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May 23, 2011
Medical data mining proves helpful for predicting adverse drug events, according to a study in the May edition of Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association. Prescription drugs can be...
May 17, 2011
It's no secret that small physician practices are less likely than larger practices and hospitals to adopt and use electronic health record systems.The federal government's meaningful use incentive...
May 16, 2011
Data mining of the medical literature could help uncover drug side effects before they cause serious harm to patients, a new study suggests. Researchers from Santa Monica, Calif., think tank Rand...
May 16, 2011
AMIA co-convenes meeting that succeeds in forging common US.-EU approach to HIT. The final meeting in a series held by the ARGOS eHealth Consortium, a project funded by the European Commission (EC)...
May 12, 2011
AMIA, the association for informatics professionals, is urging the Office of the National Coordinator to give particular attention to workforce development. The organization called attention to...
Apr 15, 2011
Members of the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) traveled to Capitol Hill last week to make the case for expanding the roles of health IT and informatics in healthcare delivery, and...
Apr 5, 2011
If you’re seeking informatics experts to learn from, you’ll soon find that many of those experts are professors or former professors who are involved with activities outside their ivy-...
Mar 18, 2011
A new study, conducted by researchers from the Regenstrief Institute and the schools of medicine at Indiana University and Moi University, is one of the first to explore and demonstrate the impact...
Mar 8, 2011
The benefits of personal health records will not be reaped soon, according to a recent study by IT advisory firm Computer Sciences Corp., Health Data Management reports. According to the report, the...
Feb 23, 2011
Dr. Bill Hersh, professor and chairman of the medical informatics and clinical epidemiology department at Oregon Health & Science University, talks with Modern Healthcare reporter Joseph Conn...