News tagged with health records
'Jeopardy!'-winning computer delving into medicine
Some guy in his pajamas, home sick with bronchitis and complaining online about it, could soon be contributing to a digital collection of medical information designed to help speed diagnoses and treatments.
Medicine & Health / Medical research
May 22, 2011 |
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The most frequent error in medicine
The most frequent error in medicine seems to occur nearly one out of three times a patient is referred to a specialist. A new study found that nearly a third of patients age 65 and older referred to a specialist are not scheduled ...
Feb 26, 2010 |
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IBM putting Watson to work in health insurance
Enough with the fun and games. Watson is going to work. IBM's supercomputer system, best known for trouncing the world's best "Jeopardy!" players on TV, is being tapped by one of the nation's largest health ...
Technology / Computer Sciences
Sep 12, 2011 |
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Smarter systems help busy doctors remember
Busy doctors can miss important details about a patient's care during an office examination. To prevent that, Northwestern Medicine researchers have created a whip-smart assistant for physicians – a new system using ...
Dec 21, 2010 |
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Study finds partner abuse leads to wide range of health problems
Women abused by intimate partners suffer higher rates of a wide variety of doctor-diagnosed medical maladies compared to women who were never abused, according to a new study of more than 3,000 women.
Oct 12, 2009 |
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Ownership of electronic health information must be addressed, article says
Clarifying legal rights of patient control over electronic health records could be the key to making the best use of the huge amount of electronic medical information that the "Stimulus" funding will create in the next few ...
Mar 24, 2009 |
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Electronic Medical Records: An Obamanomic Step Toward Improved Health Care
The Obama Administration's goal to improve the entire health care system in the USA begins with an incremental first step by introducing nearly 500,000 physicians to electronic medical records via the American Recovery and ...
May 19, 2009 |
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Google Health to safeguard 'end-of-life' wishes
Google on Thursday invited people to store "end-of-life" wishes at its free online health records management service.
Jul 17, 2009 |
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Government's personal health record project meets with limited enthusiasm from patients
HealthSpace, the internet-accessible personal health organiser developed as part of the National Programme for IT in the National Health Service, was significantly less popular than anticipated, a research team from the University ...
Nov 17, 2010 |
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Fighting disease outbreaks with two-way health information exchange
Building upon four decades of research and real world operation of electronic medical records and health information exchange, Regenstrief Institute researchers have developed, tested and are now operating ...
Sep 21, 2009 |
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Managing doctors' practices made easier with new software
(PhysOrg.com) -- A McMaster University-led research team has developed an innovative software tool that gives family doctors up-to-date information on their patients in two seconds or less.
Nov 25, 2009 |
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Digital health push woos tech firms, pains doctors
Two years ago, Dr. Gonzalo Venegas decided to bring his medical practice into the Information Age.
Jun 10, 2011 |
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Refusing immunizations puts children at increased risk of pertussis infection
Children of parents who refuse vaccines are 23 times more likely to get whooping cough compared to fully immunized children, according to a new study led by a vaccine research team at Kaiser Permanente Colorado's Institute ...
May 26, 2009 |
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Electronic tracking system can help diabetes patient care
An electronic system with personalized patient information shared by diabetes patients and their primary care providers improved diabetes care and clinical outcomes, found a new study in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal). ...
Jul 06, 2009 |
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Chicken pox vaccine reduces shingles risk in kids -- study of 172,000 kids used EHRs
Herpes zoster, also known as shingles, is very rare among children who have been vaccinated against chicken pox, according to a Kaiser Permanente study in the December issue of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Journal.
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Dec 04, 2009 |
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