Informatics news and information

Four physician informaticists and the leader of a health information exchange have been named winners of the 2013 annual awards for outstanding achievement in applied medical informatics given by the Association of Medical Directors of Information Systems, the organization for physician...
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Many of the current projects at the Boston-based Northeastern Personal Health Informatics program are aimed at giving individuals—particularly people with limited resources—more opportunities to take charge of their health.
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Trinity Health will look to the cloud to enhance its data processing and data analytics capabilities as well as its ability to more rapidly adapt its information technology systems to the fast-moving future.
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The Regenstrief Institute in Indianapolis has agreed to license its Indiana Network for Patient Care and DOCS4DOCS clinical results delivery software to a new for-profit subsidiary of the Indiana Health Information Exchange.
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Zhenqiu Liu joined Cedars-Sinai in Los Angeles as director of bioinformatics in the department of medicine's hematology/oncology division on Feb. 18.
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The Center for Biomedical Informatics at the Regenstrief Institute in Indianapolis has named Titus Schleyer to be its new director, effective June 1.
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The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston School of Biomedical Informatics announced the appointment of Jiajie Zhang as its new dean, effective March 1.
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Primary-care providers who use electronic health records are more likely to order routine women's health tests than those without the systems, according to a study.
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Dr. Carl Vartian was named chief medical information officer of HCA's Gulf Coast Division, a Houston-based health network.
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It used to be that preventing heart disease was no game. But now, not only can it be a game, but that game is part of an award-winning mobile telephone application.
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