sources, including through the claims process by managed care organizations, pharmacy benefit mangers, and others, and then linked with physicians listed in the Physician Master File of the American Medical Association (AMA). /News/000000005734.aspx Acadiana Medical News Tue, 27 Feb 2007 00:00:00 GMT Doctors looking to attract new patients may want to buy an electronic medical record system because a new survey slated to be released Monday found that a majority of consumers said the technology plays a role in their selection of a physician. /News/000000005733.aspx SiliconValley.com Tue, 27 Feb 2007 00:00:00 GMT Microsoft Corp. announced Monday it is buying Medstory Inc., a Foster City, California-based start-up that offers web search technology for medical information. /News/000000005732.aspx Earthtimes.org Tue, 27 Feb 2007 00:00:00 GMT Scam artists accessing personal information may be after more than your money. Instead of credit cards and bank records, these crooks want to use your medical identity - and the results can be life-threatening. /News/000000005731.aspx Eagle Tribune, US Mon, 26 Feb 2007 00:00:00 GMT Online health searchers are relying on user-generated media to learn about health and medical issues. Finding content on credible corporate, nonprofit and government Web sites – as well as on certain blogs, wikis and other social media – may be increasing Americans' trust in the information they find online, according to a study conducted in December by Envision Solutions, LLC. /News/000000005730.aspx DM News Mon, 26 Feb 2007 00:00:00 GMT RFID chips are likely to be used to monitor the whereabouts of patients in at least one hospital in New Zealand by the end of the year, after a trial proposed by the Health IT cluster met with strong interest from would-be suppliers. /News/000000005729.aspx Stuff.co.nz, New Zealand Mon, 26 Feb 2007 00:00:00 GMT Business Objects, a provider of business intelligence solutions, is helping hospitals and health insurance providers gain a clear and complete view of key metrics, performance indicators and analytics that support critical planning and informed decisions. /News/000000005728.aspx EFYTimes, India Mon, 26 Feb 2007 00:00:00 GMT Tiny molecules called microRNAs, only 19 to 21 nucleotides in length, are able to effectively silence sometimes large sets of genes. /News/000000005727.aspx Medical News Today Mon, 26 Feb 2007 00:00:00 GMT Motion Computing, a San Francisco-based vendor of ultramobile computing and wireless communications, has unveiled its new C5 mobile clinical assistant. /News/000000005726.aspx Healthcare IT News Mon, 26 Feb 2007 00:00:00 GMT Mayo Clinic has teamed up with Digital Cyclone of Minnetonka to deliver medical information to sick people who don't have time for a doctor's appointment. /News/000000005725.aspx WKBT, US Fri, 23 Feb 2007 00:00:00 GMT Lucid has previewed its VivaNet telemedicine server for dermatology applications. The VivaNet server is intended to link dermatology practitioners using Lucid's non- invasive VivaScope confocal imagers with other dermatologists or pathologists via the Internet. /News/000000005724.aspx Wireless Healthcare Fri, 23 Feb 2007 00:00:00 GMT Thailand will be the new Asian base for Tele Health Services, a health service provider using new technology that allows patients to be diagnosed and partially treated from a remote location. /News/000000005723.aspx Nation Multimedia, Thailand Fri, 23 Feb 2007 00:00:00 GMT NHS doctors have given the controversial new £12bn IT system their backing, but say that no more money should be spent on it. In a survey of 3,000 doctors, 66 per cent said they think the new system would make a positive change to the NHS. /News/000000005722.aspx Register Fri, 23 Feb 2007 00:00:00 GMT Oracle has announced that the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UT Houston) uses Semantic Web technology from Oracle and TopQuadrant, a Certified Partner in the Oracle PartnerNetwork, to enable public health preparedness and allow for improved decision making. /News/000000005721.aspx Wireless Healthcare Fri, 23 Feb 2007 00:00:00 GMT Intel Corp. announced that its mobile clinical assistant (MCA) platform is now ready to enable nurses to spend more time with patients, do their jobs on the move while remaining connected and manage the administration of medications /News/000000005720.aspx IT News Online, India Thu, 22 Feb 2007 00:00:00 GMT After more than 20 years as a family physician, Michelle Greiver questions why Canadians can