Informatics news and information

Precision for Medicine, which provides specialized services and infrastructure to support life science companies and next generation medical products, has named Eric Perakslis senior adviser for bioinformatics and information technology.
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It's hard to see the future of medicine through the scabs, blisters and scars that torment 7-year-old Charlie Knuth , but the boy from Appleton, Wis., is helping doctors perfect a pioneering intervention called gene editing, a procedure that could lend hope to thousands of people suffering from...
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When Dr. Anil Jain was an undergraduate in biomedical engineering at Northwestern University, he got a glimpse of his future in medical informatics.
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Online courses are now being offered for physicians preparing to take the first-ever American Board of Medical Specialties certification exam for clinical informatics.
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From a healthcare informatics perspective, it's as if Juliet married Romeo and the parents approved. Two not-for-profit standards-development organizations, producers of once-competing clinical codes, SNOMED-CT and LOINC, have reached a 10-year collaborative agreement to work together to improve...
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While there have been successes and failures in the deployment of open-source health information technology by federally supported safety net healthcare organizations, the federal government could and should do more to ensure more frequent successes, according to an HHS-funded report.
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A noted physician informatics specialist is predicting the FDA soon will begin regulating health information technology for the first time.
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Big changes have arrived for healthcare organizations seeking to leverage investments in health information technology and meeting government mandates and incentive payment program requirements. But physician informaticists must balance these multiple concerns and still keep patient care at the...
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Deloitte has named Brett Davis general manager of its newly launched Deloitte Health Informatics, which provides advanced analytics services and products to healthcare providers, researchers and medical manufacturers.
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Leigh Anderson has been named COO of informatics and technology services at Premier healthcare alliance in Charlotte, N.C. In his newly created role, he will oversee Premier's quality and safety improvement, population health management, and cost reduction applications.
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