Same as information technology and information systems. The term is more widely used in Europe.
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- Healthline launches ad network
- Healthline, which already acts as a third-party editorial provider to many health sites, is launching a third-party ad network. I don't see it as the next ValueClick or some monstrous blind network with tons of sites," Healthline senior vice president for ad services John Lane told ZDNet....
- Blog posts 2008-06-09
- Road signs for physicians
- According to BioMed Central, French researchers have developed a new iconic drug information system inspired by road signs. This icon system is named VCM, short for 'Visualisation des Connaissances Médicales' in French, which means 'Visualization of Medical Knowledge.' Like road signs, the VCM graphical language uses a small set of...
- Blog posts 2008-04-28
- Modeling urban road networks
- According to New Scientist, two physicists from France and the U.S. have developed a simple mathematical model which shows how urban road networks evolve. Their model shows that urban street patterns and leaf pattern formation follow similar rules. The researchers validated their theoretical model by analyzing real road networks in...
- Blog posts 2008-04-26
- Integrated health management
- Integrated health managementLike, DUH![i]What would you do with these predictions once you had them?[/i]Find a way to lose those suckers. Maybe get them fired or something.RE: Integrated health managementNo wonder this idea isn't going to take off, its got Larry Page on the board and they aren't asking the...
- Discussion threads 2008-04-10
- Integrated health management
- Eighteen luminaries (including Google co-founder Larry Page) recently developed a list of 14 Grand Engineering Challenges which they consider "essential for humanity to flourish." A couple of the challenges seem a bit...odd (Enhance Virtual Reality, Reverse Engineer the Brain), but one stands out from the rest (at least, for the...
- Blog posts 2008-04-10
- University Offers Business IT Education to Thousands of Students Across Sweden
- University of Gothenburg, one of the top ranked universities in Sweden, has educated a new generation of tech-savvy professionals. Traditionally, business schools in Sweden have not provided IT instruction because it was seen as a separate skill that should be taught to students studying informatics, not business. However, IT proficiency...
- Case studies 2008-04-01
- Recreating 3.5 billion year-old genes
- A U.S. team of scientists wanted to determine what was the Earth's temperature several billions years ago. But because most of the team was composed of biologists, the researchers took an unusual approach. Instead of analyzing rock formations or measuring isotopes in fossils, they've 'resurrected' a variety of genes and...
- Blog posts 2008-02-08
- ICD-10: Turning Regulatory Compliance Into Strategic Advantage - Are U.S. Health Plans and Providers Ready for ICD-10 Adoption?
- As if existing IT investments weren't a large enough strain on provider and payor budgets, the U.S. health care industry is facing a new challenge: ICD-10 (International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems, Version 10) implementation. In 2011, per the mandate of Senate Bill 628, the United States...
- White papers 2008-02-04
- Could the MacBook Air's trackpad support pen input?
- As I played with the MacBook Air at the recent Macworld Expo and tried out its multitouch trackpad, my mind inexplicably went to pen input. What would it be like to write on the trackpad like a pen digitizer pad? Could it be done? Believe it or...
- Blog posts 2008-01-31
- Evidence Based Medicine - Life Saving; Cost Saving
- A leading health informatics and medical management services provider gathers clinical data. The system as originally developed was not designed to scale to the volume and variety of data nor complexity of fact models and rule sets that became necessary as the company evolved, and was putting severe strains on...
- Case studies 2008-01-01
- Check Point Provides Security for eGovernment in Czech Republic
- The Czech Ministry of Informatics CMI goal is to create a more competitive telecommunications environment and give support to e-business. Another challenge facing CMI was that the GovNet solution could not be dependent on technologies or products of individual companies and needed to enable compatibility between government departments with complete...
- Case studies 2007-12-14
- Who will mandate electronic health records?
- There's a race on to mandate electronic health records. (Picture from Medical Informatics Insider.) Insurers, politicians and hospitals are all piling on the pressure to make the investment. An AMA story this week describes the pressure. Some doctors are retiring rather than automate. In...
- Blog posts 2007-12-10
- Just how bad are medical records?
- Just how bad are medical records?Medical records USAOf course the records in USA are on paper because the ultra high cost of treatment in USA does not leave any funds for IT in spite of the rocketing insurance bills. I pay much much less in tax in UK than I...
- Discussion threads 2007-11-26
- After consultations security expert believes Comcast may be "violating the law" on Torrent practices
- Christopher Soghoian, a graduate student in the school of Informatics at Indiana University, delves into the areas of security, privacy and e-crime, has done extensive researh into Comcast's throttling of BitTorrent and other high bandwidth traffic- and alleged impersonation practices to cripple this content. In an extensive post...
- Blog posts 2007-10-23
- UK Health Service Delivers Faster IT Support to 10,000 Users With New Business Helpdesk Support
- Leicestershire Health Informatics LHIS in the UK wanted to re-think its IT support strategy. It needed to meet existing Service Level Agreements SLAs for its 10,000 users faster, and more affordably. LHIS chose Dell Business Helpdesk Support, which enables in-house IT support staff to deliver high quality, technical support service...
- Case studies 2007-10-10
- Today's Debate: How deep should electronic health records be?
- Today's Debate: How deep should electronic health records be?If any proof were neededthat this is the next big land rush, with enormous amounts of money at stake, this is it. Aside from sports [1], the only reason ASU ever does [b]anything[/b] is if the Administration sees boatloads of money...
- Discussion threads 2007-10-01
- Today's Debate: How deep should electronic health records be?
- This came in a press release today from Arizona State University. Biomedical informatics is seen as critical to advancing "customized" medicine, in which care is tailored to specific health profiles of individual patients. It is also emerging as an essential tool in federal and state government...
- Blog posts 2007-10-01
- The unintended consequences of automation
- An important study from the University of Pennsylvania evaluates the unintended consequences of automating health care records. The full study is in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, or JAMIA. All that fudging doctors use to get past the bureaucracy suddenly bites. A doctor may...
- Blog posts 2007-09-19
- Leicestershire Health Informatics Service - All the right connections
- SupportWorld magazine has kindly given permission to Touchpaper to reproduce a three-page article focusing on NHS Connecting for Health and featuring Touchpaper customer Leicestershire Health Informatics Service LHIS. Touchpaper's IT Business Management ITBM solution was selected by...
- White papers 2007-07-01
- Google declares war on $2 trillion health care industry
- The Google health care die has been cast, it is a $2 trillion dollar declaration of medical intent.Adam Bosworth, Google Vice preisdent Engineering, is no longer content with "touch-feely" consumer reach-out campaigns to "learn" what the "health care consumer" wants, he is now doing what Google does best: Telling the world how...
- Blog posts 2007-05-24
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