access their bank accounts 24 hours a day, seven days a week, but when they go to the hospital after hours, their medical records are unavailable. /News/000000005719.aspx Globe and Mail, Canada Thu, 22 Feb 2007 00:00:00 GMT Patients in Duke University's health system can now go to one website to pay medical bills, schedule doctor appointments and eventually view their personal medical histories. /News/000000005718.aspx USA Today Thu, 22 Feb 2007 00:00:00 GMT The federal government’s healthcare information technology development efforts typically seem well-charted; the discussions, however, are often cloyingly circumspect. Rarely do HHS committee meetings give rise to open dissent. /News/000000005717.aspx ModernHealthcare.com Thu, 22 Feb 2007 00:00:00 GMT Need to know where avian flu, salmonella or dengue fever been popping up? A quick view of HEALTHmap shows you where more than 50 diseases have been reported around the world, who is reporting and how “hot” an outbreak is based on the number of reports. /News/000000005716.aspx Infection Control Today Thu, 22 Feb 2007 00:00:00 GMT Doctors and nurses are increasingly abandoning clipboards and paper files for electronic patient files. However, a number of practitioners aren't happy with the devices available for carrying on their rounds /News/000000005715.aspx ITBusiness.ca, Canada Thu, 22 Feb 2007 00:00:00 GMT Concerned MPs are asking ICT professionals and the public to help them in their investigation of the troubled implementation of England's NHS Care Records Service. /News/000000005714.aspx BJHC.co.uk Thu, 22 Feb 2007 00:00:00 GMT GenoLogics reports that the Hospital for Sick Children Research Institute has selected Geneus to manage its genomics workflows and assist with collaborative stem cell research across nine laboratories /News/000000005713.aspx Laboratory Talk Thu, 22 Feb 2007 00:00:00 GMT An electronic clipboard that has the potential to save lives has been unveiled. /News/000000005712.aspx BBC News, UK Wed, 21 Feb 2007 00:00:00 GMT While you can retrieve cash from your bank account anywhere in the world and maintain your bank records online, Americans seldom maintain their health records by using software, hardware and Internet connections. /News/000000005711.aspx Jackson Sun, US Tue, 20 Feb 2007 00:00:00 GMT Shares in troubled medical software firm iSoft were 9% higher on Friday after it emerged an Australian software firm was in talks to buy it. /News/000000005710.aspx BBC News Fri, 16 Feb 2007 00:00:00 GMT Dr. William Yasnoff agreed that $30 million is a relatively small sum for state government to invest in the adoption of electronic health records, but not too small to make some headway on what he considers a better idea. /News/000000005709.aspx WTN News Thu, 15 Feb 2007 00:00:00 GMT Dr. Kevin Baumlin, director of informatics for the department of emergency medicine at Mount Sinai, says the point is better care /News/000000005708.aspx InfoWorld Thu, 15 Feb 2007 00:00:00 GMT A consortium of 20 partners from European universities, public bodies and private companies is teaming up to develop next-generation technology to allow older people to continue to live independent lives in their own homes. /News/000000005707.aspx Cordis News Wed, 14 Feb 2007 00:00:00 GMT The head of the Health and Human Services Department was grilled Tuesday about the swelling medical costs to citizens. /News/000000005706.aspx GovExec.com Wed, 14 Feb 2007 00:00:00 GMT Physicians are turning to electronic medical records (EMR) to lighten their work load, have convenient access to records, improve accuracy, and improves the bottom line through cost savings. /News/000000005705.aspx American Chronicle Wed, 14 Feb 2007 00:00:00 GMT During the opening reception at the National Patient Safety Foundation's annual conference in San Francisco last May, patient-safety pioneer Lucian Leape was holding court and talking about how electronic health records could be used to automatically capture data on any adverse reactions or side effects of new drugs on the market. /News/000000005704.aspx ModernHealthcare.com Tue, 13 Feb 2007 00:00:00 GMT European Commission discusses scheme for sharing medical records across the continent /News/000000005703.aspx Computeractive, UK Tue, 13 Feb 2007 00:00:00 GMT In recent years, hospitals, physicians and pharmacies across the country have been installing new software programs that enable electronic prescriptions. /News/000000005702.aspx Nevada Appeal Sun, 11 Feb 2007 00:00:00 GMT Workers at the