Archive for the ‘IT / Internet / E-mail’ Category

GE Healthcare Announces Participation By Centricity Health Information Exchange Services At 2008 IHE Connectathon

Thursday, February 28th, 2008

GE Healthcare IT announced that many of its Centricity(R) solutions, including Centricity Health Information Exchange (HIE) Services, passed important integration profiles established by Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE). The IHE testing process is a critical step in achieving systems interoperability to enhance the quality of patient care. Many of these ...

Elsevier’s Illumin8 Research Tool Helps Corporate Research Professionals Answer R&D Questions

Tuesday, February 26th, 2008

Elsevier, the world's leading publisher of scientific, technical and medical (STM) information, has announced the launch of illumin8 (http://www.illumin8.com/), the first web-based research tool that integrates natural language search technology with content from Elsevier's full-text scientific articles, millions of scientific abstracts, patents and billions of web sources to give users ...

Electron Filmed For First Time Ever

Monday, February 25th, 2008

Now it is possible to see a movie of an electron. The movie shows how an electron rides on a light wave after just having been pulled away from an atom. This is the first time an electron has ever been filmed, and the results are presented in the latest ...

RemedyMD And Dell Team To Deliver Solutions For Information Based Medicine And Research

Monday, February 25th, 2008

RemedyMD®, Inc., a pioneer in the field of predictive informatics, announced collaboration with Dell Inc. to deliver integrated solutions to physicians, researchers, and institutions involved in Information Based Medicine. RemedyMD's Investigate™, a software suite specifically designed to enable clinical and translational research institutions to capture, integrate, and aggregate all the data ...

Houston’s University General Hospital Features Technologies That Prevent Medication Errors

Monday, February 25th, 2008

Houston's own University General Hospital places its commitment to patient safety at the forefront in making decisions regarding design and technology. Against the backdrop of a dramatic increase in the number of hospital medication errors in the last fifteen years, University General mitigates the risk of such events with an ...

Sniffing Out Insider Threats May Improve Public Safety, Prevent Terrorism

Saturday, February 23rd, 2008

A rapid way to spot insider threats from individuals within an organization such as a multinational company or military installation is reported in the current issue of the International Journal of Security and Networks. The technology uses data mining techniques to scour email and build up a picture of social ...

E-mail Access May Improve Patient-Surgeon Communication

Saturday, February 23rd, 2008

E-mail access to one's surgeon has can improve doctor-patient communication. Additionally, this seems to occur without affecting levels of patient satisfaction. This was reported on February 18, 2008 in Archives of Surgery, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. write the authors. E-mail has influenced industries worldwide, including banking and retail, but there ...

Google Partners With Cleveland Clinic To Allow Storage Of Patient Health Records Online

Saturday, February 23rd, 2008

Google and the Cleveland Clinic have partnered to launch a pilot program that will begin to store online the personal health records of patients, a "long-awaited health service that's likely to raise more concerns about the volume of sensitive information entrusted" to Google, the AP/Austin American-Statesman reports. The program will ...

E-mail Access May Improve Patient-Surgeon Communication

Friday, February 22nd, 2008

E-mail access to one's surgeon has can improve doctor-patient communication. Additionally, this seems to occur without affecting levels of patient satisfaction. This was reported on February 18, 2008 in Archives of Surgery, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. write the authors. E-mail has influenced industries worldwide, including banking and retail, but there ...