Informatics news and information

The American College of Physicians is nervous about where HHS is headed with the criteria for meaningful use of electronic health records.
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Accountable care organizations and other entities that do population health management will be heavily dependent on claims data from payers for the next 10 to 15 years, predicts Jonathan Weiner, professor of health policy and management and health informatics at the Bloomberg School of Public...
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Stanford Hospital and Clinics has named Dr. Pravene Nath CIO and Dr. Christopher Sharp chief medical information officer.
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A large hospital consortium and two health systems have launched a "big data" pilot project to automatically extract claims and clinical data from their information technology systems.
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A substantial number of Americans are worried about the security of their medical information.
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Nashville-based hospital chain HCA has hired Dr. Jim Jirjis as chief health information officer. Jirjis, an internal medicine physician, has most recently been serving as Vanderbilt University Medical Center's chief medical information officer.
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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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