four elder-care residences in San Antonio and Boerne can meet with virtual in-house doctors for everything from flu to high blood pressure. They sit on exam tables facing a monitor on which they can see the doctor. /News/000000005701.aspx San Antonio Express Sun, 11 Feb 2007 00:00:00 GMT Just 20 years ago, providing healthcare services using telecommunications seemed closer to science fiction than reality. In 2007, however, many U.S. hospitals are beginning to implement telemedicine programs, allowing, for example, specialists in off-site locations to provide consulting services to onsite physicians. /News/000000005700.aspx DOTmed.com Sun, 11 Feb 2007 00:00:00 GMT A northern Ontario breast cancer patient is now confident about her treatment plan thanks to telemedicine capabilities at Kingston General Hospital (KGH). /News/000000005699.aspx Hospital News, Canada Sun, 11 Feb 2007 00:00:00 GMT The Senate Indian Affairs Committee on Thursday approved by voice vote a bill that would authorize $6 million to provide mental health services for suicide prevention, intervention and treatment available to American Indians and Alaska Natives through expanded telemedicine systems /News/000000005698.aspx Kaiser network.org Sun, 11 Feb 2007 00:00:00 GMT IMR International Limited, developers of e-communication and clinical information solutions, today announced that it will launch EPG Patient Direct in June 2007. The service, designed specifically for public and patient use, will provide visitors with access to a vast range of healthcare content written and structured specifically for their needs. /News/000000005697.aspx Medical News Today Sun, 11 Feb 2007 00:00:00 GMT Patients visiting Fairmont General Hospital can now take their laptops with them and hook into the World Wide Web from a bed or while waiting for tests. /News/000000005696.aspx Times-West Virginian Sun, 11 Feb 2007 00:00:00 GMT McKesson has signed a $15 million technology and automation agreement with General Health System of Baton Rouge, Louisiana as part of the healthcare provider's initiative to connect physicians and patients to vital health information and improve care delivery. /News/000000005695.aspx Computer Business Review, UK Sun, 11 Feb 2007 00:00:00 GMT CLC bio announces a collaboration with Apple to deliver the best desktop-based bioinformatics solutions in the market /News/000000005694.aspx Laboratory Talk, UK Sun, 11 Feb 2007 00:00:00 GMT The North Carolina Biotechnology Center has awarded $1.9 million in grants to four North Carolina universities to boost biotechnology research and teaching collaborations. /News/000000005693.aspx Carolina Newswire Sun, 11 Feb 2007 00:00:00 GMT University of Leicester research into variations in the human genome which may have links with serious medical conditions, has received a highly-sought after international award. /News/000000005692.aspx Medical News Today, UK Sun, 11 Feb 2007 00:00:00 GMT Speakers at Europe’s largest healthcare computing conference and exhibition, HC2007 which is organised by the British Computer Society (BCS), will focus on how informatics challenges the boundaries in the healthcare context. /News/000000005691.aspx eGov monitor, UK Sun, 11 Feb 2007 00:00:00 GMT BT today hit an important milestone on N3, the broadband network it is building for the NHS National Programme for Information Technology, as it passed the 18,000 connection mark two months ahead of schedule. /News/000000005690.aspx Assodigitale, Italy Sun, 11 Feb 2007 00:00:00 GMT Millions of migrant workers stream through the United States each year, harvesting everything from California raisins to Alaska salmon. When they move, precious medical records are often left behind. /News/000000005689.aspx Enid News & Eagle, US Wed, 08 Mar 2006 00:00:00 GMT A growing number of Canadians are using the Internet to diagnose their own medical conditions, says a national survey by IBM. /News/000000005688.aspx Ottawa Business Journal, Canada Wed, 08 Mar 2006 00:00:00 GMT An increasing number of health insurance plans are offering online options for accessing and completing applications, according to a survey by Forrester Research. /News/000000005687.aspx iHealth Beat, US Wed, 08 Mar 2006 00:00:00 GMT Irvine, Calif.-based Cardiomedics Inc. will market wireless cardiac monitoring technology developed by Orlando, Fla.