Informatics news and information

A pair of Indiana University computer scientists set out to devise a computer-based, artificial intelligence system that could “think like a doctor.” But what they created may be even better, producing a system that could outperform physicians in making care decisions over time.
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Patients' grasp of treatment choices and the confidence with which they manage their health and medical care may influence healthcare spending, a newly published study finds.
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About 540 software systems engineers from 101 companies or organizations are spending most of their days this week sitting in front of their laptops at dozens of lines of banquet tables in the basement of a Chicago hotel, trying to get 160 different software systems to talk to one another in a...
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Hear case studies of how organizations are leveraging clinical informatics for better system performance and improved patient safety, along with steps to take to continue building on this for the future.
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Audax Health, a Washington-based health IT company that offers social-media applications to help consumers manage their health, has named four new members to its executive team.
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The American College of Physicians, the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society and Texas Medical Society have joined a growing chorus of organizations calling for revisions to proposed Stage 3 meaningful-use criteria and the way future standards for the federal electronic...
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Physicians interested in achieving board certification in the subspecialty of clinical informatics can receive some clarification on the process in a Jan. 13 blog post by Dr. William Hersh,...
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The FCC is on the cusp of unleashing technology that could release patients from the constellations of machines that monitor them in the hospital and revolutionize the level of home monitoring.
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Setting national examples and getting the tough jobs done are the twin accomplishments of the 2012 winners of the annual awards for outstanding achievement in applied medical informatics given by the Association of Medical Directors of Information Systems, the...
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Last month's announced delay in the rollout of the ICD-10 diagnostic and procedural codes has received the written endorsement of five noted medical informaticists in
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