-based Telzuit Medical Technologies Inc. /News/000000005686.aspx Health Data Management, US Wed, 08 Mar 2006 00:00:00 GMT The American Health Information Community, the panel of government and private-sector executives seeking to accelerate deployment of electronic health records (EHRs), received a new task yesterday: using health IT to improve the nation’s responses to a disaster. /News/000000005685.aspx Government Health IT, US Wed, 08 Mar 2006 00:00:00 GMT Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston is testing in its emergency department an indoor positioning information system based on ultrasound technology. /News/000000005684.aspx Health Data Management, US Tue, 07 Mar 2006 00:00:00 GMT The 4th Annual RFID, Tracking and Barcoding for Hospitals Conference will be held March 20-23 at the Hotel Valley Ho in Scottsdale, Ariz. The conference is sponsored by Healthcare IQ, a division of the International Quality and Productivity Center. /News/000000005683.aspx Health Data Management, US Tue, 07 Mar 2006 00:00:00 GMT The HIMSS Electronic Health Record Vendors Association has released for comment a draft of version 2.0 of its Interoperability Roadmap. /News/000000005682.aspx Health Data Management, US Tue, 07 Mar 2006 00:00:00 GMT Quality improvement organizations are playing an increasing role in national health information exchange efforts, a report released Monday found. /News/000000005681.aspx Healthcare IT News, US Tue, 07 Mar 2006 00:00:00 GMT The federal government within the next year wants to make electronic health records available to first responders for use in emergency situations, HHS Secretary Michael Leavitt said Tuesday. The move is part of several recommendations from a Hurricane Katrina after-action report. /News/000000005680.aspx Healthcare IT News, US Tue, 07 Mar 2006 00:00:00 GMT THE federal Government's ongoing commitment to HealthConnect has been called into question as money pours into a national standards body rather than the planned shared electronic health record system. /News/000000005679.aspx NEWS.com.au, Australia Tue, 07 Mar 2006 00:00:00 GMT "We will make wider use of electronic records and other health information technology to help control costs and reduce dangerous medical errors." Thus spoke President Bush on Jan. 31, 2006, in his State of the Union address. /News/000000005678.aspx iHealth Beat, US Tue, 07 Mar 2006 00:00:00 GMT Senior managers from NHS Connecting for Health today briefed their opposite numbers from the French electronic health record institute who have been on a fact finding mission in England. /News/000000005677.aspx eGov monitor, UK Mon, 06 Mar 2006 00:00:00 GMT THE federal Government's ongoing commitment to HealthConnect has been called into question as money pours into a national standards body rather than the planned shared electronic health record system. /News/000000005676.aspx Australian IT, Australia Mon, 06 Mar 2006 00:00:00 GMT The Department of Veterans Affairs collaboration with the Department of Defense to share electronic medical records for patients receiving care from both departments has earned VA recognition. /News/000000005675.aspx FedNews-Online, US Mon, 06 Mar 2006 00:00:00 GMT Getting people more involved in their own health and care is Marlene Winfield’s driving ambition, and she believes NHS Connecting for Health is a major step forward. /News/000000005674.aspx eGov monitor, UK Mon, 06 Mar 2006 00:00:00 GMT Novell Platinum VAR Associated Network Solutions (ANS) has won a network migration contract valued at £200,000 from North Cumbria Health Community, to consolidate its file, print and email services for the entire NHS region. /News/000000005673.aspx Computing, UK Mon, 06 Mar 2006 00:00:00 GMT Harrisburg, Pa.-based PinnacleHealth has outsourced storage and retrieval management of its film-based X-rays to Iron Mountain Inc., Boston. /News/000000005672.aspx Health Data Management, US Mon, 06 Mar 2006 00:00:00 GMT Unibased Systems Architecture Inc., a vendor of enterprisewide scheduling and surgery management software for provider organizations, has launched an executive consulting division. /News/000000005671.aspx Health Data Management, US Mon, 06 Mar 2006 00:00:00 GMT The Air Force has converted a group of C-17s, which fly weekly medical evacuation missions from here to the battlefields of Afghanistan and Iraq, into flying ICUs that provide the same technology on an aircraft that is available in any hospital intensive care unit. /News/000000005670.aspx Government Health IT, US Mon, 06 Mar 2006 00:00:00 GMT Bay Medical Center in Panama City, Fla., will implement a suite of clinical and ancillary software from McKesson Corp., San Francisco. The hospital has used the vendor's STAR hospital information system since 1989. /News/000000005669.aspx Health Data Management, US Fri, 03 Mar 2006 00:00:00 GMT Pittsburgh-based invivodata inc. has announced its handheld clinical trials application can accept data from blood glucose meters. /News/000000005668.aspx Health Data Management, US Fri, 03 Mar 2006 00:00:00 GMT Drug information content vendor First DataBank has introduced software to ease the design and use of computerized physician order entry systems. /News/000000005667.aspx Health Data Management, US Fri, 03 Mar 2006 00:00:00 GMT Misdiagnosis tops the list of medical mistakes that patients say they’ve experienced, according to a recent survey of a little more than 2,000 U.S. respondents. /News/000000005666.aspx Healthcare IT News, US Fri, 03 Mar 2006 00:00:00 GMT Rep. Jon Porter (R-Nev.), will introduce a bill today to make the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program (FEHBP) a leader in the use of electronic health records. /News/000000005665.aspx Government Health IT, US Fri, 03 Mar 2006 00:00:00 GMT House Republicans have introduced legislation aimed at increasing innovation in industry and the health care system, but opponents say the plan fails to address major impediments to the nation's competitiveness. /News/000000005664.aspx Government Health IT, US Fri, 03 Mar 2006 00:00:00 GMT French health service IT chiefs have been on a fact-finding mission to pick up tips from NHS technology executives. Managers from the French electronic health record institute met NHS IT director general, Richard Granger, and their day's tour included sessions on system procurement and the technical approach to the UK's massive health service technology improvement programme. /News/000000005663.aspx Silicon.com, UK Fri, 03 Mar 2006 00:00:00 GMT A bill passed by the Wisconsin Senate attempts to unite public and private interests in a new effort to improve health care in the state using information technology. /News/000000005662.aspx WTN News, US Fri, 03 Mar 2006 00:00:00 GMT Was that Xanex or Xanax? Or maybe Zantac? If you’re a health care professional you’d better know the difference--mistakes can be fatal. /News/000000005661.aspx innovations report, Germany Fri, 03 Mar 2006 00:00:00 GMT Computerized physician order entry long has been touted as a technology that could transform the health care system through improved efficiency and accuracy. However, if CPOE is such a promising technology, why have adoption rates remained so low? /News/000000005660.aspx iHealth Beat, US Fri, 03 Mar 2006 00:00:00 GMT Following an investigation into the theft of disks and tapes containing information on 365,000 home health patients, Providence Health System has fired one employee and accepted the resignations of three others. /News/000000005659.aspx Health Data Management, US Fri, 03 Mar 2006 00:00:00 GMT The future of HealthConnect and concerns over the federal Government's fading commitment to the nationwide electronic health record program will be thrashed out tomorrow at a meeting of the Australian Health Ministers' Advisory Council. /News/000000005658.aspx Australian IT, Australia Thu, 02 Mar 2006 00:00:00 GMT Much has been written about the enormous effort required to take scientific discovery from the laboratory bench to the patient’s bedside. In the Supplement to the February issue of the Journal of General Internal Medicine, Brad Doebbeling, M.D., M.Sc., and colleagues offer strategy on how best to take the next step, to use technology to incorporate new or better treatments at the bedsides of patients treated anywhere. /News/000000005657.aspx innovations report, Germany Thu, 02 Mar 2006 00:00:00 GMT Lack of consistent national information standards and code sets is a top barrier to the adoption of electronic health records, according to a survey by the Healthcare Financial Management Association. /News/000000005656.aspx iHealth Beat, US Thu, 02 Mar 2006 00:00:00 GMT The European Space Agency will use "smart" shirts to evaluate the quality of sleep astronauts get while in orbit. The agency plans for German astronaut Thomas Reiter to don the LifeShirt, from VivoMetrics Inc., Ventura, Calif., later this year while aboard the International Space Station. /News/000000005655.aspx Health Data Management, US Thu, 02 Mar 2006 00:00:00 GMT Cash flow improvements generate more than $1 million per month, officials report /News/000000005654.aspx Government Health IT, US Thu, 02 Mar 2006 00:00:00 GMT